Every garden has one, that area that is a bit more difficult to plant up, and one of the most common problem plant-up areas ...

The range of sun Coleus offers a wide palette of colours as does Sunpatiens. The shrubby Begonia ‘Dragon Wings’ is a lush, vigorous perennial reaching a height of 60 to 80 cm and spread of ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

On Jan. 15, the sun will oppose Mars retrograde, triggering a cosmic standoff between your ego and your emotions. This is the kind of transit that could make you feel like you’re caught in a tug ...

The reversal could actually have a beneficial effect on Earth. The sun is on the verge of a significant event: a magnetic field reversal. The sun undergoes such a reversal every 11 years ...

The Sun has just dropped its latest album. With all the boiling and bubbling gases, our closest star is a seriously noisy place. But you’ll never be able to ‘hear’ it because space is a ...

It flowers best in full sun. With all of the superb and showy coleus varieties already on the market, it’s hard for any new one to stand out from the crowd. But ‘Skeletal’ did that at last ...

So why has the sun been rising later than it did on Dec. 21? Like much of our day and night cycles, the answer lies in Earth's rotation and orbit. Yes, the sun has risen later than it did Dec. 21 ...

Researchers have discovered the origins of a 200-year-old volcanic eruption that ejected so much sulfur into the atmosphere that it changed the climate and made the sun look blue. In 1831 ...

Earth will reach perihelion at 09:00 Universal Time on Saturday, January 4, 2025, the closest point to the sun in its annual, slightly elliptical orbit. The word comes from the Greek words peri ...

The sun started 2025 with a bang as it fired off a powerful solar flare this morning. The X-class solar flare peaked at an X1.2 at 6:40 a.m. EST (1140 GMT) on Friday (Jan. 3), releasing a blast of ...

As an avid gardener who has lived under a canopy of mature white pine and red oak trees for nearly two decades, I’ve learned a thing or two about gardening in the shade. I’ve already shared some of my ...