If you think ants in the kitchen and violets in the yard are not a good thing, you are right on one. Ants are unwelcomed parades across a kitchen counter or floor. Violets, however, are bright spots ...

Roses are red. Violets are blue. But sometimes they can be yellow, too. Or even white. Roughly 20 species of violets grow in Illinois, and many have heart-shaped leaves with five petals on blooms ...

Juliette Gaynor-Brown was out walking in Tasmania's Ben Lomond National Park when she came across a small purple flower on the side of the track. "I take photos of everything because I like plants," ...

As signs of summer begin to establish, we notice the showers of spring bringing more than just flowers. Grasses, weeds, and general overgrowth seem to appear almost overnight. Bustling automobiles add ...

Plant it and they will come. Believe it or not, it really is that simple when it comes to butterfly host plants. Scatter dill seeds among your lovely pink cosmos, and soon you’ll see swallowtails.

Mid-May is prime time for violets, with different native wild violets blooming in wet and dry places in Westborough. At one extreme, marsh blue violet (Viola cucullata) grows in wet, swampy ...

Endemic to Hawaii, ­ Viola chamissoniana has a delicate flower and a woody stem. There are seven to nine species of Viola, depending on the authority, in Hawaii. They can be found on all the main ...

Even if you’ve never seen violets growing wild, you probably have a mental image of them. Low-growing plants with heart-shaped leaves and pretty dark blue flowers, right? Well, that’s true for a ...

SINGAPORE – On the morning of Jan 3, Mr Andy Chew set off for the Hampstead Wetlands Park in Seletar, in search of the violet turaco. Though the bird is native to the tropical forests of West Africa, ...