When you eat a salad for lunch, you’re digging into a giant pile of plant organs. That’s right—plants are made up of organs, only theirs follow a totally different set of rules from our own. In this ...

As a botanist and extension agent, I think quite a bit about how plants grow. Understanding the method to their madness helps to explain and diagnose the various concerns of citizens that come our way ...

Across forest floors, under rice paddies, and beneath garden beds, a quiet kind of adventure unfolds. Some plants do not grow straight down into the earth like ...