With spring ever so close, the urge to have that beautiful garden color can seem nagging. Here are ways to force the start of ...

The elements of the outdoors that allow plants to thrive – light, warmth, and water – can all be brought indoors with a little creativity and the right resources.

There will soon be more time to spend outside enjoying the luxury of your balcony or even your beautiful courtyard garden. So ...

— Find a space to dry seeds, such as a barn, shed or greenhouse, well before it is needed. — Stock up on equipment, such as ...

Many of our favorite plants need to go through a cold period known as vernalization. Each species has its own particular ...

Next the researchers are working on soybeans and cowpeas; the latter is “a hugely important food-security crop in African ...

Rain is forecast for later this week, but Phoenix will need more than one storm to offset months of drought. With parched soils and plants, residents need to take extra care of their landscaping to ...

Warm season annuals will soon be replacing cool season annuals for another season of abundant floral color, texture and maybe even fragrance.

Plants survive climate change using genetic variations. Scientists studied Marchantia polymorpha to find key adaptation ...

Around this time every year in Prior Lake, lakeside residents are deputized as lookouts. Their job: to keep an eye on the surface of the lake. “We do use volunteers for this program,” Jamie ...

Alpine plants, fragile and adapted to live in a limited ecosystem, may be the canary in the coal mine of climate change.