If planted in the perennial garden, ribbon grass is a bully, spreading through rhizomes, often choking out its desirable ...

Japanese researchers have devised a way to find out: Make the plant transparent. With a chemical bath, they reduce the plant’s visible chlorophyll, the pigment that makes it green. Days to weeks ...

If you have a penchant for unusual plants, you may have heard of the ... what makes these perennials unique – they turn mostly transparent in the rain, leaving just their veining (or 'skeleton ...