Mix some floral flair into your cooking! Many edible flowers are easy to grow at home or can be found at the grocery store or farmers market.

One approach is to mutate certain genes, like we did with our prickle-free plants. For example, scientists have created a mild-tasting but nutrient-dense mustard green by inactivating the genes ...

Louisiana iris is the name used worldwide for a unique group of iris hybrids derived by breeding together five iris species ...

Flowers like hibiscus use an invisible blueprint established very early in petal formation that dictates the size of their ...

The petal acts like a 'paint-by-numbers' canvas, where different regions are predetermined to develop specific colours and textures long before they start looking different from one another. The ...

Aurora Anaya unexpectedly fell in love with California native plants and vowed to create her own native plant habitat around her corner lot in Whittier. A bonus was a yard full of fragrance and ...

A study led by Prof. Liu Xiaojuan from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBCAS) has demonstrated ...

Dividing perennials isn't just a great way to boost plant health; it's also a brilliant way to multiply your plants ...

The most unusual hacks people use to help their gardens thrive include using bones as fertilisers, destroying fungus with cinnamon – and singing to their plants. A poll of 2,000 adults revealed ...

A rainbow, or the visible light spectrum, includes a beautiful array of colors, but it does not include all colors ...

Next, the plant produces flowers with stigma and stamen. These help the flowers to reproduce. Insects are also important. They move pollen around from one plant to another, helping the flower to ...