The East African Journal of Environment and Natural Resources estimated in a 2023 study that the invasion of water hyacinth ...

Hyacinths are a great garden plant because they are not only beautiful and fragrant, attracting all kinds of pollinators, but are also one of those perennials that keep coming back year after year.

(Here are more spring-flowering bulbs to plant now.) Hyacinths (Hyacinthus orientalis) flower on a single, upright stalk in ...

Water hyacinth is a free-floating perennial; one of the fastest-growing plants commonly known as Japan Jabara. The spread of ...

Hartbeespoort Dam is so polluted that a hyacinth mat covers the surface, making it dangerous for boaters and harming the ...

As company founder Joseph Nguthiru explains, the idea requires a shift in semantics, as Kenya has banned single-use plastics, ...

The plant was first sighted on Kenya's popular Lake Naivasha about 10 years ago. Now, it has become a large, glossy mat that ...

NAIVASHA, Kenya — For someone who fishes for a living, nothing says a bad day like spending over 18 hours on a lake and taking home nothing. Recently, a group of fishermen were said to be ...

The water hyacinth is native to South America and was reportedly introduced to Kenya in the 1980s “by tourists who brought it as an ornamental plant,” said Gordon Ocholla, an environmental ...

The water hyacinth is native to South America and was reportedly introduced to Kenya in the 1980s “by tourists who brought it as an ornamental plant,” said Gordon Ocholla, an environmental ...