If you’ve been outside this week — whether walking a trail, driving along a back road, or even just stepping into your yard — ...

Spring brings the return of color to the garden as bulbs bloom, perennials re-emerge, and new annuals settle in. But there’s a less common category of plants that’s also worth knowing: native spring ...

Spring brings the return of color to the garden as bulbs bloom, perennials re-emerge, and new annuals settle in. But there’s a less common category of plants that’s also worth knowing: native spring ...

Ephemerals are unusual plants that love early spring weather: cool and a bit wet. They bring color and otherworldly flowers to shadier corners. They tend to hug the ground plane, avoiding the cold, ...

April is a great month to celebrate native plants. Recently, Massachusetts joined the growing number of states across the country to declare the first full month of spring “Native Plant Month.” For me ...

TEMPERATURES IN THE 40S. LET’S HEAD TO GIRL GREEN. WELCOME TO TODAY’S GROWING GREEN, WHERE MACFARLANE RESEARCH GREENHOUSES AT UNH. AND I’M JOINED BY SEAN O’BRIEN FROM UNH CO-OP EXTENSION. TODAY WE’RE ...

In late winter and early spring, a select group of plants rise from the earth, grow, procreate and die in a race against emerging forest canopies. Like their amphibious cousins (or college students ...