One of the joys of gardening is the ability to experience new things each growing season. Sometimes it’s a new cultivar or variety of a plant that you have grown for years. Or perhaps new colors on ...

All black-thumbed people out there, take note: The ground-cherry is your friend. I should know. I accepted the offer to take over The Chronicle's gardening column with a sense of impending doom. I'm a ...

It’s pretty clear that Americans are tomato-crazy — a summer garden without tomato plants is as likely as the Fourth of July without flags. So why isn’t there more interest in their Physalis plant ...

Q: I'm looking for information about ground cherry, whether it is possible to grow it in Northern California, and if so, how to do it. My friends and I ate it all the time in my childhood back in ...

Ground cherry Physalis angulata. This picture was sent to me for identification via the newspaper column. Without seeing the plant in person and opening up the papery pod, I am guessing it is ground ...