Young male deer with beginners of antlers eating a plant inside of a garden - Laszlo Podor/Getty Images Unlike their animated counterparts, real deer aren't welcome guests in most gardens as they're ...

Cuban oregano has a flavor similar to true oregano and looks like coleus. RONNA GRADUS MIAMI HERALD STAFF An herb that will grow in South Florida gardens even in summer is Cuban oregano, Plectranthus ...

On the way from Jhang to Toba Tek Singh, we stopped for a cup of tea and a delicious, savoury treat known as ajwaain pakorray or carom seed fritters. Later, I learnt that the fritters did not contain ...

A reader was given a plant labeled Cuban/Mexican oregano (Plectranthus amboinicus) and wonders if it's really a culinary herb. But here's the real question: What is oregano, anyway? Plants in the ...

So you’re looking for the perfect oregano plant to provide the Italian herb of your dreams. It’s not as easy as you might think. This year, I asked Billi Parus, president of the Tidewater Unit of the ...

Q. I live in Lahore and maintain a small kitchen garden on the balcony of my house. I grow a number of daily-use aromatic herbs. The last few years, my Cuban oregano plant was thriving. But over the ...

There’s botanic nomenclature — the systematic classification and naming of plants — and then there’s what I like to think of as plant commonclature. Nothing could be less systematic than how humans, ...