Who doesn't love free plants? While dividing perennials helps to keep your garden neat, healthy and blooming at its best, the prospect of making more plants motivates many gardeners to do the math -- ...

ATTLEBORO — There is a plethora of ways to propagate perennials. Just ask Karen Taylor of Atypical Farm in Norton. Taylor recently gave the Attleboro Garden Club a presentation and demonstration on ...

Some spring-flowering perennials bloom better if the plants are thinned every few years, and some perennials will decline if they are not divided on a regular basis. Irises are in the first category.

A lot of students begin by finding a common denominator for the dividend and divisor when dividing by a fraction. And a lot of teachers intervene by saying, “Remember, you only need a common ...

We live in a world written in number, from the binary code that drives the information age to the dollar, euro and yuan figures that shape the behavior of nations, corporations and individuals. For ...

Fractions, often perceived as daunting, become manageable with the right approach. Addition and subtraction require finding a common denominator, while multiplication involves directly multiplying ...

“Who would draw a picture to divide 2/3 by 3/4?” asked Marina Ratner, a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley, in a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece.

Few flowering perennials provide more enjoyment for less effort than iris. With colorful blooms that rival those of orchids in intricacy, irises grow easily in the garden. Seemingly, without a care in ...

Now that daffodil bloom time has passed, some gardeners might be wondering where their flowers were. If some plants remained all leaves, with few or no flowers, why was that? It might be that ...