In the 1800s, the Great Plains were vast, windswept and nearly treeless. J. Sterling Morton had moved from the tree-rich East to the largely treeless Great Plains where he quickly ...

Besides the pollen, it is getting pleasant outside. Those who are less susceptible to it (or on an established regiment of ...

A tree from outer space landed Wednesday at Cascadia Technical Academy in east Vancouver. The 3-year-old Douglas fir grew from a seed that traveled 1.4 million miles to the moon as part of NASA’s ...

The snowdrop, or Galanthus, blooms when the world is still frozen. Gardeners enamored with the plant gather each year in ...

Watering, or irrigation becomes more important now that the weather is warmer and drier than it had been, and vegetation is ...

And as if without warning, lawn weeds are back. Slopes dotted with wild onion. A veritable carpet of chickweed.

There's an old saying that everything in Australia wants to eat you – and this apparently includes plants, with the island a global hotbed of carnivorous species. Now, scientists have made a ...

This fall, five turtles poked their snouts into the same waters of the University of Chicago’s Botany Pond that they once called home. While their surroundings might have seemed familiar, the nearly ...

A fall porch display with potted flowering chrysanthemums and pumpkins. - Тодорчук Екатерина/Getty Images When it comes to fall florals, few flowers steal the show like chrysanthemums (Chrysanthemum ...