Now that the weather is cooling, you might notice that some of the plants we encounter look nothing like their mid-summer ...

Monkey grass is a popular ground cover plant that can quickly fill challenging areas of the yard. Thriving in shady corners ...

Choosing bulbs to plant alongside Muscari can depend on your growing conditions and color preferences. Most spring-blooming bulbs thrive best in loamy, well-draining soil (to help prevent bulbs ...

2. Monkey grass If you are looking for part-shade perennials that can easily fill a large border, monkey grass is the plant ...

The ultimate in low maintenance, this slow-growing, long-lived evergreen makes an excellent foundation or border plant, and never needs pruning. Also known as monkey grass, liriope provides ...

True wildflower meadows are made up of perennial flowers that come back year after year, supporting a huge range of wildlife. Planting wildflowers will bring benefits to your local bees and ...

Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...

Plants help people and animals to live. Plants provide food for people and animals to eat. They also make oxygen. All people and animals need oxygen to breathe. Plants are a very important part of ...

And given the prevalence of high-density urban living, it may seem understandable that many people use plants as a styling prop — a large-scale ficus to beautify a living room or a dainty ...

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Robot Identifies Plants by 'Touching' Their Leaves Nov. 13, 2024 — Researchers have developed a robot that identifies different plant species at various stages of growth by 'touching' their ...

Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...