Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish ...
ALEXANDRIA — The National Garden Bureau has named 2025 the Year of Asclepias (milkweed) — and for good reason. This resilient ...
A phased pangenome of potato constructed from 60 wild and cultivated haplotypes shows that substantial hybridization occurred during domestication and enables identification of many putative ...
Promoting mutually beneficial relationships between plants and soil microbes that enhance nutrient acquisition by plants could improve crop production without increasing inorganic-fertilizer use.
While it’s easier than ever to buy live plants online, sometimes, despite our best intentions, those live plants become, well, dead plants. Artificial plants — fake plants, silk plants ...
For the summer, Swarbrick has returned to Auckland Central to tend to her house plants, walk around her neighbourhood, and (hopefully) spend some time on Aotea/Great Barrier Island.
Even though butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) is native to the U.S. and attracts pollinators, it does come with some concerns. This pretty plant can freely self-seed around your garden and may end ...
Another great holly variety is Nelliet™ with a tight, upright growth habit and very dense foliage, thanks to its shorter internodes (the space between leaves). Plants require little to no pruning to ...