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Springtime home gardening, rake, shovel, trowel, gloves, and seed packet envelopes in a soil sifter (H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images)

A buying guide for budding gardeners

Nadia Hassani - Food52
(Ty Mecham / Food52)

Why native plants are best

Nadia Hassani - Food52
(Ty Mecham / Food52)

The best time to water your plants

Nadia Hassani - Food52
Mexican laborers cut broccoli stalks for Smith Farms' crew A as the harvest season gets underway at a Smith Farm's field near Fort Fairfield in central Aroostook County. Smith Farm's employ over 150 migrant workers to help in their harvest of both broccoli and potatos. (John Ewing/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

An extinction crisis is coming to dinner

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
A picture taken on May 14, 2020 shows a Titan Arum flower that flourished the day before at the Belgian National Botanic Gardens in Meise. - The Titan Arum is the biggest flower on earth and it takes several years for the plant to make one single flower blossom. Particular to the flower is its strong, bad smell. (LAURIE DIEFFEMBACQ/BELGA/AFP via Getty Images)

Breathing life into the corpse flower

Doug Johnson - Undark
Man and Child with Large Watermelons. (Found Image Holdings/Getty Images)

The science of growing giant watermelons

Nicole Karlis
Smoky Mountains in Tennessee (Getty/SeanPavonePhoto)

An "extinction hotspot" in Appalachia

John R. Platt - The Revelator
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Easter lilies with no place to go

Emma Platoff - The Texas Tribune
House plants in pots with a bee sitting inside one of the flowers (Getty Images/Shraddha Dharmameher/FOAP)

Finding nature in quarantine

Keith A. Spencer
(AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)

Scientists try spray-on plant vaccines

Fabiola De Marchi - Massive Science
Flowers of Gundelia (Gundelia tournefortii) (Zeynel Cebeci / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA )

The battle over a humble plant

Shira Rubin - Undark
House plant and musical instrument (Getty Images)

Houseplants aren't purifying your air

Luyi Cheng - Massive Science
PORTLAND, ME - OCTOBER 12: Acorns hang from high in an oak tree at Deering Oaks. (Staff photo by Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer) (Staff photo by Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer/Portland Press Herald Via Getty)

Tons of acorns? It must be a mast year

Emily Moran - The Conversation
House plant and musical instrument (Getty Images)

New music for houseplants is on the rise

Ashlie D. Stevens
The Dudleya Verityi succulent (Wiki Commons)

Millennials are killing rare succulents

Nicole Karlis
Kokia drynarioides, commonly known as Hawaiian tree cotton, is a species of flowering plant endemic to Hawaii that is critically threatened due to habitat loss and competition with invasive species. (David Eickhoff/Wikmedia Commons)

Earth's plant species are in peril

Lorraine Chow - Truthout
(AP Photo/Kristen Wyatt)

The race to re-learn hemp farming

Leslie Nemo - Undark
FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2014, file photo, the City of Toledo water intake crib is surrounded by algae in Lake Erie, off the shore of Curtice, Ohio. Groups working to solve Lake Erie’s algae outbreaks agree that a key step will be targeting areas that are sending much of the algae-feeding phosphorus into the lake. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File) (AP)

Algae is taking over Lake Erie

Maria Gallucci - Grist
(AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

12 plants for your health

Reynard Loki - Alternet
(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, file)

Is DNA the secret to safe antibiotics?

Kevin M. Folta - The Conversation

You're not really a vegetarian

Andrew Smith - The Conversation
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-285133p1.html'>Vitaly Raduntsev</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Poisonous plants

Larry Schwartz
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-98730p1.html'>Roman Sakhno</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Don't underestimate plants

Lindsay Abrams
(<a href='url to photographer'>seagames50</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Joanna Rothkopf
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