When pollinators land on a flower, they're on a mission: They're looking for sweet nectar to eat and specks of nutritious pollen to bring back to their young. But how do insects know where to find ...

For many plants, spring is just a really good time. They have endured a cold, dark, hard winter and in some places, winters can be murderously tough for plants. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

If you take an early-morning walk in the late fall, you may come upon frost flowers. Frost flowers are intricate ice patterns near the base of plants, often looking like white poufs of cotton candy.

Your work has been described as “located between science and poetry”. Do you yourself identify these two poles in your writing, and how do you reconcile their apparent contradictions? I don’t see a ...

Question: We have recently started planting daylilies, and as the name suggests, the blooms only last a day. How long do the plants keep producing new buds and when can they be divided? Answer: ...