Once a seed germinates, it is committed to one location. Plants are sessile—stuck where they started out—forced to cope with ...

This shows how a water lily plant growing in 88 days from a tuber to blooming. The chosen variety was a cold hardy Nymphaea Colossea. The tuber was burried into a container that was half-filled with ...

A gardener has urged people to keep their old newspaper and any cardboard they have, as these can be used to prepare your ...

The Seed Library is on the second floor of the Rochester Public Library, and this year seeds will be available for growers ...

From mid-February you can sow tomato and cucumber seeds for growing in greenhouses, and plant out garlic and shallots in ...

Want to grow papaya at home? Here’s a simple, step-by-step guide on how to grow a healthy papaya tree from seeds in pots, ...

When we first bought our house in Owosso, I thought I would give my new landscape a jump start – and save a few dollars — by ...

For the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco’s nomadic debut, the artists Lily Kwong and Tara Donovan have devised projects using nature and light on the grounds of an unusual downtown skyscrap ...

Seed catalogs are an American tradition dating back to the 19th century. It pays to be a savvy seed shopper. I use paper catalogs to narrow down my selections before actually ordering online. How do ...

There’s not much you can do when you’re watching your clothes spin round and around, waiting for the laundry to wash and dry. But when Lily Zhang was seven years old, she spent that laundry time ...

However, we do not need to dig and store canna rhizomes over the winter down here, so this is needless work. Up North, ...