Gardeners get to play God when it comes to weeds. We choose who can stay and who must go. Here at the garden, our hillside is like a blank canvas constantly being painted by a variety of artists.

There’s a relatively unknown summer wildflower that is found abundantly on the roadsides and meadows of the Southwest, although not so much in Santa Fe gardens. Proboscidea althaeifolia (perennial) ...

For a small Amazonian frog called Rhinella proboscidea, death is no impediment to sex. The males form huge mating balls in which dozens of individuals compete to fertilise a female. These competitions ...