Plant ecology is a sub-discipline of ecology focussed on the distribution and abundance of plants, and their interactions with the biotic and abiotic environment. Analysis of the FLUXNET2015 ...

This means the positioning of furniture and even indoor plants matter when creating a flow of harmony that matches the natural order of the world. And according to feng shui experts, there are ...

House plants are a vital connection to nature (however tenuous) and many species even purify the air. And treated well, plants grow and improve over time, rather than gradually falling apart like ...

“When you get this home from the nursery, I like to snip off all these flowers and make a pretty arrangement on my kitchen table. It allows the plants to put all of their energy into the root ...

The development of high-yielding, resilient cultivars is the primary goal of many crop breeding programmes, but the uptake of these new cultivars is persistently low in low-income countries.

The parents of a baby who died after choking on his food at nursery have welcomed new safer-eating measures issued by central government for early years childcare. Oliver Steeper died aged nine ...

A £15m funding pot to allow primary schools to deliver hundreds of nursery places has been launched. It forms the first stage of the government's plan to open an additional 3,000 nurseries in ...

Like many indoor-plant owners, my irrigation setup includes both an ancient watering can and a spray mister that, until recently, I’d wander around the apartment with on a Sunday morning vaguely ...

It's that time of year when garden centres come into their own. Whether you’re after colourful winter bedding plants for a hanging basket, a new evergreen shrub for the front garden, or simply a ...