Maybe you want to share a favorite flowering plant with friends and family. Or perhaps you just want more bang for your gardening buck. Whatever the reason, harvesting flower seeds takes little effort ...

Fruit versus vegetable: a perennial topic for arguments in the produce section of your local grocery store ... and perhaps your holiday dinner table? Simply put, a fruit is a plant structure that ...

Q. This summer was the first time I had planted milkweed seeds and I had wonderful results. My question for more seeds is how do I save my hibiscus seed pods for planting next spring? Is there ...

The plants’ small, bright green rosettes send up little white flowers that form seed pods, beginning as early as late January ...

Time-lapse of planting an okra from a seed to harvest-able pods. The okra seed was sowed under potting mix soil in a 10-inch container indoor. It took over a week to sprout. The seedling was growing ...

A: It's called golden rain tree or Chinese flame tree, Koelreuteria spp. There are quite a few rain trees along San Felipe in River Oaks, in Meyerland and other older neighborhoods. Each fall, we get ...

Otto von Bismarck, the powerful diplomatic deal-maker of 19th century Europe, is famously quoted as saying that politics is “the art of the possible.” Horticulture, by contrast, could be defined as ...

MacCubbin gives gardening advice for Central Florida about the California poppy, magnolia, crape myrtle, kalanchoe, seed ...

The Chaparral, The Tangled Assortment of low-growing, drought-resistant native shrubs covering most of San Diego County’s lower mountain slopes, has managed to remain somewhat green this summer.