When the weather turns cool, my mind starts moving in another direction – toward my flowers. I make mental notes while driving to and from work. I look at other gardens as I walk our dog Max through ...

Question: Some of my perennial flower plants have become quite large. Is this a good time to divide them or move them to a different location? Answer: Many perennial flowers can be divided or moved to ...

In Teresa O’Connor’s flower garden in Boise, Idaho, one can find a variety of brilliant flowers, including aromatic English lavenders, bright pink apothecary roses and a sunburst of calendulas. These ...

Using high-speed infrared cameras and robotic flowers, scientists have learned how the hawkmoth juggles the complex sensing and control challenges of seeing in the dark, hovering in mid-air and ...

1. Conical cells in the petal epidermis are common across many diverse flowering plant species, and it was recently shown that in difficult-to-handle flowers, pollinators prefer conical cells because ...

Q: I have exotic lilies in my garden. They grow 4 to 5 feet tall and have beautiful, yellow, scented flowers every year. They are about 4 years old. I want to move their location, but I don’t know ...

To make the discovery, researchers put hawkmoths in front of robotic flowers in low light. The moths slowed their visual system down to collect more light over long periods of time, the researchers ...

The stunning Fontaine aux Oiseaux automaton took a team of experts in 20 fields, 25,500 hours to create. There are timepieces ...

It's difficult enough to see things in the dark, but what if you also had to hover in mid-air while tracking a flower moving in the wind? That's the challenge the hummingbird-sized hawkmoth (Manduca ...