Many gardeners today are interested in native plants because their blossoms provide food for pollinators. However, ...
Roses, fruit trees and bushes and hedging plants are often sold as “bare root” plants. These woody plants lose their leaves in winter and become dormant. They are then dug out and sold without ...
For over a century, scientists have studied myrmecochory, a phenomenon where ants transport seeds to their nests. In this ...
Dec. 12, 2024 — Scientists have today announced the discovery of a species of lipstick vine completely new to science, from the depths of the Philippine rainforest. ...
These plants clothe walls and supports in foliage and flowers. Climbers cling on using tendrils, twining stems, stem roots or sticky pads, while wall shrubs need to be tied to supports. Plants can be ...
Plants don’t have lungs to inhale and exhale the air that blows around them, but they do, in their own way, ‘breathe’ in and out oxygen and carbon dioxide. Here you can discover how plants carry out ...
Is your landscape’s water garden looking more like a fish pond than a garden? Are your container water gardens full of water but missing, you know, the actual plants? To help get you started, we have ...
Plant genetics deals with heredity in plants, specifically mechanisms of hereditary transmission and variation of inherited characteristics. Plant genetics differs from animal genetics in a number ...
A mass of glossy oval leaves on tree-like branching stems, the money plant (Crassula ovata) is one of the most distinctive indoor plants. It is prized in China and across the globe by practitioners of ...
A high-fiber, plant-based diet showed potential to delay progression to multiple myeloma in a Memorial Sloan Kettering study, with no participants developing cancer after one year. The findings ...