Itching to do some gardening? Prep these hummingbird-approved seeds now, so come spring, you can welcome your feathered ...

Recent studies suggest planting strips of wildflowers alongside crops boosts pollination and promotes higher yields. But these aren’t the only benefits. Adding wildflowers to your farm stabilizes the ...

Zinnias bloom continuously all summer—and pollinators can’t resist them. Here, how to plant and grow zinnias like an expert ...

Our previous column included notes on pruning and propagating roses, and beginning a project to add roses, by first ...

Tillandsia are relatively inexpensive, adaptable plants that tolerate a wide range of environmental conditions.

Question: I planted Amazon lily bulbs last year that produced large evergreen leaves but have not flowered. When do they normally bloom? Answer: Flowering time is during the winter months for Amazon ...

The best way to determine what to plant in July is to familiarize yourself with your United States Department of Agriculture’s hardiness zone. This number, based on an area’s average extreme minimum ...

Deadheading your plants is a super-easy way to encourage more blooms. It sounds scary, but it’s actually just a term that means clipping off the spent blooms of plants. The main reason to deadhead is ...

By Linda GeistUniversity of Missouri Extension INDEPENDENCE, Mo. – Pollinators want you to sit back and take it easy this ...

The developmental regulators that confer the identity of N-fixing root nodules belong to a transcription factor family (LSH) more commonly associated with defining the shapes of stems, flowers and ...