Scientists have discovered that pollen is a hidden source of natural medicine for honeybees. Symbiotic bacteria called ...

A honeybee hive, with its large stores of pollen, wax, and honey, is like a fortress guarding treasure: with strong defenses, ...

Researchers have shown that pollen collected by honeybees contains Streptomyces bacteria that are endophytes, symbionts living inside plant tissue. These release antimicrobial compounds that inhibit ...

Sunflowers are the most noticeable of the cover crops that the couple use at Haz-Wald Farms, the limited liability ...

In general, clover is a hardier plant than grass so it naturally thrives more easily and requires less care. “Clover requires less water and less mowing than grass,” says Lynch. And depending on your ...

Clover is such an awesome plant to have growing in the lawn areas. It sprouts quickly and covers a bare area in no time at all.

Under a mackerel sky indicating the transition from summer to autumn, I recently came across a cluster of “hagi” bush clover ...

For one home gardener, that moment came when they came across a crop they didn't remember planting: a nest of adorable baby ...

Arthur Cole, head of programmes at The Newt in Somerset, UK, says that flowers that do not attract bees tend to be the double-flowered (double-petalled) cultivated varieties (cultivars) of popular ...

Tomato plants are easier to grow in the garden than you would think, especially when planted alongside these beneficial herbs, vegetables, and flowers.

MONTICELLO, Ill. — Trees for Bucks, Birds and Bees will be 8 am. to 4 p.m.Sept. 30 at Allerton Park & Retreat Center, 515 Old Timber Road, Monticello. Explore how planting trees can increase ...

Though technically perennial, pansies and Johnny-jump-ups are grown as annuals because they wither in the summer heat. They ...