Among the most brilliant of flowering trees are those in the Fabaceae, or legume, family of plants. Imagine, for example, a tree with long golden chains of five-petaled flowers, so profuse that they ...

This time last year, I was in northern Wales, waiting in line to see the peak of flowering on the laburnum trees. This year those gardens will have no such line. Still, they will bloom, with or ...

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IT not unfrequently happens that the passer-by in autumn is startled to find horse-chestnuts and other spring-flowering trees producing a second crop of flowers. A similar occurrence is not infrequent ...