A 2021 Canadian study reported that 1,445 medicinal plant species are harvested for commercial products, 1,217 of which are ...

What Is a Native Plant? Native plants are species that would naturally exist in an area without human introduction. They’ve ...

When Vancouver resident James Lanz and his wife, Kate Ketcham, moved into their Cascade Park home nearly seven years ago, one of the first tasks they wanted to tackle was the landscaping. Grass covere ...

Why should we plant native plants? I’ve talked to people who think Florida is tropical with no variation in plants year-round; that they are green and blooming all year. Florida is semi-tropical ...

At Calumet area forest preserves, seed-saving efforts ensuring native plants repopulate plots cleared of invasive species.

In addition to being beautiful, these plants (which are native to southern Asia) are useful in controlling erosion, and ...

For 30 years, developers and conservationists fought over the flowered sand banks of Castle Hill in Lake County. As ...

The NC Cooperative Extension in New Hanover County has a unique program: Nature at Home. It allows residents to learn about ...

We touch and smell the plants and hear the birds, he said, making “multiplicities of connections that you are now part of.” Image Mr. Pell’s immersive, naturalistic landscapes mix native ...

A series of plant sales coming up feature native varieties that don’t need a lot of water or fuss and that provide food and cover for birds, insects and other wildlife. Hallberg Butterfly ...

That means that planting dense clumps of these plants requires fewer resources and is unlikely to recontaminate the area or food supply. Indigenous researchers from the Aroostook Band of ...