It’s a botanical event more than 17 years in the making at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. That is where a desert-native ...

Taste the leaves before making that salad, though. Once the flower stalk has emerged, it’s too late. If you don’t pull out the plant, the seeds will mature and you can collect them for next ...

One reader, Cathy, wrote to me with a photo of her rhubarb’s new flower stalk, asking me if this is normal. This is called bolting when a plant such as rhubarb or lettuce produces flowers before ...