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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astrantia flowers. Many flowering plants, such as astrantia, self-seed, which means mother nature takes care of their dispersal ...

If you’ve seen your garden flowers turning brown, it may be time to start collecting the seeds to give you more plants for free next year. Collecting seeds from lavender, foxgloves, honesty, ...

As a gardener, I have grown plants in my garden that I want to reproduce because they have performed well and have attracted many pollinators. While some plants are easier to divide with a shovel, ...

What can be more fun than collecting seeds from some of your favorite flowers and vegetables to share with others or to store and plant for next year’s harvest and/or enjoyment. For centuries various ...

Seeds are amazing little wonders of nature. From the mustard seed to an acorn, the seed is jam-packed with all the genetics needed for a whole new plant. Many of us start seeds in late winter in ...

As the autumn season progresses, many of our annual and perennial flowers are sporting seed heads or fruit. If you examine the tops of spent flower spikes, you will usually see a nice seed head with ...

Collecting seeds from summer-flowering plants in October is a quick and easy task that gets you seeds to grow next year for more plants. When the temperature and light levels drop in fall, preparing ...

Roman Gonzalez is the creator of the urban gardening blog MrBrownThumb, founder of the Chicago Seed Library, and a co-founder of One Seed Chicago. Summer is prime seed saving season for me. I collect ...

Q: The Norway Spruce trees that border our yard are dying, and they have holes in the bark. Do you know what could be causing this? Is there anything we can do to stop it and save the ones that are ...

Picking a path through the forest and mountains of North Carolina last month, two botanists were on the hunt for treasure. Their expedition took them to wild populations of Trillium, a rare native ...