Snow Peas: One of the best plants to grow with kids in April is snow peas. These hardy plants can handle colder temperatures and sprout quickly, making them ideal for starting indoors. Snow peas only ...

Dear Master Gardener: I would like to get my young son interested in plants and was wondering if there is a good one for children that I can start him off with. What do you recommend? Answer: What a ...

Plants are living things that grow in soil and need water, sunlight and air to survive. Plants grow all over the world, in our gardens and in the wild. They can be big, like trees, or small and ...

From flavoring food to making natural insect repellents, Painesville City Schools students recently got an up-close look at some of the ways that people use plants during the second week of the school ...

LUNENBURG — Mark Gostkiewicz’s passion for sustainable farming began with his first job at the certified organic Highland Thistle Farm in Canterbury, Conn., where he learned about holistic management ...

Kids at a Flagstaff, Arizona, elementary school have been through a lot since 2019: the pandemic, and then wildfires and a big flood. Teachers are using horticulture therapy to teach them resilience.

Ralstonia solanacearum in a potato plant. The bacterium destroys the vascular system in plants, causing them to succumb to wilt disease. (Credit: Amilcar Sanchez) Scientists at the University of ...

For more than a decade, visitors say the Children’s Garden at Elysian Park was a shady showcase for indigenous plants, with dense stands of mature native trees and shrubs lining the paths of the ...