Recently, we focused on three basic priorities for landscaping: develop a short list of plants, install significant numbers of each kind of plant, and select some unfamiliar plants that will fit into ...

A mix of serendipity and a little organization have yielded a treasure for botanists at the University of Connecticut’s herbarium: two plants specimens collected by Henry David Thoreau. Last month, ...

Matthew Austin, curator of biodiversity data at the Missouri Botanical Garden, looks through Dogwood tree samples in the herbarium.. Austin’s research shows Dogwood trees are blooming earlier in the ...

Digitally cataloguing the more than 300 million plant specimens preserved in museums worldwide could yield crucial insights into how to preserve biodiversity amid climate change, a study by McGill ...

Specimen plants are those grown by themselves as focal points in the landscape. They are the opposite of bedding, edging and border plants and are usually something interesting that is planted alone ...

Samples must be accompanied by a sample submission form available at any DE Cooperative Extension Office or found here: Diagnostic form Information requested on the forms is important for diagnosis ...

In a nation where nearly as many people have a cell phone as a TV, social media has replaced social hour, and cars are on the verge of driving themselves, the centuries-old practice of collecting, ...

Rescued from the verge of extinction, a single wild specimen of a rare California plant now has hundreds of progeny — celebrated Wednesday in a festive planting ceremony at the UC Santa Cruz arboretum ...

A single non-photosynthetic plant specimen preserved in a Japanese natural history museum has been identified as a new species. However, it is highly possible that this species is already extinct. A ...