PHOENIX - A normal saguaro normally blooms from the top. But across southern Arizona and parts of the Valley, people are seeing something strange: flowers blooming down the stem. "We are seeing an ...

From living stones to wandering dudes, Linda Piegl looks at strangely named plants and how to grow them in your garden.

There are so many reasons to love daffodils. These spring-blooming bulbs aren’t fussy about where they are planted. They come back to bloom again year after year and are not bothered by deer, rabbits, ...

Provincialism is always a conflicted issue in Irish literature, as it’s both the source of its practitioners’ unique genius and a constraint against which they rebel. By looking inward, Irish writers ...

Each month, we will pick a new Irish book or a great book by an Irish author and celebrate the amazing ability of the Irish to tell a good story for IrishCentral's Book Club. Throughout January, we’ll ...

The late William Trevor could write stories so vivid it was like flash photography. Boom, they leapt to life, filled with so much recognizable detail and color it was like an indelible thumbprint or a ...