If you’re a female moth, finding the best plant to host your young may be as simple as taking a close listen. When low on water, some plants make high-pitched clicking noises, inaudible to humans.

Del Monte Foods will not operate their huge tomato processing plant in the Hanford Industrial Park this coming season, workers with the Teamsters Union have been told. Instead 400-500 full-time ...

One industry body says a combination of an earlier and warmer start to the season, industry over-expansion and a tomato virus have all been contributing factors. Growers say the industry will have ...

USES Understorey plant in a woodland or cottage garden, as an informal hedge, to provide colour in shady areas, and for cut flowers. BEST CLIMATE/POSITION Cool to Tropical, in a semi-shaded position.

By Jancee Dunn I was on the phone with a friend the other day, and because I can’t sit still, I started to dust the leaves on my sprawling bird of paradise plant. This is nice, I thought ...