Since there was no newsletter last week, here are two weeks of mystery plants: Mexican Petunia --Ruellia simplex is a perennial plant that takes care of itself and blooms all summer long.

Late every summer, I’m amazed at how different my flower garden looks than it did in the spring. While I grow many perennials that produce beautiful blooms, the show-stoppers in my garden are often ...

A long time ago in my Birtle garden I grew tithonia and I always meant to grow this flower again but have never got around to it. It is a large plant I haven’t been willing to dedicate the space it ...

Talk about a butterfly magnet! Fiesta del Sol Mexican sunflower (Tithonia rotundifolia ‘Fiesta del Sol’) is just that. This truly dwarf Tithona grows only about 36 inches tall, much shorter than its ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 69, No. 5 (May - Jun., 1982), pp. 784-792 (9 pages) Twenty-four flavonoid compounds, including chalcones and aurones, are reported from 13 taxa of Tithonia. Pedunculin ...