Henry David Thoreau, 1862 The Donald Wyman Crabapple (Malus sp.), one variety of the flowering crabapple, is a large tree that can reach a height of 15-20 feet at maturity. This variety was discovered ...

5. Flowering crabapple (malus): The flowering crabapple is a quintessential spring tree, covering itself in bloom. But many varieties not only have a purple or reddish summer leaf color but coat ...

Small flowering trees bloom in March and transform gardens with beautiful blooms — like deciduous magnolia. Japanese Cherry flowers bring beauty and grow well in sandy to clay soil in USDA zones 5 to ...

The bloom isn’t usually a complete full bloom, but more of a scattered flowering. My magnolia does ... I have seen apples, crabapples, magnolias, viburnums, and now lilacs with a few blooms ...

Small trees are perfect for a compact garden and can add privacy, color, and vibrancy to your landscape as long as you select species without aggressive roots that might damage your home or driveway.

Scents have a strong effect on everyone. The right scent can make you hungry, sleepy, or more energetic. A pleasant scent ...

That's relatively recent in geologic time: If all Earth's history were compressed into an hour, flowering plants would exist for only the last 90 seconds. But once they took firm root about 100 ...

The heat and drought of this summer in southern Illinois are likely the stressors that have triggered the large production of ...

Flowering plants, or angiosperms, make up about 90% of all living plant species, including most food crops. In the distant past, they outpaced plants such as conifers and ferns, which predate them ...

Unlike animals, plants don’t need a male and a female because their flowers have both male parts and female parts. Pollen in plants is like sperm in animals. It comes from the male part of the ...