Not having a television, I was unaware (until someone mentioned it) that there’s a Wisteria Lane that holds a special place in the prime-time lineup.

Wisteria may or may not have a special place in your heart, but it will have a big place in your yard if you don’t keep an eye (and a pruner) out. Notorious for its rapid growth and strangling potential, wisteria is a plant to be reckoned with.

True or False?

Sharpen your pencils, it is the season for final exams. But don’t worry too much: this is an open-book test (if Nature can be said to be an open book).

Given my druthers, I will always choose to take tests outdoors, where true and false describe two varieties of lily of the valley flowers.

These little flowers make me want to break out in rowdy song.

The originator of the raucous tune swimming around in my head was the band The Foundations, who found their inspiration in its diminutive yellow blooms. I know that you can’t help but sing loud; you know the words!

“Why do you build me up (Build me up)

Buttercup baby just to

let me down (Let me down)

And mess me around

So much for love!

I wouldn’t have been flattered to have received the token of love that Zeus bestowed on his mistress Io. In his haste to hide his affair from his wife, Hera, he turned his beloved Io into a heifer. Holy cow — what an unromantic move!

There was a time (and a place) when it was very wise to tiptoe through the tulips.

It was in Holland during the 1630s, when tulips were all the rage, a time when the mere possession of this bodacious bulb could put your life in danger and thieving of them from the garden was rampant. In fact, the tulip craze, called tulipmania, was not only dangerous to your person but also a threat to your fortune and future.

Pollinators, start your engines!

I am hoping for a bounteous blueberry crop this year. Though only time will tell, we can get a hint as to what is to come by looking at the spring flowers that the blueberry bushes have started to produce.