January can be downright boring for active gardeners. Besides perusing newly arrived seed catalogs and keeping houseplants alive, there just aren’t many gardening activities to undertake in the dead ...

Dr. Nathaniel Ward, a 19th century London physician, had a keen interest in nature, including observing insect behavior. When studying a sphinx moth emerging from a chrysalis he had buried in moist ...

Do you usually throw away your old potting soil, thinking it's spent? If yes, you're wasting a good thing. Some plants thrive ...

CORVALLIS — While you’re battling the winter blues, make your own seed-starting mix and plan for the gardening days ahead. Home gardeners can start vegetable and flower seedlings indoors from four to ...

I am often asked what to do with bulbs that have sprouted in their bags before anyone got around to planting them. Can they be saved? The good news is that those eager beaver bulbs will happily adjust ...

The 15 species of pothos and their cultivars are climbers and epiphytes. This makes some of them particularly good candidates ...