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 ...

Q: How do I eradicate four o’clock plants? The previous owner of my house planted them everywhere.Marshall Jones, email A: This is another plant, like clerodendrum and sweet autumn clematis, that has ...

HARTFORD — There was little left to hold on to in the charred ruins of Dr. William Petit Jr.’s burned home in Cheshire. A fire set there during the deadly 2007 home invasion that killed his wife, ...