Climate change affects everything around us, including the bumblebees, or Bummers in Scots, we all love. In a publication last month, the ...

Daffodils These sunny yellow flowers, often included in mixed bouquets, are highly toxic for both cats and dogs when ingested. The bulbs, in particular, contain harmful alkaloids that can trigger ...

Here, with the help of experts, I reveal everything you need to know about growing anise, from what light levels it requires ...

Spring is on the way. We can see and hear it coming now even though we’re in mid-February — more than a month before the arrival of the vernal equinox.

Bill Kerr explains how bean common mosaic virus and bean yellow mosaic virus can infect a field and spread, leading to major ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

Currently, of course, there are bare boughs, sky and even the Towers of Woking. But the hazel is covered with catkins and to ...

Climbing or twining veggies and flowers like runner bean ‘Lazy Housewife,’ ‘Sugar Snap’ climbing peas, sweet pea ‘Mammoth ...

This is a plant lectin, related to ricin ... (C) Stigma surrounded by hairs with adhering pollen grains (yellow). (D-E) Pollen grains in three different views: (D) polar view showing the three pores, ...

It might be winter but planting season will be here before we know it. If needing help selecting a new tree, shrub, perennial ...

If you want to see year-round color, you don't need to look further than your backyard. There are many native shrubs and ...

The insects responsible for pollinating cacao’s tiny flowers are, themselves, also tiny, in order to access the flower’s reproductive structures. Biting midges from the Ceratopogonidae family and gall ...