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, ...

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The Nature Conservancy excels at native plant restoration and ecosystem stewardship on a landscape-wide scale. By creating, extending and conserving native habitat, they provide permanent and ...

Just as I wrote last week about it’s time to divide perennials to get more plants and to rejuvenate the clump, plants are setting seeds with the coming of winter so it’s also time to collect seeds.

Growing vegetables at home is a joyous hobby; it brings warm and satisfying feelings as you sow seeds, raise plants, and ultimately pick the harvest. If you want to take self-sufficiency further, you ...

For the public library collection, people usually replace seeds they borrowed, but open-pollinated donations also are accepted. Cross-pollinated seeds are used for public craft projects like creating ...

Editor’s note: In October 2023, the project coordinator of the program described in this story, Dan Werk, was convicted of sexually abusing a minor enrolled in the program. High Country News will ...

Seeds produced from these crosses will grow and offer such features as increased vigor, increased yields and better disease resistance. However, seed produced by crossing two hybrid plants in the ...

From British Columbia to California, volunteers are collecting ash seeds to help researchers at Oregon State University find genetic resistance to the invasive emerald ash borer. The emerald ash borer ...