Over my many years of visiting various botanical gardens, arboretums and nurseries, I’ve developed a great fondness for and sense of amazement about this genus of plants. Almost every time our family ...

Even with this drawback, the hardier euphorbias are a good choice for our Inland Northwest gardens. They are drought resistant, so they do well in those hot, sunny spots in the garden that never seem ...

Winter is my favorite time to work in my succulent garden. It is nothing fancy because I place the plants haphazardly as I acquire them. One of those haphazard acquisitions was my Euphoribia tirucalli ...

The fairy circles of the Namib are one of nature's greatest mysteries. Millions of these circular barren patches extend over vast areas along the margins of the desert in Namibia. In 1979, G.K. Theron ...

Many people are familiar with Crown of Thorns, which also is called Christ's thorns, or Christ's plant. It is Euphorbia milii (synonym E. splendens), one of the oldest commonly grown houseplants in ...

Everybody in garden design is talking agaves. Retro modern folks are digging golden barrel cactus. We're even seeing fire stick euphorbia in pots of mixed perennials. While these new ventures into old ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Invasive plant species can have strong direct negative effects on native plants. Depending on the nature of interactions among competitors and ...