Coneflowers already draw butterflies and bees, but pairing them with the right companion plants can turn a simple bed into a ...

Roses are the undisputed stars of the garden, offering stunning blooms, intoxicating fragrances, and undeniable elegance. But ...

Your favorite summer berries are easy to grow from seed.

Here are a few plants to test your knowledge. The common name for coreopsis, the state wildflower, is tickseed, due to the ...

Florida's native bees are more efficient pollinators than honeybees and crucial for your garden. Learn how to attract these ...

A citrus tree adds a flavorful and fashionable statement.

If you brought plants inside last fall, they're likely to have become straggly. You can prune them and make new, free plants from the trimmings. Cut back lanky geranium stems. This will encourage them ...

Growing this perennial vegetable is easier than you might think.

Forty years ago, Renee Shepherd was an instructor at UC Santa Cruz, having earned a Ph.D. at the university. She was accustomed to playing soccer with European graduate students and inviting them over ...

Dr Raphaella Hull meets Hugh the Firmoss - one of the "talking plants" in the exhibition Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to let botanic garden visitors chat to 20 plants and get responses.

There are many beneficial reasons you would want to attract birds to your garden. Besides being wonderful for pollination and pest control, birds bring the added benefit of beauty and song. One of the ...

Plant architecture can be used to describe a range of morphological features that contribute to a plant’s overall physical structure and fitness. Both inherited and environmental factors play a role ...