Ahead, we asked an expert to share their best tips for growing, caring for, and harvesting your own Chinese lantern plants. Related: Garden Terminology 101: A Guide for Beginners Getty / Alexandra ...

Chinese Lanterns generally grow to a height of 2 feet, producing pointed green leaves. In spring, small white flowers appear which develop into large green, balloon-shaped husks.

The Chinese lantern (Physalis alkekengi) is one plant you definitely want in your garden. This hardy perennial is also known as the winter cherry or the bladder cherry and grows in hardiness zones ...

Q. We saw a flower arrangement at a hotel that included the Chinese lantern plant (Physalis franchetii var. gigantee). We checked with local plant places before ordering seeds online. Will we have ...

With our warmer than usual temperatures – although not today or tomorrow – there are plenty of plants and shrubs still giving us some really gorgeous Beautiful Blooms to share with our readers.

One of my favourite and yet most frustrating plants is the Chinese lantern (Physalis alkengii). What I love about it: The plant is grown for its very colourful, bright orange seed pods that ...

Q: My home is inundated by a plant that has little "pouches" on them. I am quite sure my mother used to have a similar plant she referred to as a Japanese lantern. However, Mom's "pouches" turned ...

At Sprout Home, we just received our delivery of pumpkins. As soon as I saw the truck pull up the first thing that came to my mind (other than the obvious excitement to unload the pumpkins) was ...