Ipomoea batatas These highly ornamental, fact growing vines have gained in popularity over the last few years since their introduction as trailing plants for pots and baskets. The plants have much to recommend them. Sweet potato vines make an outstanding visual impact.  They are striking in color ranging from chartreuse through dark purple to...

We’ve probably done this before but again the question has popped up as to what is the difference between bulbs, corms, tubers and rhizomes. Most of us know a bulb from a tuber and so we call a bulb a bulb and lump all the rest under tuber.  That’s fine. We all know what we...