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When it comes to finding the best low-maintenance shrub for the front of your house, Dallas-based landscape designer Melissa Gerstle offers this advice: “Don’t think, ‘I need a shrub.’ ...

The buddleja is a hardy shrub that is unsurpassed for magnetising winged beauties to its highly perfumed blooms. It grows to lofty proportions in the wild but its new, cultivated, dwarf-sized ...

A teaspoonful of their matter would weigh as much on Earth as an elephant—5.5 tons. White dwarfs typically ... greatly outshines its white dwarf companion, Sirius B. At 8.6 light-years away ...

Photosynthesis changed Earth in powerful ways. When photosynthetic organisms appeared, it led to the Great Oxygenation Event.

Everybody likes to drive or walk along a road planted with flowering and shade trees interspersed with flowering or foliage shrubs. The Colombo - Matara highway is laid out in the low country wet zone ...

Most plants get the energy they need through photosynthesis, but some get their nutrition by stealing it from another plant instead. About 1% of flowering plants (around ... but the lodgepole pine ...

Scientists think they have the answer to a puzzle that baffled even Charles Darwin: How flowers evolved and spread to become the dominant plants on Earth. Flowering plants, or angiosperms ...

That's relatively recent in geologic time: If all Earth's history were compressed into an hour, flowering plants would exist for only the last 90 seconds. But once they took firm root about 100 ...

Unlike animals, plants don’t need a male and a female because their flowers have both male parts and female parts. Pollen in plants is like sperm in animals. It comes from the male part of the ...