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 ...

This time-lapse shown 84 days of growing a four o'clock plant from a seed to flowers. A seed was sown into a pot with soil.

A town's floral clock display will be replanted with flowers after a furious row erupted when volunteers concreted it over because no one was prepared to water it. Locals in Weston-super-Mare were ...

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 ...

Melbourne’s floral clock was installed in 1966 after it was donated by the watchmakers of Switzerland. Around 5,500 plants are used to create the clock face while there are a further 3,000 flowers in ...

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 ...