Seed expert Emily Blaisden also recommends early pruning using the “Chelsea chop” method—removing 1/3 to 1/2 of the plant.

Every butterfly gardener delights when showy swallowtail butterflies make an appearance. These butterflies are some of the largest in the garden, and their colorful wings and soaring flight patterns ...

Native Plants for the Northeast The Eastern United States (U.S. Department of Agriculture Plant Hardiness Zones 3 through 7) only has one native hummingbird, the ruby-throated. They need a lot of food ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write skeptically about science, public policy, media and NGOs. Colony Collapse Disorder—it sounds catastrophic and frightening.

A caffeinated bee is a busier bee. It’ll work harder to find food, and to communicate the location of said food to other bees. It will, however, misjudge the quality of the food it finds, and so make ...

Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) hopes South Korean nationals who were detained in a massive immigration raid earlier this month can return to work at the Hyundai-LG battery plant near Savannah, which is in ...

The proposed Darien gas plant in rural Walworth county threatens our most vital resources: water and land. The project will rely on new high-capacity wells, drawing groundwater from the ...

The site of Ukraine's defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant -- partially destroyed in a 1986 meltdown -- lost power on Wednesday after Russia shelled a nearby substation, Kyiv said. The UN's atomic energy ...