Bring a tropical flair to your home with these easy-growing plants Reviewed by Barbara Gillette The edible banana is one of more than 80 species of flowering plants in the Musa genus. Bananas are ...

But Claude’s bounty isn’t in the tropics. It’s in an 8,750-square-foot greenhouse northwest of Montreal, in the dead of a Quebec winter. Claude is making a big bet that her family’s greenhouse, once ...

For Sam Van Aken, grafting — a horticultural practice of joining two or more plants together — is about more than just creating the best harvest. It's a way to preserve trees, particularly ...

All living things, including plants, reproduce by passing deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) from parent cells to offspring cells. DNA is the genetic information that provides a blueprint for an organism ...

SAINT-EUSTACHE, QUE. — Thick, humid air envelopes Myriam Claude’s banana tree, which bears a beautiful cluster of fruit, not yet ripe. Beside it are several trees blossoming with flowers, citrus fruit ...