For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter ...

Bees are distinctive for their black and yellow coloring, but did you know some species are blue? The blue-banded bee is a ...

Take a leisurely look around the animal kingdom, and you will find some indisputable instances of play. There are plenty of viral videos that show baby elephants and bears rolling around in the mud ...

A common question is what do the bees do in this cold, icy weather? For the last several thousand years, bees have evolved to ...

It seems like everyone is enthusiastically installing pollinator gardens these days. I love to see folks appreciating the nature around them, especially when it includes our invertebrate friends that ...

How students, scientists and gardeners are working to support pollinators by protecting habitat and food sources.

Although we’re in the middle of winter, soon we’ll witness the unveiling of springtime and all of its joyous colors: brilliant orange poppies, deep purple iris and vivid yellow tidy tips. And after ...

It's a treat for pollinators like ladybugs and butterflies to visit your garden. While shrubs can lure them in, some plant ...

Nature’s most dazzling colors can be strangely rare. Walk through a park or forest and you see greens, yellows and reds that feel soft to the eye. Most of those tones are matte. Only now and then do ...

“Dimming all overhead lights and switching to warm-toned table lamps creates instant calm,” says Yamen Mahfoud, sales and ...

Give your garden a head start on summer with rare blue blooms that look almost too vivid to be real – all grown easily from ...

Award-winning Southern California breeder and The Huntington Rose Garden curator has developed 160 varieties of roses.