Raise your pots off the ground to help them survive winter. Elevating pots just an inch or two lets water drain better, which ...

A plant’s root system has a profound effect on its overall health. Look at the roots of a sick, struggling plant, and you will often see a sick, struggling root system. While plants may tolerate ...

When looking at forests, we hardly get to see beyond a bunch of green. However, for a plant ecologist, forests represent a much more complex world consisting of different species. This diversity of ...

A plant's root system is crucial to its overall health. Look at the roots of a sick, struggling plant, and you will generally see a sick, struggling root system. While plants are fairly tolerant of ...

Plant species vary greatly in how efficiently they convert sunlight into organic matter, how fast they reproduce, how much nutrients and water they need, how much carbon they store, or how fast their ...

Despite plants and vegetation being key to the Earth's ecosystem, little is known about the origin of their roots. However in new research, scientists describe a transitional root fossils from the ...

Plants may appear idle or passive to our eyes, but they are spectacularly busy, churning out a bewildering array of chemical signals that help them prosper in their environment. Some 20% of such ...