During the time of the dinosaurs, Dawn Redwood grew widely across the northern hemisphere including North America but it was considered extinct for 20 million years before a small population was ...

Growing your own fruit is an excellent way to diversify a home garden. Determining which species to grow based on your climate may feel limiting. However, if you are living in subtropical regions or ...

Northeast Australia’s relict tropical rainforests, one of the oldest and most isolated rainforests in the world. Credit: Alexander Shenkin Tropical trees in Australia’s rainforests have been dying at ...

For our third and final installment of the native plant/exotic plant discussion, it seems we need to get to the crux of the matter. You need to pick a plant to add to your garden, so do you plant a ...

Tropical trees in the Amazon Rainforest may be more drought resistant than previously thought, according to a new study. That's good news, since the Amazon stores about 20 percent of all carbon in the ...

Fraser fir is the classic Christmas tree — popular, shapely, with great needle retention and strong, silvery branches. It's the Cadillac of the cut-your-own tree lot. But what would it take to send ...

There can be an unfortunate side to having cool plants. Sometimes people want to steal them. At least, that’s been the case for Mark Hanson, who collects and grows rarities for his one-man business, ...

An Arizona couple wanted to preserve the natural landscaping of their Belize vacation property. Now they turn coconuts into coconut water.

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