The term flowering maple encompasses a wide range of tropical and subtropical plants in the mallow family, making the name a little misleading. Although they are not related to maple trees, their ...

Integrifolia varieties take their sweet time to come into their 40-foot-tall self, delaying flowering by many years, but that's a little price to pay to titivate a north-facing wall. Be prepared to ...

Once tulips and daffodils flower in the spring, you can cut off the faded bloom but leave the foliage to turn yellow so it ...

With little to no yard space, these Fairmount neighbors instead create elaborate arrangements of flowers and plants in pots, ...

The autumn garden can be as colourful as the summer one, but it’s not only the brilliance of flowering plants like rudbeckia ...

Flowering plants, or angiosperms, make up about 90% of all living plant species, including most food crops. In the distant past, they outpaced plants such as conifers and ferns, which predate them ...

Q: How do I overwinter an outdoor water garden in a trough? It has with two water lilies, King Tut grass, goldfish and an ...

That's relatively recent in geologic time: If all Earth's history were compressed into an hour, flowering plants would exist for only the last 90 seconds. But once they took firm root about 100 ...

Unlike animals, plants don’t need a male and a female because their flowers have both male parts and female parts. Pollen in plants is like sperm in animals. It comes from the male part of the ...

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Q. Hi! My hydrangea was big and blue and beautiful this summer for the first year. Tell me, do I cut off the dead flowers right now, and should I cut back the shrub within the next month so that it ...