This shows British monkey flowers: North and South American parents (A = M. guttatus (yellow monkey flower); B = M. luteus (blood-drop emlets)), the sterile hybrid (C), and the new species (D). Scale ...

Plumeria is a tropical flowering plant native to Brazil, Mexico and the Caribbean. Common names include plumeria and frangipani. The flowers are commonly used to make the flower leis in Hawaii. There ...

The Sticky-Sweet Odor of citrus blossoms is wafting on the spring breezes this year, as it has in every year since the 1870s, when the county’s first commercially planted orange and lemon groves began ...

Today’s column is about a California native shrub that widely available and a fine addition to the garden. The plant is the Sticky Monkey Flower (Mimulus aurantiacus, or Diplacus aurantiacus). Its ...

If you are deciding to go native, you can’t go wrong with the monkey flower. Whimsical, flowery and cheerful, the monkey flower is a garden greeter. Some say it looks like a monkey, but personally, ...