A botanist at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Steven Clemants, took the The New York Sun’s Hana Alberts on a walking tour of Lower Manhattan’s flora. Using binoculars, he talked about how European weeds ...

Each spring, I like to visit a gardener friend of mine whose neatly tended beds are her pride and joy. She’s rather traditional and prefers a very structured, mannered approach while I tend to be more ...

Mugwort has long been used for its potential health benefits. This includes digestive relief and arthritis reduction. Mugwort uses range from insect repellent and as an ingredient in alcohol to a ...

Miniscule mugwort flowers are this extremely invasive plant’s last—and very effective—hurrah before frost arrives and turns the tall, woody stems of Artemisia vulgaris into brittle, dry sticks. Over ...