I was out in the garden pruning last Saturday and took the opportunity to save some magnolia branches with flower buds to bring inside. It’s a tree that I have not tried forcing branches from before, ...

Bud blast, or the sudden loss of buds right before blooming, is a problem that plagues many orchid growers. For those worried about the lasting damage it could do, one simple solution could put those ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Are you impatient to see the flowers of your favorite shrubs show their blooms this spring? My suggestion: Use some force! Spring-flowering shrubs and trees in northeast Ohio “set” ...

Rare flower structures—tiny cups that keep flower buds submerged in their own water baths—can protect the blooms from marauding moths, say researchers. One species with these cups, Chrysothemis ...