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. Over a week later, a seedling came up and grew quickly to a bushy plant.

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 ...

Conserving water is important, especially in California’s ongoing drought. Water was precious when the United States was developing, too, and those who are looking for drought-tolerant plants should ...

Four o'clocks (Mirabilis jalapa) are bright, fragrant, attractive to pollinators, and you can grow them in containers. If you garden in a smaller space and want to enjoy these stunning plants, here is ...

They’re called four o’clocks. This year I planted some from seed in my flower garden. Recently I had help trimming (chopping) down some trees while others assisted in cleaning out the winter’s debris ...

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 ...

Q: I have seeds for four o'clock flowers that I helped my grandmother harvest 40 years ago. They are still in the little change purse she put them in. Is there any hope of them sprouting now? A: The ...

Loren Zeldin calls me and says I must come by right away and take a look at his elephant’s foot. No, Zeldin does not work for a zoo or a circus, and he does not have an ailing elephant. He has not ...

HARTFORD — There was little left to hold on to in the charred ruins of Dr. William Petit Jr.’s burned home in Cheshire. A fire set there during the deadly 2007 home invasion that killed his wife, ...