Now is the appropriate time to plant seeds for spring blooms in the garden. Growing plants from seeds requires minimal time ...

Mango trees, Mangifera indica, make attractive houseplants similar to Ficus or palm trees. They feature a canopy of long, slender, glossy leaves atop a trunk that can grow 10 feet tall, This tropical ...

Pink mimosa (Albizia julibrissin) trees, also known as silk trees, are beautiful, drought-resistant, and delightful to observe. The leaves fold when touched at night or when exposed to extreme cold or ...

Mulberry trees can enrich any garden landscape with their delicious fruits and ornamental charm. Multiple varieties like the black mulberry (Morus nigra), white mulberry (Morus alba), and red mulberry ...

How exciting to think of a full-size tree locked up within each seed still clinging to the branches of sugar maples, hornbeams, oaks, sycamores and other trees at the end of summer. It was with such ...

Yellowhorn tree seeds sprouting. With its chilling hours fulfilled in the refrigerator, these seeds feel that winter is over, and have sprouted. (Lee Reich) How exciting to think of a full-size tree ...

Suppose you have a favorite tree and you’d like to have another just like it. Can you grow a new one from seed? After all, nature does it all the time. Yet a tree in the forest bears tens of thousands ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

How exciting to think of a full-size tree locked up within each seed still clinging to the branches of sugar maples, hornbeams, oaks, sycamores and other trees at the end of summer. It was with such ...

The San Antonio Botanical Garden is working to grow thousands of trees to replace those destroyed by the July 4 Hill Country ...