Welcome to the wonderful and weird world of succulents! These ornamental plants come in some very surprising shapes that make ...

The 15 species of pothos and their cultivars are climbers and epiphytes. This makes some of them particularly good candidates ...

Humans make stuff up—including the names and classifications of living things. But those categories are still useful. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore how taxonomy and systematics ...

Layer your garden from pathway to treetop for beauty, wildlife, and good eating. Layer your garden from pathway to treetop for beauty, wildlife, and good eating. Explore a native plant garden that ...

A group of various cacti in small pots - Elena_Alex_Ferns/Shutterstock Cacti are tolerant to drought and hard to kill, making them ideal for aspiring gardeners whose ...

While we’re all anticipating spring, it’s still only February. Outside, we can see our plants resting over winter, but just because they are dormant doesn’t mean they haven’t been doing anything all ...

Stink bugs get an understandably bad rap, thanks to their smelly defense mechanism. Here's how to identify the harmful ones ...

Last week I described the basic fertilizers that I use. This week I will add information about when and how often to fertilize different kinds of plants. Lawns: Frequent fertilization is needed to ...

When different varieties of one plant species are crossed with each other, their hybrid offspring are often more robust and grow more quickly than their parents. However, in the next generation, this ...

A study of fossil sites in Australia has revealed "exquisitely preserved" plants that lived millions of years ago. The material in which the fossils described in the study occur is called silcrete.