It was a hoot watching gardeners fight over the papyrus plants at this year's garden and patio shows. Botanically speaking, the papyrus is Cyperus papyrus. If you remember your elementary history, ...

In recent years, Queen Tut papyrus has become one of my favorite thriller plants for my mixed container designs. If you are ...

Unlike earlier writing materials like clay tablets, papyrus paper was lightweight, flexible, and easy to store. It ...

Discover Queen Tut papyrus, a 'thriller plant' that adds art and architecture to your garden containers and beds.

Imagine hot summer nights along the Nile. That great river's edges are lined with thickets of papyrus, a bullrush of singular beauty that has become inextricable from the aesthetic of ancient Egypt.

In ancient times, Cyperus Papyrus, commonly known as Papyrus, grew along the Nile River. The Egyptians had many uses for the plant, including making baskets, furniture, boats, and ropes. Also known as ...

Humans have used the papyrus sedge for millennia. The Ancient Egyptians wrote on it, it can be made into highly buoyant boats, it is grown for ornamentation and parts can even be eaten. Now ...

The plant: Several years back I went on a tour featuring horticulture businesses in the Valley. We stopped at the “office” of award-winning interior plant designer Ray Brooks, known as the boojum tree ...

John Gaudet looks and sounds like he could have walked right out of a Graham Greene novel, or maybe written one of those classic African explorer books. Seventeen years on the continent for the Rhode ...

For the first time in a hundred years, archaeologists excavating in Saqqara, Egypt, have discovered a 16-meter-long ancient papyrus, as reported first by Arkeonews. A woman looks at papyrus on March 6 ...

Humans have used the papyrus sedge for millennia. The Ancient Egyptians wrote on it, it can be made into highly buoyant boats, it is grown for ornamentation and parts can even be eaten. Now, writing ...