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 ...

Dried fruit has a reputation for being high in calories and sugar, but experts say it can be just as good for you as fresh. True, dried fruit will have more sugar by weight than the fresh version ...

Dragon fruit—also called pitaya, pitahaya, or strawberry pear—is an oval-shaped tropical fruit. It grows on vining cactus plants of the Hylocereus or Selenicereus genus. Dragon fruit grows to the size ...

One basic question that you might not know: Is avocado a fruit or vegetable? Before we answer the question “Is avocado a fruit or vegetable?” it’s important to understand the difference ...

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 ...