12 heat- and drought-tolerant desert plants to add to your home's landscape
As climate change makes South Texas' summers hotter and winters more likely to bring freezes, homeowners may want to reconsider their landscaping plants.
After Nov. 10, vegetable plants stop growing
Around Nov. 10, the Persephone Period begins in southern Michigan, causing vegetable plants to stop growing due to shortened ...
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Hero Plants That Survived My Post-Surgery Neglect
My Russian sages ( Perovskia —which by the way are not from Russia or in the sage family) were still sporting silver leaves and about half of their tall, arching sprays of teensy lavender flower ...
Heartier Heinz? How scientists are learning to help tomatoes beat the heat
Biologists at Brown University found what makes some types of tomatoes more heat tolerant, yielding insights that could help ...
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Tomatoes have a molecular trick to survive in extreme heat
Ouonkap discovered that the heat-tolerant Tamaulipas tomato variety showed exceptional ... Creating a molecule that could ...
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Top Performers and Consumer Favorites From the University of Tennessee Jackson Gardens
The University of Tennessee Gardens in Jackson trialed more than 225 varieties of annuals, perennials, vegetables, and herbs ...
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Ground cover plants for effective fire-scaping
With the summer fires soon to be in full effect, disaster management efforts must be in place. By adding fire-scaping ground covers, you are alleviating the wildfire problems.
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Heat hardiness: Scientists identify key phase for tomato heat tolerance
He studied different cultivars of tomato plants known for their ability to ... that were heat sensitive than those that were heat tolerant. Importantly, Ouonkap found that pollen tubes from ...