Q. Often the daffodils in our yard come up in the spring and have vigorous stems, but some don’t bloom. What are the possible causes for this and what can we do to overcome it? We live in Williamsburg ...

We often call many of our spring perennial flowers bulbs. However, botanically speaking, not everything we call a bulb is a true bulb. For example, is an iris a bulb? A corm? Or something else, such ...

Nothing announces the arrival of spring better than a flower garden full of colorful and fragrant blooms. The plants that grace these gardens come from either seeds or bulbs. So if seeds and bulbs ...

Fall is the season to plant spring bulbs. But what is a bulb? It's an underground organ with a short, fleshy stem with either a growing point at the top, or a flower bud enclosed by thick, fleshy ...

Self-denial isn’t in my nature, especially when it comes to plants. Earlier this week, when I made a quick trip to a DIY store for a paint roller, all appreciation of prudence and economy vanished at ...

It’s great to see our usual February thaw arrive a bit early this year, actually during the tail end of January. Is spring really here already? If you’ve lived here long enough, you know the drill; we ...

Sarah Stewart-Clark, a researcher at Charlottetown's Atlantic Veterinary College, works on a tunicate in her lab. ((Maggie Brown/CBC)) Maritime fishermen will soon be able to test harbours and bays ...