For the past few cold wet weeks I have been collecting and sowing Schefflera seed, a process that will continue right into the depths of winter. Umbrella trees, as Scheffleras are commonly known, come ...

Instead of calling many plants by their botanical names we often use common names that have developed over the years. This phenomenon usually occurs with quite ordinary plants that are popular and ...

Growth habit: An evergreen upright plant that gradually grows to a rounded, multistem shrub more than 12 feet tall and wide in consistently warm climates. The shrub grows to about half this size in ...