Being a native wildflower in much of the US and Canada, learning how to grow and care for lupines is a cinch—but there are ...

Expect flowers from spring through midsummer and, while individual lupine plants do not spread, the flower pods each disperse up to a dozen seeds. Lupine is an annual and short-lived perennial ...

Insects are the most diverse group of organisms in the world. They also play a vital role in the functioning of all of the ...

The lupine plants themselves should be cut back down to the ground, but leave the roots in place as they have rhizomes attached to them that are packed with nitrogen. These are great way to enrich ...

During the spring and summer the leaves have served as factories where most of the foods necessary for the tree's growth are manufactured. This food-making process takes place in the leaf in numerous ...

The good news is that in a few cases, like butterfly weed and lupine, these plants will do the work of self-seeding for you. In the case of woody shrubs like lavender, you will discover that some ...

According to Spoonemore, foxgloves should be planted in early spring or fall in an area with well-drained soil with partial ...

Ready-washed salad leaves are convenient but deteriorate quickly and sometimes are rinsed with chemical mixtures to prolong their shelf life. Look instead for those that have been washed only in ...

No matter what color your thumb, you likely already know that all plants need water to reach their full potential—after all, that basic knowledge goes back to introductory middle-school science ...

Residents of Sun Valley’s Twin Creeks neighborhood have praised the city for its initial efforts this fall to slow traffic in ...

Plants play a few very important roles. For example, they provide us with food and they even help us to breathe. JOHNNY P LANT: Plants are amazing, animals depend upon them for grazing from the ...

Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...