Dear Master Gardener: I would like to purchase purple shamrock plants to have as a table decoration for St. Patrick’s Day. How do I care for them? Can I plant them outside next summer? Answer: In ...

This is one part in a weekly series featuring the UC Davis Arboretum’s “40 Plants You (Probably) Have Never Heard of – But Will Love,” 40 can’t-fail, easy-care, low-water plants well adapted to our ...

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI -- The jade and the shamrock found each other by accident. Timothy Connors, a judge in the Washtenaw County Trial Court, had reused the dirt from a dead purple shamrock plant he ...