Seattle Times reporter Lynda V. Mapes, in an effort to learn more about our forests, overcame her fear and climbed a 200-foot ...

Ox tongue (Gasteria glomerata) is a succulent gem. Foliage consists of paired leaves, each of which is thick and covered with ...

Meet the two-lined chestnut borer (Acanthocinus aedilis), a tiny but mighty troublemaker that’s been making life hard for hardwood trees! While this pesky beetle has a soft spot for chestnut ...

Plants store carbon in two primary forms: starch and triacylglycerols (TAGs). Starch is mainly stored in chloroplasts in ...

Over one-third of the compounds were terpenoids, chemicals that plants use to ward off threats like insects and pathogens.

Dogwood trees are a common and beloved sight in local gardens. While as many as 60 species of trees and shrubs are in the genus Cornus, the most common locally are our native flowering dogwood (Cornus ...

The sassafras tree, Sassafras albium, is a popular native tree that can be found growing in wild areas across much of eastern North America, including in Maine, New York, Michigan and Illinois. One ...

Use these hard-to-kill plants to simplify gardening on your most challenging sites or anywhere in the garden to ensure ...

All winter there have been balls of leaves in trees across Idaho, Washington, and Utah, and they will soon be hidden behind ...

Brighten up the shaded areas of your yard with shade-loving, flowering woodland plants. Here are some plants (with ...

The Chinese military officials in brown uniforms fan out around rows of young trees, shoveling soil into freshly dug pits. The camera pans to the most senior leaders one by one, in order of rank.

The Chinese military officials in brown uniforms fan out around rows of young trees, shoveling soil into freshly dug pits. The camera pans to the most senior leaders one by one, in order of rank. But ...