Through pollination and feeding on all parts of plants, insects influence which plants thrive, which struggle, and even ...

The dazzling white blooms of saguaros and showy yellow palo verde trees get lots of attention at this time of year — but the often underrated blooms of cholla and prickly pear cacti are putting on ...

After a decade of runaway growth, Tequila is growing up. In 2026, slowing consumer demand, transparency, and industry ...

Choose a small, self-fertile pear variety and plant it in a roomy pot with good soil so it can grow well inside. Give your ...

Returned to the family after three-quarters of a century Delbert Miller learned that his wife’s great-grandfather had built a ...

In Indigenous Asháninka belief, bees were once spirits in human form. Stories tell of a woman who enjoyed making masato, a ...

Food museums use food to preserve culture and history, demonstrating the close relationship between food and tradition and ...

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

Of the more than 4,000 known species of wasps in California, two are known as mud daubers: Sceliphron caementarium (black-and ...

Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...