To solve issues, we need to know the real reason or the root of the problem. What is interesting is that with gardening issues, many times the “root of the problem” is the roots. Unhealthy roots can ...

Roots are one of the most vital parts of a plant’s system. They are what anchors the entire plant to the earth, bad roots equal a bad plant. Without roots a plant cannot support itself. Without roots ...

While corn is a grass with a fibrous-type root system, some companies are digging deeper to learn more about roots. Generally speaking, those companies classify roots into three types: Fibrous: A mop ...

Not all roots born as first-order branches are the same and this has important consequences for overall function. We hypothesized that, compared with fibrous roots, pioneer roots are built to live ...

Plants come in all shapes and sizes, allowing them to fit into unique niches in the landscape, but they can be quite complex organisms. In order to select the most appropriate plants for a given ...

In gardens or on the streets, everywhere is filled with pinky-white or yellow blossoms in spring. Looking around the new sprouts and buds coming up little by little is always awesome and marvelous.

Spring has seen an explosion of weeds in the Southwest following a winter of above-average rainfall. There is a group of weeds visible right now that have similar carrot-like foliage but are actually ...

Q: Last summer I got all my evergreen trees removed but the roots still remain, some above ground level so sowing a lawn is not an option. The space is almost inaccessible to machinery to grind out ...

Growth industry: a 'Pink Perpetué' climber (left) and the various stages of cultivation (right) Cultivating healthy and hardy container roses largely depends on a combination of good pruning and the ...