The Gathering Garden Magazine
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Broom Corn: The Sorghum Variety That Built an American Industry, Now on Everyone's Mantel
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Benjamin Franklin is the reason broom corn grows in American fields at all, or so the story goes: a whisk broom imported from India supposedly had ... -
The Flower the Greeks Called Unfading: Gomphrena's Borrowed Name and Real History
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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.
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Dahlia Mania: The Victorian Obsession Behind Mexico's National Flower
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Dahlias were an Aztec food crop before they triggered a 19th-century European breeding obsession. The real history, plus a fresh-dahlia care guide.
