Discover popular shrubs and trees that must not be pruned until spring, to ensure healthy plants with maximum flowers, and ...

October is the start of hardwood cuttings season, perfect for creating new plants from some of your favourite established ones. From mid-October, plants like Forsythia, Viburnum, fruit bushes and ...

This is a plant’s way of minimizing short-term damage so it can persevere long-term when growing conditions become more ideal. During the summer, spring-blooming species such as lilac, forsythia, ...

The fruit of the Spirit is a list of nine virtues provided by the Apostle Paul in Galatians 5:22–23. They come in response to a long list of sinful vices (“the works of the flesh”) that paint a dismal ...

Previous researchers have mapped the brain of a C. elegans worm, with its 302 neurons, and the brain of a larval fruit fly, which had 3,000 neurons, but the adult fruit fly is several orders of ...

FRUIT FLIES are smart. For a start—the clue is in the name—they can fly. They can also flirt; fight; form complex, long-term memories of their surroundings; and even warn one another about the ...

When Amos Abolaji returned to Nigeria from a year abroad, he brought home a strange souvenir — two jars full of fruit flies. The biochemist had been conducting postdoctoral research at the ...

The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK’s leading gardening charity. We aim to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place.

Quince is the ugly duckling of the pome family, which includes apples and pears. This yellow-green fruit is lumpy, hard as a rock, and sometimes hairy. Unlike apples and pears, most varieties of ...