Hardy fuschias waiting to be planted since the Canby plant sale in the ground: check Miscellaneous sundry plants acquired in the past few weeks in the ground: check If I keep this up, what am I going ...

Q: I want to grow the huge, gorgeous red-leafed plants I've seen on my neighbors' stoops. But I've been told they are ricinus, the plant that was used to assassinate the Bulgarian dissident Georgi I.

I was looking at the delightfully spiky fruit of a castor bean plant recently, and speaking to the horticulturist who grows them where I work at Washington State University. Castor bean plants are an ...