With March now upon us, St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner. But Leprechauns, green beer and pots of gold aside, there is another traditional symbol associated with the ...

With St. Patrick’s Day approaching, grocery stores and nurseries will be selling “shamrocks." As someone of Irish descent, I ...

Four-leaf clovers, aside from being considered good luck, are said to be symbols of faith, love, hope and good fortune.

Shamrock vs. clover: what's the difference? All shamrocks are clovers, but not all clovers are shamrocks. How can that be, you ask? Clover is the common name for plants of the genus Trifolium ...

Shamrock farmer, Joe Sugrue has spent about four decades working at the Co. Kerry site best known for exporting to the US and ...

Anglicized to shamrock, means "young clover" and that is where the problem begins. Even here in Ireland, different species of clover (and even other related plants) are pinned to our breasts on St ...

While the shamrock is synonymous with Irish culture, its cousin, the white clover, is making waves in the world of ...

Patricia HanbidgeOrchid HorticultureLast week we focused on the shamrock plant and how important the clover leaf is to the ...

By most accounts, the original shamrock is thought to be either yellow clover (Trifolium dubium) or white clover (Trifolium repens). Both plants have three oval green leaflets with tiny ...

AD, a missionary who earlier assumed the name Patricius, arrived in Ireland with the objective of converting the Celtic Irish to Christianity. Legend has it that he used a small, three-leafed plant to ...

Around St. Patrick’s Day, grocery stores or floral shops sell “shamrock” plants. This imposter is a plant from the genus Oxalis, a member of the wood sorrel family. It hails from mountainous regions ...