Germination is a crucial stage in the life of a plant as it will leave the stage of seed resistant to various environmental constraints (climatic conditions, absence of nutritive elements, etc.) to ...

A seed holds everything it needs to become a living, breathing plant, yet not every seed rises to the occasion. That tiny package carries instructions, energy, and potential, but one wrong move can ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Moisture and warmth are vital to achieving strong germination when sowing seeds. A crucial and easy way to get those two factors right is covering seeds for germination, but what you put on top will ...

My most successful have been daphnes, shrubby clematis, peony, and a Cistus called Pink Silk. I also have two young Chinese dogwood plants grown from seed. I value the several Pink Silk cistus (rock ...