The dormant season is a great time to sow flower seeds, establish trees and shrubs, and get started on the vegetable garden.

Plants that appear blue in nature, like blueberries, are not actually blue, but rich in anthocyanins. Blue plants get their color from anthocyanins, which absorb warm colors and reflect cool ones ...

They provide striking architecture in the landscape and gorgeous color throughout the year, from yellow winter blooms to ...

Erosion can whisk away valuable topsoil and even cause whole embankments to collapse. These plants will help lock soil in ...

Overall, only 2.1% of the pine trees' rings and 1.3% of the juniper shrubs' rings were blue; the cells which hadn't lignified properly were mainly found at the end of growth rings, in latewood ...

‘Blue’ tree rings, which indicate that the cell walls of that year’s growth never lignified properly, show us when a summer was too cold for the plants to grow. The scientists identified blue rings ...

Since trees and shrubs can live for hundreds of years, identifying these blue rings allows us to spot cold summers in the past. By looking at pine trees and juniper shrubs from northern Norway ...

Alpines such as conifers and creeping plants hail from exposed, challenging habitats, making them hardy choices for UK gardens ...

Want to know the core plants you can grow to add beauty while helping beneficial garden friends? Discover the best ...

About 8 inches (20 centimeters) of snow covered the ground and plants outside Braden Doucet’s Lafayette, Louisiana, home ...

The North Pole arborvitae was named Proven Winners' Landscape Shrub of the Year for 2025, and it grows just fine in the South ...