When the air gets chillier and the leaves turn red and orange, don’t start packing away your gardening gloves. The summer might be over, but that doesn’t mean you have to say goodbye to gorgeous ...

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Nothing brings color to the fall garden like mums (Chrysanthemum morifolium). At this time of year, it’s easy to pick up a couple mums during your trip to the grocery store. And while this is great ...

For crossword puzzle fans, a clue that appears often in crossword puzzles: a five-letter word for ‘fall flower’? A-s-t-e-r The aster is the classic fall flower because, like mums, asters set blossoms ...

With the help of fluorescent glowing proteins, scientists are now starting to understand when and how flowers shed their petals. O. Rahul Patharkar, a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Missouri ...