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You say toe-may-toe, I say mare-ih-wanna. 14 Aug 2013 | 10:58 am
Police in Arlington, Texas are being criticized for their tactics during a drug raid on a local farm that came up empty while allegedly damaging both the property and the crops. “They can’t even ...
Downy mildew found on Louisiana impatiens 26 Jun 2013 | 11:24 am
Impatiens downy mildew was found on impatiens by Don Ferrin, plant pathologist with the LSU AgCenter, in the south Baton Rouge area recently and in New Orleans just this week. These are the first know...
Minter Gardens to close in October 25 Jun 2013 | 08:26 pm
Today’s news that the garden will be closing on October 14 after 33 years will come as a shock to B.C.’s gardening community. It is one of the gardens included in Rae Spencer-Jones’s book, 1001 ...
Landscape company celebrates National Pollinator Week by killing bees 20 Jun 2013 | 12:36 pm
National Pollinator Week began grimly Sunday when tens of thousands of dead bumblebees, honeybees, ladybugs, and other insects were discovered blanketing a shopping plaza’s parking lot just off Inte...
Plants re-grow after five centuries under ice 27 May 2013 | 09:10 pm
While monitoring the retreat of the Teardrop Glacier in the Canadian Arctic, scientists have found that recently unfrozen plants, some of which had been under ice since the reign of Henry VIII, were c...
Norway spruce is largest genome ever sequenced 24 May 2013 | 12:27 pm
Swedish scientists have mapped the gene sequence of Norway spruce (the Christmas tree) -- a species with huge economic and ecological importance -- and that is the largest genome to have ever been map...
How will *you* reconnect with nature this year? 24 May 2013 | 12:23 pm
The year of bliss. That’s what the Garden Media Group, one of the top trend-spotting agencies in the U.S., has designated 2013 — the year when gardeners turn their backs on trouble and strife and ...
Farmers return to pesticides as pests adapt to GMO 24 May 2013 | 08:42 am
Syngenta, one of the world’s largest pesticide makers, reported that sales of its major soil insecticide for corn, which is applied at planting time, more than doubled in 2012. Chief Financial Offic...
Are pink skyscrapers the future of farming? 22 May 2013 | 05:43 pm
The future of vertical farming, Mitchell thinks, lies not in city skyscrapers, but rather in large warehouses located in the suburbs, where real estate and electricity are cheaper. Vertical farmers ca...
If a tree cries in the forest and nobody is around to hear it... 20 Apr 2013 | 01:17 am
In the lab, a team of French scientists has captured the ultrasonic noise made by bubbles forming inside water-stressed trees. Because trees also make noises that aren't related to drought impacts, sc...
