If you enjoy collecting unusual tropical ornamentals for your garden, here’s a real attention getter: the chenille plant, Acalypha hispida, known as felpilla in Spanish, a plant native to Malaysia ...

The word chenille may conjure an image of a fabric with fuzzy ridges often used to make bedspreads. In French, the word means caterpillar. For many gardeners, however, the long red caterpillar-like ...