Perennial plants, often touted as the crux of a low-maintenance landscape, promise years of blooms with minimal effort. While ...

Nitrogen is a critical element for the plants growing in your garden. They need nitrogen to help them with photosynthesis, ...

Healthy soil is the foundation of our food, clean water, and a stable climate, and cutting-edge science helps us to protect ...

Clematis ( Clematis spp.) is a vining plant that won't perform in clay. "Also vulnerable to root rot, clematis does not do ...

This soil plasticity generally causes fewer problems in spring and fall. But during the heat of summer, when temperatures can ...

One pushback against both issues is to become a soil-blocking convert, learning to form trays of free-standing cubes of compressed germinating mix to sow into instead. For many gardeners and ...

We have excellent teaching, research, and outreach programs in the areas of plant biology (cellular, genetics, genomics, microbial, molecular and physiology), agronomy (including pathology, soil ...

But are there sustainable and climate-friendly ways to restore and promote soil health in agricultural land? Yes, says a research team. Specific plant species could be used as cover plants for ...