While your lawn, trees, and much of your garden may seem brown and dead come winter, it's all just dormant. So do you water ...

Keeping potted plants properly hydrated requires more than just sporadic watering. With the right method, you can ensure ...

The worst time to water outdoor plants is in the afternoon when the sun causes water to evaporate quickly. Avoid watering outdoor plants in freezing weather as water can freeze around the roots and ...

If you have ever wondered why your plants look droopy even though you water them all the time, you are not alone.

Every day, I get my weather forecast from our local TV newscast. In our outdoor business, the weather can have a great impact on our day. This is why I am glad we have several great meteorologists on ...

Roots play a critical role to reduce the impact of water stress on plants by adapting their shape (such as branching or growing deeper) to secure more water. Discovering how plant roots sense and ...

There are two key factors in figuring out how much water plants need: what we know and what we observe. First, let’s explore what we know. A tree growing where rain is plentiful will have roots about ...

How do environmental cues steer the branching of plant roots? Insights into how water availability shapes root growth reveal an unexpected mechanism behind the hormone-mediated regulation of this ...

New work by Alex Cantó-Pastor (left) and Professor Siobhan Brady, Department of Plant Biology, shows how tomato plants protect themselves from drought by waterproofing their roots. The findings could ...

Malcolm Bennett receives funding from UK Research Council BBSRC and hosts EU MCSA and EMBO fellow Poonam Mehra. Poonam Mehra receives funding from EMBO and Horizon 2020 Plants have colonised the vast ...