On Saturday, January 10, Kaul Wildflower Garden Curator John Manion leads "Understanding Botanical Names" at Birmingham Botanical Gardens. The class, part of the Certificate in Native Plant Studies ...

Latin might seem like an obscure, inscrutable language for naming plants. But it can open up the botanical world in ways you can’t imagine. By Margaret Roach The plants are trying to tell us something ...

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems to me that Texans pronounce words differently than many others. When I look at an unfamiliar word, I pronounce it, at least in my mind, as it appears, syllable by ...