Walk With a Friend at Tualatin Hills Nature Park: 9 a.m. first Wednesday and third Sunday of the month. Take a guided walk ...

The world’s estimated 5 million species of insects are critically important to nearly every ecosystem on the planet. Among ...

Banana Tree is celebrating Veganuary with a deal featuring its vegan dish, Pad Thai. During the whole of January the Vegan ...

To make sure it doesn’t return you have to interrupt the seed-to-flowering-plant cycle at least for a couple of years and ...

Plant hormones, also known as phytohormones, are chemicals that regulate plant cell processes. They are signal molecules produced within the plant functioning in extremely low concentrations. Here ...

This increased relative hardiness has allowed it to grow well in dry, alkaline soils. Autumn blaze maple also exhibits growth rates up to four times faster than that of red maple, further increasing ...

If you're trying to start seeds indoors during the winter or just want to help your houseplants thrive in a space where there isn't sufficient sunlight, grow lights can be a huge asset. These special ...

As a botanist and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she finds inspiration and an alternative model in the plants around her. Particularly instructive is the serviceberry (think ...

After that, you’ll use a food processor and the fridge to assemble the cheesecakes. Keep the finished blueberry cheesecakes in the fridge for two weeks and the freezer for up to six months. These ...

Early versions of artificial Christmas trees tended to be these diminutive tabletop varieties. Photograph By Martyn Evans / Alamy Each year those farms plant many more new trees than the 25 to 30 ...

When it comes to the tree, “decorate a favourite pot plant instead of buying a plastic tree”, Spence recommends. Alternatively, she suggests donating your real tree to keen gardeners on ...

Instead, somewhere during or before the PETM, a population of woody plants gradually became the oaks. Each seedling in this lineage looked like the trees that produced it. Had we been there to ...