I have enjoyed seeing a new visitor at my bird feeding station. A beautiful male Eastern Towhee has decided to hang out at the Mahaffey’s for awhile instead of migrating further south. Slightly ...

It may sound strange but plants can remember stress. Scientists are still learning about how plants do this without a brain.

Soilborne diseases continue to threaten crop health, particularly in valuable medicinal plants like Panax notoginseng.

Salinity has been an enemy of agriculture for millennia because even though many crops can withstand low to moderate salt ...

Growing tomatoes is such a satisfying thing to do and they can be grown outside, undercover, in pots or even hanging baskets ...

It may sound strange, but plants can remember stress. Scientists are still learning about how plants do this without a brain.

This video shows how to successfully plant avocado trees in areas containing clay soil. Root rot disease and poor soil drainage is the number 1 reason why avocados fail and die but this method helps ...

Soils around the world are polluted, worn out, over-fertilised and exhausted. How did we get to a place where we think of soil as dirt? Soils are buzzing with life, criss-crossed with a hard-to-fathom ...

A research team led by Prof. Huang Zhenying from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has discovered a remarkable survival strategy—a unique seed dormancy cycling mechanism ...

Even though February might not scream gardening season, it’s the perfect time to prepare your spring garden for a vibrant ...

Art & Science Collide event closed at the end of 2024, more than two dozen are still open. Here are the best of the bunch, ...

I don’t have a green thumb. At most, I might have a green elbow. I love house plants and I dote over the few dozen in my ...