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Pruning fig trees – The simple healthy cuts that bring years of bountiful harvests

The secret to the perfect fig is in your shears. A few strategic cuts turn a tangled thicket into a high-yielding masterpiece ...

Plant Doctor: Some plants will recover from recent freeze, start seeds for new ones now

MacCubbin gives gardening advice for Central Florida on assessing damage from recent freeze, mulch from ornamental grasses, palms and azaleas ...

First-of-its-kind automated root imaging platform speeds plant discoveries

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched a novel robotic platform to rapidly analyze plant root systems as they grow, yielding AI-ready data to accelerate the development ...
The Battalion

GPR scans reveal Century Tree’s root system

Beneath a shaded canopy of sprawling branches, generations of couples have gathered for photos, proposals and traditions in hope of manifesting good luck and ev ...

Garden Q&A: Why do suckers grow on my trees?

The growths you describe are suckers, which are new stems produced from the root system or base of the main stem (trunk). Suckers often grow at a much more rapid pace than the growing tips of the ...

Starting at Harvard and Falling for Your First Tree

A freshman seminar encourages students to behave differently in the world and feel more passionately about biodiversity.

Visualizing how a plant's leaves, stem and roots mutually communicate under environmental stress in real time

How do the different parts of an adult plant communicate with each other when it suffers an injury, is waterlogged, burnt or exposed to environmental stress? Today we can answer this question thanks ...