Dear Master Gardener: A friend mentioned putting in calamint, which she said is a white catmint. It’s confusing — are calamint, catmint and catnip related or are they all different species?

Catmint (Nepeta) is a genus of perennial ornamental herbs in the mint family that also includes catnip (Nepeta cataria). These easy-to-grow plants have slightly aromatic gray-green foliage with a ...

One of many major benefits of growing catmint near your rose bushes is that catmint (Nepeta) can hide the legginess and ...

Criterion (iii): The Persian Qanat system is an exceptional testimony to the tradition of providing water to arid regions to support settlements. The technological and communal achievements of the ...

What's the Persian alphabet like? Have a go at spelling out your name and perhaps your address in Persian. Here's the alphabet and how to pronounce it.

Persian is spoken today primarily in Iran, but was historically a more widely understood language in an area ranging from the Middle East to India. Significant populations of speakers in other Persian ...

Millions of people around the world have celebrated Nowruz - a festival that marks the Persian New Year and the official beginning of spring. Nowruz begins at the spring equinox, when the sun ...

Peanut the Squirrel's life was snuffed out in Pine City, New York recently in what some say may have been a case of ...

Discover which Persian words we use in English and other facts about the language. Also available in Persian with audio.

Asian refiners do not appear to be overly concerned. They “remain confident” that the war will not disrupt flows of oil from the Persian Gulf to their facilities, believing both Israel and ...

So far, 2024 has seen enormous upheaval in the evolution of the war between Iran and Israel, so often fought in the shadows. An anti-Israel sign is displayed in Tehran's Palestine Square on ...