My indoor Ti Plants (Cordyline fruticosa) grow best when they receive at least four hours of bright yet indirect light daily. I place mine a few feet away from a south or east-facing window, which ...

There are many types of dracaena houseplants to choose from, most of them have spear- or grass-shaped leaves that extend off ...

No matter what color your thumb, you likely already know that all plants need water to reach their full potential—after all, that basic knowledge goes back to introductory middle-school science ...

Fill pots with fresh peat-free multi-purpose compost or if you're growing shrubs or long-term plants, use a soil-based John Innes compost. There are peat and peat-free versions, and both are easy ...

Some people plant seeds in pots or in gardens to germinate. Plants in the wild have many different ways of scattering their seeds, this is called ‘Dispersal’. The wind disperses lots of seeds ...

Ferns might lack flowers, but they're great plants for a shady spot. Many are evergreen and most have intricately cut leaves that are as beautiful as any bloom. Which? Gardening magazine grew a range ...

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 ...

In some places, solar plants are grouped together in solar parks or clusters, leading to even higher capacities. As described in the introduction, these will be covered in later articles.

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For thousands of years, plant breeders have taken advantage of these variations to create high-yielding crop varieties. In 1983, the first genetically modified organisms , or GMOs, appeared in ...

Even then, before collecting too many, Karen cuts the seed open to check there is an embryo inside; on the seeds of Cordyline rubra ... causing the rainforest plants to gradually retreat to ...