If your garden is new, get to know it by noting where the light is falling and the soil conditions throughout the year — ...

Our gardens often have evergreen and deciduous plants at this time of the year. This distinction results from evolution, ...

Aglaonemas, or Chinese evergreens, have always been one of my favorite houseplants for lots of reasons: they have luscious ...

Tromping through our woods in December in search of a Christmas tree, I often notice an evergreen fern, one of the few green plants on the forest floor this time of year, other than young conifers. An ...

This herbaceous perennial plant has spiny leaves and flower spikes bearing white or purplish flowers. The size varies from ...

Some would argue that no Christmas tablescape is complete until poinsettias take center stage. These red, white and pink ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Colony surveys of common murres, an Alaskan seabird, show the full effects of the 2014-16 marine heat wave known as 'the blob.' Analysis of 13 colonies surveyed between 2008 and ...

Leukemia is a type of cancer that interferes with normal blood clotting and places other stresses on the body, including the skin. A leukemia rash can occur in the early stages when tiny blood vessels ...

Deep genome sequencing and comprehensive phenotyping of 294 samples of hexaploid sweet potato identify genomic loci with an increase in the number of copies of alleles that enhance the expression ...

When I lived in a smaller apartment, I didn’t put much thought into hanging up family photos, mostly because I didn’t have the wall space. Once I moved into a larger home, though, the art I ...

Ball warns that renewal and rejuvenation pruning only apply to blooming shrubs that have numerous canes. Don’t try it with tree-like shrubs with few stems, or evergreen shrubs such as yews or ...