Certain plants produce some flowers with only male parts (staminate flowers) and some flowers with only female parts (pistillate flowers). Cucumbers and squash, pictured here, are a good example. The ...

Spring has arrived and with it, gardening season. The Pocono Environmental Education Center Plant Extravaganza Weekend will ...

Sometimes the teacher in me takes over and I must communicate a little lesser-known information about plants. Today's lesson is about bamboo. We don't have any bamboos growing outdoors in Michigan, ...

DR. ASA GRAY’S Botanical Series, New York, Ivison & Phinney, consisting of— I. How Plants Grow, etc., with a Popular Flora, etc. 16mo. pp. 233. II. First Lessons ...

You probably don’t think you need a botany lesson when all you want to know is how to keep your Christmas tree fresh this season. But explaining a few things might make the whole process make sense.

Plants are amazing creatures. They don't have the sort of nervous system we do and they are mostly incapable of movement. They none-the-less communicate with one another and with the other creatures ...