Ever since Manhattan florist Max Schling brought some corms (bulbs) of wood sorrel (oxalis repens) from the Caucasus in 1906, the four-leaf clover has been an article of commerce. Its market: a small ...
If a leprechaun leaps from the faerie den this St. Patrick’s Day to ask if you know a shamrock from a clover, what will you answer? “If you said the shamrock is a clover, you’re in luck,” says ...
With St. Patrick’s Day approaching, grocery stores and nurseries will be selling “shamrocks.” As someone of Irish descent, I look forward to bringing home a plant from my ancestral homeland. Given my ...