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When building a hummingbird-friendly garden, you want plants blooming in both sun and shade. This plant, known for its ...
‘Yellowfin’ is a disease-resistant vegetable that can stand up to cucumber mosaic virus and powdery mildew. Keeping an eye ...
Learn about wild and garden plants with these interactive learning resources for KS1 Science students aged 5-7 from BBC Bitesize.
The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...
Travel & Outdoors One of the Rarest of Texas’s Rare Plants Might Be Growing in Your Neighbor’s Garden Wild big red sage may soon be listed as endangered. So how did it become a landscape plant?
A rare corpse flower, known for its massive size and foul stench, will bloom for just 24 to 48 hours. Officials for the ...
For the fifth year in a row, state officials are launching the Growing Wild program, which encourages the public to actively protect pollinators by providing free gardening starter kits at more ...
Members of the public, schools, parks, libraries, churches and nonprofits interested in adding native plants to their property are invited to apply.
Our region is also home to many invasive vines, which pose significant threats to local ecosystems.
Pawpaws do grow wild on Staten Island in the Greenbelt. The pawpaw is edible and delicious when it drops to the ground in fall. Thomas Jefferson cultivated the papaya-looking things at Monticello.
Wild chimpanzees have been observed self-medicating their wounds with plants, providing medical aid to other chimps and even removing others from snares left by human hunters, new research suggests.