Latest updates on the Iran conflict with US military attacks, casualties, and regional tensions. Renewed sanctions evasion ...

By identifying the genes and molecules crucial to resistance in American chestnuts and other species, researchers hope to use genomic techniques to breed trees that can flourish in the face of blight.

If gardeners take just a few seconds to do one simple job in July, they will enjoy sweeter, and much bigger tomatoes at ...

By JESSICA DAMIANO Like most gardeners, I occasionally stumble upon fruits and flowers that resemble something else. But a ...

Mary Jane Epps, biologist with Virginia Division of Natural Heritage, builds an exclosure around one of the last remaining Peters Mountain Mallow plants on a ridge in Giles County. Virginia’s most ...

Now is a vital time for pepper plants. Give them the proper care in July and you're sure to have a delicious harvest. Here's what they need this month.

I was impressed, and dismayed, with the photo of a lovely bunch of radishes in your Father’s Day column. It reminded me that ...

Have a shady garden and don't know what to plant? Ferns are the perfect choice. Here's 9 ferns an expert reccomends for your garden.

Roses are admired for their beauty, but can face challenges like black spot disease. The fungal infection creates black spots ...

He who plants a tree plants a hope,” wrote poet Lucy Larcom during America’s Gilded Age of the late 19th century. Today, hope ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the war with Iran is now expected to cost Americans $37.5 billion, up from a $29-billion ...

If you're struggling to get your tomato plants to produce fruit, check the cultivar — it might not have been developed to ...