Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... What: This low-growing lavender-colored wildflower is one of the first to peep out on open, rocky slopes in the spring — sometimes around Easter or Passover.

It’s been a long time — long before there was a La Crosse River Trail — since I saw my first pasque flower; I can’t even remember how old I was. It’s a lead-pipe cinch, though, that I was no more than ...

Plants growing in a gravel garden - Photos By R A Kearton/Getty Images There are some plants that cannot grow without the perfect soil, and then there are those plants that seem happiest in the least ...