Living fences are an organic privacy alternative to plastic and wood. Plant them right, and they'll attract birds and pollinators to your yard, too.

Soil is a living, diverse, and complex ecosystem that contains nutrients for plant growth. Dirt is a mix of sand, silt, and clay that can’t support plant growth. Dirt is not an ecosystem and doesn’t ...

Follow these steps when dividing irises. Using a shovel or spade, carefully remove the iris from the ground. Try to lift the ...

The monarch butterfly is widely recognized and widely dispersed across North America and it's in trouble. Federal officials ...

Cockscomb flowers are a type of celosia, a plant with unique inflorescences—a.k.a. many-flowered spikes. These ...

As a child, Tunisia Wales loved stealing flowers from her neighbour’s yard in Boaz Island, Sandys. The young Ms Wales would ...

This year has been filled with extreme and drastic weather, from record-breaking heat to long-lasting drought. All these changes in the weather have left trees and plants a bit confused and stressed ...

Cover the bottom inch of your pot with a layer of horticultural charcoal to add drainage and help keep mold and mildew at bay ...

Winters were brutal throughout most of New England inf Colonial America. It snowed a lot, often into spring, and there were no radiators (or antibiotics). Many settlers didn’t survive the ...

Forests of native trees and plants once blanketed the Western Ghats mountains in southern India, but nearly 200 years ago, British colonists installed rows upon rows of tea plantations there ...

Though the classic purple variety is probably the most widely recognized coneflower, you can grow others in your garden in ...

An international research team, including Dr. Justyna Olas who is co-first author on the study, has uncovered fundamental ...