Japanese researchers have devised a way to find out: Make the plant transparent. With a chemical bath, they reduce the plant’s visible chlorophyll, the pigment that makes it green. Days to weeks ...

Vertical growing can also provide an aesthetic boost to your yard. Derek Fell, a Brit transplanted to the Northeast U.S. and ...

But what about a wall of … plants? Vertical gardens, essentially landscapes installed on walls with watering systems built in, were once rarely found outside of larger corporate and public ...