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The summer swings into full flourish with the Glorious Fourth. And gardens swing into full flower and fruitfulness ...

Make parallel ring incisions around the stem that are about 1 or 2 inches apart. Take care not to cut into the woody part of ...

A new computational biology pipeline has mapped out over 13,000 groups of protein-coding genes conserved across grasses, ...

For a decade, scientists have believed that plants sense temperature mainly through specialized proteins, and mainly at night ...

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Often described as “low maintenance” or “hardy,” these plants are simply ones that are near-impossible to kill. They are ...

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As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...