A FEW days into the New Year, the outside thermometer registered 16F. The garden looked absolutely beautiful with the lawn, perennial grasses and seedheads rimed with a thick silvery crust of frost, ...

STEPHEN RYAN: As I mentioned earlier, we all want good flowering plants in the winter, and for me, none is better than 'Winter Sweet,' Chimonanthus praecox . Chimonanthus actually means winter ...

Some time ago this column featured a certain pine tree called “Pond Pine” that grows in the Southeast in places we call “pocosins.” You might remember that a pocosin is a peat-based, very shrubby ...

It is not that I have been patient with my Chimonanthus praecox so much as oblivious. I planted it a long time ago and forgot about it – which is very easy to do. In summer it is an open leafy ...

China: flowers thoroughly boiled, washed and eaten with oil and salt.