Once you've planted a garden full of beautiful flowers, it feels like it should be inevitable that hummingbirds flock to your yard. Unfortunately, it's not always as simple as that. If ...

In addition to attracting hummingbirds, vivid, long-blooming firebush serves as both larval food and nectar plant for ...

Some flowers may have evolved long stems to make it easier for echolocating bats to find them. Like insects and hummingbirds, ...

More and more gardeners are adding native plants to their landscapes. These plants provide more than beautiful flowers for us ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Andrew Wight is a science journalist covering the Global South Colombian researcher Mónica Ramírez Burbano turned a fascination with ...

My garden soil requires a jackhammer when digging a new hole for plants. With some back issues and a bad knee, container ...

Mt. Cuba Center’s horticultural research team evaluated Amsonia, a genus of adaptable and long-lived perennials.

In the next month or two, we will have hummingbirds and the monarch butterfly migrating through the county. October 11th through the 17th is typically the peak migration time for ...

There are more than 30 species of hummingbirds in this forest, all competing for the same flowers. The booted racket-tail hummingbird, about the size of your little finger, is too small to battle ...

Just a perfect day for typing outside with the cicadas buzzing and whining in the trees around me. A fine and dandy weather ...

As the country’s landscape shakes off winter’s chill, the spring weather brings life with some of the country’s most ...