Four o'clock plants (Mirabilis jalapa) truly live up to their name. They got their moniker from the fact that their flowers don't open until late afternoon and last into the night. The plants are also ...

This time-lapse shown 84 days of growing a four o'clock plant from a seed to flowers. A seed was sown into a pot with soil.

If you're looking to add a pop of bright pink to your container garden with a pretty flower that will also attract hummingbirds, look no further than the whimsical four o'clocks. Botanically known as ...

When we moved into our house, it came with a half-acre yard. Thirty years passed and before we realized, our trees grew into towering giants encompassing our back yard. The four-o’clock turns out to ...

There are lots of beautiful new flowers and plants that are promoted each year to the gardener by various vendors and gardening magazines. We all get taken in by these potential new contributions to ...

Few people are witness to the abundance of miracles unfolding each midsummer in Coconino County — where glorious fields of sunflowers reach for azure skies, thunderheads tower to an altitude of 60,000 ...

Desert Four O'Clock will die down naturally this fall (if it hasn't already) and at that point you can cut the foliage off at ground level. Actually, you usually don't even have to do that. The dry ...

BOISE, Idaho — It's fun to enjoy a sunny flower garden with an assortment of colorful blooming flowers that give off wonderful scents and attract butterflies and hummingbirds. But did you know there ...

Deer in a neighborhood are a blessing and a curse. They’re wonderful to watch and observe, but they can be hell on gardens. Here are some suggestions for colorful, blooming plants that usually are not ...