As any avid gardener will tell you, plants with sharp thorns and prickles can leave you looking like you’ve had a run-in with ...

Beautiful and functional, prickly pears are resilient cacti that are perfect if you are looking for low-maintenance and ...

A geneticist recently discovered the gene that accounts for prickliness across a variety of plants, including roses.

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A sustainable and renewable resource, pine needles can be used to suppress the spread of unwanted weeds. By stopping invasive ...

By identifying a key gene that controls prickles in eggplants, our team was able to use gene editing to mutate the same gene in other prickly species, yielding smooth, prickle-free plants. In addition ...

Creating a beautiful rock garden can seem like a difficult task, but it doesn't need to be. We have 8 tips that will inspire ...

Over several weeks, wildfires have ravaged northeastern Wyoming, burning nearly half a million acres of land in the Cowboy State and Montana. State firefighters have made progress containing the ...

The new space will be located on the mezzanine level of First Avenue Market and will feature owner Amber Morgel’s trademark ...

At the Phoenix Zoo and Desert Botanical Garden, complex operations to keep animals and plants safe from climate change may ...

A : It looks like a small sweet gum tree. They are beautiful trees in the fall, but they will produce prickly sweet gum balls ...

Weeds are the bane of gardeners’ lives and are especially a problem on any bare areas of soil, such as veg beds, left empty over winter. Weed membranes -sometimes sold as weed control fabric - act by ...