Our growing season isn’t long enough to produce ripe banana fruits, but the plant is so sturdy and the leaves so big that it’s worth growing just for the giant foliage.

The leaves can be up to 6 inches long and 2 inches wide with pointed tips, and attachment is alternate. Large bellwort is a spring-blooming wildflower native to Ohio.

In its first year of growth, the common mullein forms a large basal rosette with its large leaves that can grow up to 1 foot long (30.5 cm). The plants grow well in disturbed landscapes, such as ...

Its leaves are remarkably large, and it is no exaggeration to say that of all the plants of North America with simple leaves, this species has the largest, sometimes easily more than 3 feet long.

These large, long-lived trees support more life-forms than any other trees in North America. And they’re magnificent. By Margaret Roach When I arrived years ago at the piece of land I now garden ...

Century plants in bloom, with their lofty flower spike, grow a couple feet each day and reach more than 20 feet high. The blooms are amazing to see, if you are lucky enough to come across one. You … ...

The Plant Doctor Tom MacCubbin shares advice about how best to control lubber grasshoppers, how to grow hollyhocks in Florida and what bulbs grow best in the Sunshine State.