WGN’s “Plant Daddy” Tim Joyce is back to share some weekend gardening tips, including the next steps in the year-long ...

The cheeriness of blooming plants can brighten the gloomiest of days, especially during the winter months. How can we bring those beautiful flowers indoors and continue the happiness all season long?

These living trees add a splash of color and cheer to any room of the house. Here's how to keep them alive into the new year and beyond.

Here are some of this year’s best-performing plant varieties from trial gardens around the country, including Penn State, ...

As tender perennials, impatiens (Impatiens walleriana) are typically grown as annuals in many regions. These beautiful blooms are only winter hardy in USDA Hardiness Zones 10 and 11, and many people ...

My beets were slow to grow this year, so I bought a bunch at the farmers’ market. I was taken aback when the seller chopped off the vegetable’s foliage and attempted to discard it after handing me a ...

Discover the ultimate no-fuss houseplant! The spider plant Chlorophytum Comosum; is easy to grow, thrives in indirect light, and even produces baby plantlets for easy propagation. Perfect for ...

With this requirement in mind, a team of Chinese scientists looked to the bistable seed-shooting pods of the impatiens plant. As long as the seeds in the pods are still immature and not ready for ...

The proposed bistable gripper can maintain its grasp even without continuous energy input, while also being able to modulate its activation force, representing a new paradigm in robotic gripper design ...