Hostas are perennials that provide significant foliage interest in your flower garden or landscape. Miss America consists of heart-shaped green leaves with white centers and light green streaking.The ...

In the spirit of celebrating these special natural gifts, we asked our readers about the things Southerners always have in ...

It does well in full sun, but requires about 4 hours of full shade daily.Bees, butterflies and hummingbirds are attracted ... mass planting in the landscape. Hydrangea of the Year: ‘Little ...

If you want to see year-round color, you don't need to look further than your backyard. There are many native shrubs and ...

In a remote mountain cave in Ecuador, hummingbirds were discovered sleeping and nesting together. By Rachel Nuwer Hummingbirds are tiny and delicate, but don’t be fooled: They are among the most ...

Tiny mites seem capable of relying on the power of static cling to hop into hummingbird nostrils and move between flowers. By Douglas Main Flower mites spend their lives slurping nectar and ...

Hummingbirds are perhaps our best-loved birds, but there’s a lot that people don’t know about them. What kinds of hummingbirds are these? Do they migrate? What does their courtship look like?

We hypothesize that flower mites may use the electrostatic attraction between the mite and the hummingbird’s beak to aid transportation. Here a flower mite is attracted to an electrode charged ...

Each year it seems there are more and more photos posted on social media of various species of hummingbirds that have chosen to spend winter in Mississippi. Although well out of their typical ...