Much has been written about the value of including asters in your garden as a late-season source of food for pollinators. For this reason, I have included several in mine. However, there is one that ...
Technically speaking, the aster family is a botanical crazy quilt of composite bloomers (plants whose inflorescences contain ...
What Is a Native Plant? Native plants are species that would naturally exist in an area without human introduction. They’ve ...
The family of fall-friendly flowers includes hardy annuals as well as biennials and perennials. Keep in mind that 25 degrees ...
Fortunately, there is a better option to smother weeds without breaking the bank: ground cover plants, but to ensure they ...
A clump-forming perennial to 1.2m tall, with lance-shaped leaves and open sprays of yellow-centred flowers 5cm across, with many narrow white rays, opening from late summer to late autumn ...
It’s early November, and I have the bittersweet task of putting the garden to bed. The recent cool temperatures and frosts ...
The 2.3km long New York City High Line can teach us many things, not least about the most resilient plants to grow in urban ...
With our dry fall, I’ve been asked if antitranspirants should be applied to evergreens to reduce water loss during winter.
Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...
Photo Credit: Doughlas Goldman / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 Elliott’s aster is a favorite among the many flowering plants in Florida. This is because, in late fall, Elliott’s aster produces ...