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 ...

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 ...

If you want to add some botany and some poetry to your science, why not try something that was first proposed by Carolus Linnaeus? You can have a zero-carbon-footprint clock made of flowers. What ...

Q: How do I eradicate four o’clock plants? The previous owner of my house planted them everywhere.Marshall Jones, email A: This is another plant, like clerodendrum and sweet autumn clematis, that has ...

FAIRHOPE, Alabama-- A city known for its flowers will have a new, large-scale floral attraction in coming weeks as construction is under way on a 30-foot-round, landscaped clock. Fairhope Public Works ...

It isn’t just the stunning colours — reds, magentas and yellows—that set the Mirabilis jalapa apart, it’s also the fact that they help you tell time—precisely, when it’s 4 pm Time for me to go home, ...