If planted later, the flowers should be removed in the first year so the energy is used to develop a healthy plant in year two. Strawberry plants can produce fruit for five or six years.

with strawberry plants: although there are occasionally some late fruiting varieties still producing fruits, especially in greenhouses, the majority of strawberries will now be bare and barren.

If you're dealing with a difficult spot in your yard where nothing else seems to grow, you might be tempted by the promise of an easy, evergreen groundcover like common periwinkle (vinca minor).

Every bite an herbivore takes comes at the expense of a plant. Are plants passive victims or do they actively resist these attacks? Some plants avoid herbivory by decreasing their apparency or ...

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 ...

Look for unblemished strawberries with bright-green hulls. Just one variety of strawberry, Elsanta, accounts for 80 per cent of the British fruit sold in UK supermarkets, although many other ...

We’ve all been stumped for the name of a plant at times, whether shopping at a garden centre, visiting a garden or on holiday. Plant-id apps promise to identify plants from a picture taken on your ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have adapted to the harsh conditions there. Some deserts are among the planet ...

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 ...

Case in point, raising llamas in a part of the Andes left barren by glaciers helped add nutrients back to the soil and increase the overall amount of plants. These findings were published in the ...