Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pergola with a table underneath set for dinner - Johner Images/Getty Images Wild cucumber kind of looks like the perfect garden ...

Streptopus amplexifolius has long been one of my favorite plants to munch. In the spring, I like to pick the curled leaves with their strong English cucumber flavor. At the end of July, they develop ...

There is timing for all plants — including weeds — to be conspicuous at certain seasons in a natural landscape. In autumn, one such attractive weed that has become more prominent in recent years is ...

At one time or another most gardeners have found a “strange” plant growing in their garden or landscape that they did not ...

Citizens concerned about the increased presence of wild cucumber have reportedly been calling the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and County Agricultural Inspector over the past three weeks about ...

Pamela B. Weatherbee writes in her “Flora of Berkshire County, Massachusetts” that the wild cucumber “Can be aggressive, swarming over other vegetation.” And how very correct she is. For a number of ...

It was a warm day (upper 70s) in August, mostly clear and calm, when I drove on a county road not far from home. I had noticed plenty of wildflowers blooming along the roadsides during these summer ...