Households across the UK are being urged to plant spiky plants like roses and hawthorn before Christmas Day. Every Christmas, ...

While holly trees, or Ilex, are deemed to be some of the easiest evergreen trees to grow, if you have a specimen without ...

Here are just a few of the legends surrounding our most popular Christmas plants. This spiny shrub with scarlet red berries ...

Monika Mukherjee does not hesitate to climb the stairs to tend to her pots on the first floor, nor does she mind spending ...

Toxins: All parts of the plant contain grayanotoxins, which can cause damage to the skeletal and cardiac systems. Eating castor beans can kill your cat. Identifying features: Large, star-shaped ...

Barrel cactus is another large showstopper on its own, but it also works well when you plant smaller ones in bunches. You can line up these cactuses along a walkway or use their golden barrels along ...

Irritant contact dermatitis (ICD) from plants is a very common phenomenon as potentially irritant plants and plant products are commonly found in the everyday environment, including the home ...

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 ...

Spiky, tenacious, and hard to spot, goathead burs have burrowed into my shoes, my dog’s paws, and my West Texas home.

Ancient silver coin from Cyrene depicting silphium. Credit: Wikimedia Commons The researcher has noticed that both plants have the same thick branching root and yellow flowers. In addition, both have ...

Are the words you said. Joy and family are the reason. Fir, juniper, and pine. As we drink eggnog and wine. Mahonia is what ...