Christmas ferns, they're just simple woodland shade plants, right? Wrong! Turns out, we’ve been taking this green-leafed plant for granted for quite some time. Said to gain its name from pioneers ...

Q: I noticed a plant in my woods that had fern-like leaves with different shades of green in a distinct pattern. I don’t notice them in the summer, though, just in early spring. Is this something that ...

It seems pretty simple to plant a tree. Dig a hole. Drop in a tree. Fill the hole. Add water. Go back inside and have a beer. What could go wrong? Yet year after year, we see trees planted incorrectly ...

October is a fine time to plant a tree or shrub. “The air has cooled off, but the soil is still pretty warm,” said Spencer Campbell, Plant Clinic manager at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle. That means ...

In the Panamanian rainforest, scientists found the first known plant species to transform decaying tissue into a new source of nutrients. By Douglas Main In the rainforests of western Panama, the ...

It seems pretty simple to plant a tree. Dig a hole. Drop in a tree. Fill the hole. Add water. Go back inside and have a beer. What could go wrong? Yet year after year, we see trees planted incorrectly ...