As we approach June, it is time to highlight one of the best flowering trees for our local area: the dogwood. These trees’ brighten up our landscapes in May and June and offer additional interest in ...

Traditionally, weigela is known as a dense shrub with pink flowers that blooms in spring. The flowers may reappear in summer. New cultivars are available that produce more blooms in many different ...

Researchers have decoded the complete genome of Chionanthus retusus, a widely cultivated ornamental tree known for its striking flower shapes. Using state-of-the-art sequencing, scientists identified ...

This is Highly Recommend, a column dedicated to what people in the food industry are eating, drinking, and buying right now. Here, Kat Thompson writes about the flower-shaped cocotte that brings her ...

Looks like: This moderately sized (1-6 feet tall), native, deciduous shrub has alternate, oblong leaves. Tube-shaped flowers range from pink to white in color. Pistil and stamens extend 2 inches ...

Once upon a time on Earth, there was a first flower. Nature provides plenty of cues to help us imagine what the planet looked like 250 million years ago. But we lack concrete evidence in order to ...

What can you do with $10 of drugstore candy? You could eat it straight from the bags, of course, but you could also expertly arrange all of it into floral patterns on a tall frosted cake. That's what ...

Flower generalization has often been viewed as a suboptimal solution to managing the needs of different visitors. Researchers have developed a framework to examine flower-animal interactions and how ...

The first flowering plants originated more than 140 million years ago in the early Cretaceous. They are the most diverse plant group on Earth with more than 300,000 species. Evolutionary biologists ...

Your garden may not be looking Instagram ready at the moment, but don’t give up: There’s time for more color before the first frost. 19 Photos View Slide Show › By Margaret Roach On the cusp of fall, ...