November is a great time of year to plant rhubarb, an easy way to enjoy some home-grown produce with minimum effort.

Autumn conjures images of cascading red and gold leaves falling from tree canopies, but shrubs can offer brilliant bursts of color as well. If you want to add striking fall foliage to your yard, some ...

Do you have a yard that goes from summer green to boring brown to winter gray? Color it up with shrubs. “The right ones can really light up a yard in autumn, and they don’t take as long to grow up as ...

Normally when we think of trees, we are visualising a plant with a trunk and leaves that open in the spring and go through their growing phases until leaf fall, where it will remain with bare branches ...

In an ancient star system expected to be stable and dormant, scientists found a 3 billion-year-old white dwarf star still tearing apart massive quantities of rock. “The rate we’ve seen rock consumed ...

Even if you’ve got a beautifully designed garden, there are plenty of reasons to add plants in containers to your home. You can decorate a front porch or backyard patio with boxes or pots of flowers.

The red fall colors are intense this year. They seem much brighter than previous years. Red colors are due to leaf pigments called anthocyanins. A main factor that increases the red colors produced by ...

Transgenic plants are plants into which one or more genes from another species have been introduced into the genome, using genetic engineering processes. Techniques include the biolistic method—in ...

The Justice (Retd) B.P. Katakey Committee, appointed by the Meghalay high court, has recommended the demolition of 33 illegal coke oven plants in the northeastern state’s East Jaiñtia Hills and West ...