Small evergreen shrubs make your yard look great in every season. Dwarf evergreens also provide benefits for birds and ...

The flowers appear in late winter to early spring. Look for dwarf varieties of this shrub if you’re short on space. Catmint is the ideal low-maintenance perennial for any garden setting.

This blanket of shrublands and dense juniper woods gobbling up grassland leads to wildfires with towering flames that dwarf those generated in prairie fires ... 12-year-old Bella carries a pair of ...

and pollinator-friendly plants. In the Southeast, the toughest growing season for plants is summer. “Fall planting is ideal in warm to hot climates because it provides the longest window of good ...

Coming fall rains will water whatever you plant. Unlike in spring, where plants will quickly become stressed by the heat, things you plant in fall have lots of time to establish themselves before ...

Sow sweetpeas now in a cold frame or outdoors protected from mice and slugs, and you will have big, strong plants and early ...

Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...

A lot of people think of plants as passive but they have their own way of interacting with each other. The idea has been around for a while, even inspiring Hollywood movies like Avatar.

Oct. 3, 2024 — Pockets of microbes have been found living within a sealed fracture in 2-billion-year-old rock. The rock was excavated from the Bushveld Igneous Complex in South Africa, an area ...

Plants get a GMO glow-up: Genetically modified varieties coming out of the lab and into homes and gardens by James W. Satterlee, The Conversation The Norfolk purple tomato is colorful to the core.