Vibrant flowers, fresh herbs, and even some home-grown veggies can do really well on a sunny balcony. Imagine blooming bougainvillaea, fragrant basil ... which flowers and plants do particularly ...

October is an ideal month to plant a variety of flowers, hardy vegetables ... Use of fertilisers (slow-release) ensures steady growth. Sweet Peas are the climbing plants that produce fragrant ...

THIS little book is intended for students who have already studied the elementary principles of botanical science. It is divided into three parts, dealing with respectively, the most general ...

This month, plant a variety of cool-season vegetables like spinach, carrots, and fenugreek; herbs like coriander and mint; ...

Holy basil is the English name for the plant Ocimum sanctum. People should not mistake this with the culinary form of basil, which comes from the plant Ocimum basilicum. This article explores the ...

let’s talk about the seeds you should plant now to create beautiful blooms this spring: native California wildflowers and sweet peas, one of the most delicate and fragrant flowers in the world.

Only six years old at the time, I was at first put off by these garish plants. Such strange and vibrant flowers seemed out of place among the respectable beans, peppers, spinach, and other ...

Growing and harvesting your own cooking herbs is a rewarding experience that adds freshness and flavor to your culinary ...

Lilies are romantic, showy flowers that fill our borders and pots with glamour in midsummer. Intensive breeding has created lilies of all shapes and sizes, so Which? Gardening magazine trialled a ...

Sotol is a Mexican spirit made from a plant in the same family as agave. Learn what sets it apart from tequila and mezcal and ...

studying translational regulation of chloroplast gene expression in algae and flowering plants, respectively. Although his main expertise is chloroplast biology, his interest is and always was to ...