Four-o'clock flowers bloom at the end of a summer day, extending your garden's beauty after dusk. Learn how to grow them.

Four o'clock plants (Mirabilis jalapa) truly live up to their name. They got their moniker from the fact that their flowers don't open until late afternoon and last into the night. The plants are also ...

When we moved into our house, it came with a half-acre yard. Thirty years passed and before we realized, our trees grew into towering giants encompassing our back yard. The four-o’clock turns out to ...

FAIRHOPE, Alabama-- A city known for its flowers will have a new, large-scale floral attraction in coming weeks as construction is under way on a 30-foot-round, landscaped clock. Fairhope Public Works ...

They’re called four o’clocks. This year I planted some from seed in my flower garden. Recently I had help trimming (chopping) down some trees while others assisted in cleaning out the winter’s debris ...

If you want to add some botany and some poetry to your science, why not try something that was first proposed by Carolus Linnaeus? You can have a zero-carbon-footprint clock made of flowers. What ...

Marvel of Peru or Mirabilis commonly called Four O’ Clock flowers originated in Peru and is native to tropical South America. Four O’clock is a bushy plant which thrives in full sun. Like its name, ...