Give your late summer veggies a head start by starting seeds indoors. Crops like broccoli, cabbage, and kale do best when ...

Avoid dried-out plants this season with these easy tips. The Old Farmer's Almanac forecasts this summer as the hottest on record, breaking the previous two years’ record-high temperatures. And while ...

Some of us like to keep our houses warmer than average. If that's you, there are some houseplants that will thrive in your ...

Heat-tolerant plants like zinnias, sunflowers, King’s Mantle, Crinums, and perennial salvias thrive in high temperatures. Torenia (Wishbone Flower), sweet alyssum, Euphorbia ‘Diamond Frost,’ and ...

DENVER — Spring annuals are doing well in containers now. If you planted pansies, kale and sweet alyssum early, they should be putting on a good show. I plant a lot of lettuce in pots because it's ...

Technically lead plant is a shrub, but never gets larger than 3 feet, so it can act as a tall 30-inch perennial. Once a lead plant is established, it is long-lived, and heat and drought tolerant.

While humans can escape the heat by seeking shade or shedding layers, plants remain rooted in place. So how do they survive extreme heat? It’s a question many have wondered—and now, science has an ...

Researchers find a native plant rapidly splitting into unique urban types as heat islands and city microclimates accelerate ...