Recently, we focused on three basic priorities for landscaping: develop a short list of plants, install significant numbers of each kind of plant, and select some unfamiliar plants that will fit into ...

Specimen plants are those grown by themselves as focal points in the landscape. They are the opposite of bedding, edging and border plants and are usually something interesting that is planted alone ...

Matthew Austin, curator of biodiversity data at the Missouri Botanical Garden, looks through Dogwood tree samples in the herbarium.. Austin’s research shows Dogwood trees are blooming earlier in the ...

Digitally cataloguing the more than 300 million plant specimens preserved in museums worldwide could yield crucial insights into how to preserve biodiversity amid climate change, a study by McGill ...

Samples must be accompanied by a sample submission form available at any DE Cooperative Extension Office or found here: Diagnostic form Information requested on the forms is important for diagnosis ...

In a nation where nearly as many people have a cell phone as a TV, social media has replaced social hour, and cars are on the verge of driving themselves, the centuries-old practice of collecting, ...

A single non-photosynthetic plant specimen preserved in a Japanese natural history museum has been identified as a new species. However, it is highly possible that this species is already extinct. A ...

A fossil plant smaller than a fingernail, collected more than a century ago from a Scottish rock bed, is reshaping the story ...