When Melissa Rosen of Highland Park learned early Tuesday morning that Sprout the corpse flower was blooming at the Chicago Botanic Garden, she decided to take advantage of an unusual opportunity.

Internet searches offered the origin story: A British company called Tozer Seeds developed the hybrid and sold it exclusively at department store Marks & Spencer in 2010, under the name Flower Sprouts ...

Bad news for children: the first new vegetable in almost ten years is ready to hit the shops - and it's a sprout. With their intense cabbage-like flavour, Brussels sprouts have long been pushed ...

In terms of vegetables worth planting in your home garden, Brussels sprouts are a reliable bet: They’re fairly easy to grow, and benefit from being placed alongside certain companion plants. Companion ...

A focus on`plants instead of celebrity and lifestyle’ White Flower Farm catalog hopes its new venture will come up roses. Following the lead of catalogers such as Williams-Sonoma, which launched the ...

Sprout is out! Its rare, rotten odor has already drawn dozens of flower fans to Glencoe. The smell will dissipate throughout the day until after sundown, when Sprout will start to stink again as it ...

Grappling with the magnitude of a toxic $40 billion worldwide floriculture industry is a subculture of flower growers, flower arrangers and studio florists who would much prefer we use our buying ...

Spring is in full swing, ushering in warm weather, sunny skies and colorful flowers. Delight Flower Farm is one of the sources of the bountiful blossoms in Champaign-Urbana. While the acreage is ...

Stop and smell the roses – and all the other flowers – this weekend at the inaugural Electric City Flower Show. Set for Saturday, Aug. 6, the show will take place across Scranton’s Nay Aug Park from ...

Even as most of the state was under a thick blanket of snow, Kristie Gonsalves' attention was on a large patch of green grass -- 2,600 square feet to be exact. Since the fall, Gonsalves has been ...