A garden can appear totally fine and calm on the surface while a quiet invasion brews and builds underground. One tiny weed ...

Parts of the UK are on high alert for signs of Japanese knotweed, a highly invasive, fast-growing, and hardy plant that can cause all kinds of problems for property owners. It creates strong and ...

Hybrid fruit trees are often hardier. They can also produce delicious fruit in more abundance than their parents. That's a boon for birds visiting your yard.

Astilbes are unique because they produce gorgeous blooms without much sun. These other plants will thrive in similar ...

Scientists discovered that crops exposed to trace pharmaceuticals in recycled water mostly stash the compounds in their leaves—not the parts we usually eat.

With abundant snow cover late into the winter, rabbits often turn to stripping bark from the exposed trunks of small trees ...

A study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant genome evolution—a discovery that could pave the way for more precise ...

Are you starting a pollinator garden? Plant this low-effort self-seeding native wildflower to provide hungry birds and insects with abundant pollen and nectar.

Early March pruning can be tricky. Learn how to safely prune your shrubs based on weather, plant type, and goals.

Wondering what to prune in early spring? Experts explain which plants benefit from pruning now and which ones to leave alone.

The hardy vegetables can be planted beginning by early March. Hardy vegetables are the root vegetables except potatoes and the leaf and flower bud vegetables. Examples are onion, radish, beet, lettuce ...

When it comes to research on habitats for pollinating insects, villages have so far received relatively little attention. The ...