Apply a regular feed to encourage strong roots and bigger plants, with healthy flowers and foliage. You don’t necessarily have to plant flowers in your yard to enjoy a burst of color.

Thankfully, this doesn’t have to be the case. Particular plants and flowers thrive during the winter ... orange, pink and red.” Violas: The garden expert explained: “Violas are a beautiful ...

We do have fossils of other extinct flowering plants, the oldest buried in 130-million-year-old sediments. These fossils give us our only tangible hints of what early flowers looked like ...

Plants have a sophisticated mechanism for monitoring the production of new proteins. The U1 snRNP complex ensures that the protein blueprints are fully completed. This is important because cells ...

Calvin Finch describes the colors of this vibrant flower like "waxy show paint on the clown’s face at an old-fashioned circus ...

After 30 years, botanists have found the answer. Arabidopsis has a backup plan known as RNAi. Tending a garden is hard work. Imagine it from the plants' perspective. Each relies on fine-tuned ...

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There's surely no better way to make your home a happier and more attractive one than by decorating it with flowers. Even the most low-maintenance plants ... once you have one, you have it ...

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It is often said the only constant is change and that is certainly true of gardens. They’re always evolving, both seasonally and over the years.

Plants like Arabidopsis, seen here, have two options to ensure accurate chromosome division—a molecule called DDM1 and a process known as RNAi. If Arabidopsis loses one of these, it’s fine.

Now that your vegetables and flowers have almost finished their growing cycle, it is time to think about saving seeds for next year. Saving seeds has several benefits. You can save money. You can ...