As the name implies, beneficial insects are advantageous to have in any home garden. Attract them to yours by planting any ...

There are some very clever ways to improve your garden by companion planting, using pollinator-attracting and pest-repellant ...

We often label plants as either ‘ornamental’ or ‘edible’ but, especially in smaller gardens with fewer options for the best microclimate, it pays to blur the lines and grow more ...

Robert Plant has been making music for the vast majority of his life. There is, as he sees it, simply no other way to exist in the world. Plant's time in Led Zeppelin is, numerically and ...

Traditional plant stands seem to come in two styles: those mid-century-modern ones that stay low to the ground and fit just one big pot, and the more bookshelf-style bamboo units with a few ...

Genomic and demographic analysis of an alpine plant–insect herbivore system shows that plants can use defensive camouflage to escape herbivores in an eco-evolutionary game of hide-and-seek that ...

Plant breeding is the production of plants by selective mating or hybridization. It is the traditional mechanism for producing new varieties of plants for horticulture and agriculture ...

Unlike animals, plants don’t need a male and a female because their flowers have both male parts and female parts. Pollen in plants is like sperm in animals. It comes from the male part of the ...

Plants need water to make their own food. This is called photosynthesis. It happens in plant leaves. Plants also need carbon dioxide from air and sunlight to make their food. Slide 1 of 3 ...