From golden yellow in spring to fiery red and orange in autumn, this compact Abelia brings dramatic, every-changing color to the garden. Few shrubs are as versatile in the landscape as Abelia. These ...

A joint research team has discovered a new molecular switch that determines when plant leaves begin to age. The research team has identified for the first time a new mechanism in which RNA made from ...

As winter hands off to early spring, the pots can be replaced again with tulips, hyacinths, daffodils, and other ...

For tens of thousands of years, humans have observed the minute seasonal changes that make or break a harvest. Now, for the first time, satellites have caught up. A study published this week in Nature ...

Johanna Schmitt, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, is a plant geneticist and evolutionary ecologist. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) How can plants adapt to their environment, and how will ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Another week has passed with insignificant rainfall (in most areas) which means ...

After walking through the lush forest along the Saco River, it would be easy to overlook two tiny shrubs bursting from the gravel on the river’s bank. The silverling and the hudsonia, already rare ...