1) Plant within the correct time window. In the northern hemisphere, the summer solstice arrives around June 21 with 16 to 22 hours of light (18 hours in the northwest of France, for example). That’s ...

ARGUABLY the world’s weirdest plant, Welwitschia mirabilis is a tangled mass of shredded, fraying leaves in the Namib desert. For a thousand years, perhaps more, it grows just two long leaves, which ...

A recent surprise in my garden was the first appearance of a striking blossom that I had not seen previously and did not expect. It is featured among today’s images. The blossom was from a plant ...

A wide array of flowering plants will bloom when grown indoors. Match the plant to the growing conditions and your maintenance style.

September, a transitional month in so many ways, marks the gilded gateway from one season to another, a natural changing of the guard. Many plants inevitably start to elegantly fade from sight, making ...

Pyrenees fossils suggest the Montsechia lived up to 130 million years ago and is the earliest known example of a fully submerged aquatic flowering plant Editor's note: The following essay is reprinted ...

The appearance of flowering plants on Earth, and their rapid dissemination during the Cretaceous can be attributed to their capacity to transform the world to their own needs, according to a new ...

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