The colors of the late summer garden are mostly brilliant purples, reds, oranges and yellows. Turtlehead is an easy-to-grow perennial plant native to our area whose late summer flowers provide a ...

Native turtlehead plants that grow in damp places in Westborough bring us fall blossoms, old-fashioned fun, and a summer butterfly. In early September, turtlehead ( Chelone glabra)blossoms open on ...

Among the blooming perennials of late summer is one that guards its secrets closely. The lockbox blossoms of white turtlehead (Chelone glabra), a native plant in the plantain family, are an ideal ...

As many gardeners know there has been a recent trend to use plants that are native to your region in your landscape. As many gardeners know there has been a recent trend to use plants that are native ...

When I was younger, I wanted to try new, weird flowers in my front yard. I looked down on hostas and day lilies and the like. Now being older and wiser, I appreciate anything that I can plant and ...

* What it is: Turtlehead is a U.S.-native perennial flower that blooms late summer to early fall. Flowers spikes are white or pink with shield-shaped little bloom clusters that some say remind them of ...

Don’t look now, but Maryland’s state insect is fluttering away. The Baltimore Checkerspot butterfly, named for the state’s founding Calvert family, has dwindled to just a handful of places, mostly in ...

Sing a chorus of “New York, New York” for the wood frogs of Cunningham Park, Queens. Especially the part about if they can make it here, they’ll make it anywhere. All indications are that the reddish ...

Tramping through 100 yards of tall grass on a recent humid, sticky afternoon, Susan Muller could see her triumph clearly. There, perched on a green thistle, was a beautiful Baltimore checkerspot ...