Whenever I wander around garden centers, I try to listen to what shoppers are saying as they select plants to take home. I learn a lot when listening to comments from gardeners about which plants they ...

As you start to think about the plants you want in your 2023 garden, it's important to understand plant life cycles. All plants are classified by the number of growing seasons required to complete ...

Occasionally, friends have asked me about the life cycles of plants, so here I will attempt to summarize them, in the context of plant evolution. I set the stage by describing the basic pattern of ...

For 25 years, Carol Augspurger visited a patch of ancient woods near Urbana, Illinois to look at the same 25 one-square-meter plots of earth she first demarcated for study in 1993. Her 600,000+ ...

Changes in climate affect the timings of various points in the life cycle of plants, including when flowers bloom in spring and when leaves wither in autumn. (Shutterstock) “Si sta come d’autunno ...

White storks migrating to Northern Europe nest up to a week earlier in warm weather, exposing them to extreme storms and threatening the survival of their chicks. Staple crops like barley, maize, rice ...