Ensuring your plants get the right amount of water is a challenging task, and lugging around a watering can is hard work. Here are some hands-off alternatives.

Killing or getting rid of grass in flower beds is an ongoing process. Try these methods to prevent and kill grass in flower beds without damaging your other plants.

Plants are constantly on guard. Their roots are equipped with molecular alarm systems that detect invading microbes and trigger immune responses. Yet beneficial soil fungi routinely enter living root ...

Make these simple homemade weed killers from a few pantry ingredients.

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As a Naturopath and Holistic Health Practitioner working alongside my mother, a Master Herbalist, we bring together ...

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We're revisiting an in-depth 1977 House Beautiful article about keeping your houseplants alive—and the advice still resonates almost 50 years later.

Rowan County will soon welcome nationally recognized environmental educator and activist Robin Greenfield as he passes through the region during his “Year of Foraging” tour — a cross-country journey ...

If your spider plant's tips keep turning brown, the fix might be simpler than you think — just try water from a source you ...

The roots of that big tree in your yard may be infiltrating your underground plumbing right now. If the species is shallow-rooted, it's even more likely.

Scientists have developed two powerful molecular tools that reveal how plants and fungi coordinate one of Earth’s oldest biological partnerships.