The Gathering Garden Magazine

The papery bloom Victorians called the immortelle isn't really a flower at all in the way we think of one—and that botanical trick is exactly why it started a 200-year-old dried flower obsession.

Gomphrena carries a name borrowed from an ancient Greek myth about a flower that never existed, and a real history rooted 6,000 miles away in Central America and Southeast Asia. Both stories are worth knowing.

From Bronze Age medicine cabinets to your gin and tonic, juniper has a 5,000-year résumé. Here's the plant's real history — and how to bring its berries indoors.

Long before it was a Christmas wreath staple, the magnolia was the signature bloom of the American South. Here's its cultural history — and how to use a magnolia leaf wreath year-round.

The gardenia is named after an 18th-century Scottish botanist, carries a Victorian meaning of "secret love," and became a Southern corsage tradition made famous by Billie Holiday. Here's the story, plus how to bring its fragrance home.