Deadheading becomes more effective once the plant is established. At that point, removing spent blooms encourages new ones without disrupting the plant’s foundation. Timing it this way leads to fuller ...

It’s well known that plants have a fine-tuned ability to sense changes in the season by how much daylight they’re exposed to, yet scientists observed more than a century ago that plants sometimes grow ...

Experience the incredible transformation of a squash or pumpkin plant in this detailed 50-day time-lapse. Watch as the journey unfolds from seed and initial roots, through germination and rapid sprout ...

We recently purchased a home that has some very large azalea bushes. We love azaleas, but these are quite large and overgrown ...

The prolonged cold of winter is required for the flowering of many plants. Now the identification of a previously unknown long-term cold-sensing mechanism helps to reveal how plants are able to time ...

It’s easy to feel like you should fertilize lavender in early spring to give it a boost, but at this stage it’s usually not ...

Researchers have investigated how the parasitic dodder Cuscuta australis controls flower formation. They showed that the parasite eavesdrops on the flowering signals of its host plants in order to ...

The research groups led by HAN Bin and WANG Jiawei from the Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences have cloned Endless Branches and Tillers 1 (EBT1), a key gene that determines whether wild ...