Q. Most examples of unusual wildlife are animals. What plants do you think are notable or at least interesting in some way? A. I have received this question before, the first time being from Joab ...

Sex in the garden is more straightforward for the birds and the bees than it’s for the plants. Reproductive processes vary among flowering plants; for many, there is more than one option. When ...

Humans like plants. We like seeing them change the color of their leaves throughout the year. They connect us to nature even ...

Maybe you are mulling over your seed choices for 2021 in your favorite gardening catalogs, or perhaps you’ve wondered about some of the gardening terms bandied about in horticultural conversations. Do ...

Olivia Young is a writer, fact checker, and green living expert passionate about tiny living, climate advocacy, and all things nature. She holds a degree in Journalism from Ohio University. Of the two ...

More than 200 years ago, French botanist René Desfontaines instructed a student to monitor the behavior of Mimosa pudica plants as he drove them around Paris in a carriage. Mimosa pudica quickly ...

Lots of families memorialize deceased loved ones with gravesite flowers, especially around holidays such as Memorial Day, Easter, Mother's Day and Father's Day. It's a colorful remnant of a time when ...

Stuart Thompson has received funding from MAFF and the Nuffield Foundation and has consulted to the University of Copenhagen. Plants may appear silent, indifferent organisms to us, but recent research ...

Every year when spring officially arrives, people spend more time in the great outdoors as the season gears up. Whether you’re looking for help identifying plants along your morning hike or designing ...

MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. – According to the Alliance for Science, which is part of a nonprofit research institute affiliated with Cornell University, 1 in 10 ...