As interest in using native plants increases, more home gardeners might be interested in starting perennial plants from seed. Native plants can be difficult to find in garden centers and ...

1. Dormancy in seeds results generally from the inhibition of one or more of the processes preceding or accompanying germination. The problems are becoming questions of the conditions for growth of ...

They are simply waiting. Whether it’s an apple tree, a lilac bush, or a tiny seed buried in the soil, plants enter dormancy as a survival strategy against the cold. Dormancy is not just ...

Huang Zhenying from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has discovered a remarkable survival strategy—a unique seed dormancy cycling mechanism in two desert ...

The helps with a couple things. First, many native plant seeds – forbs (wildflowers) especially – need that natural freezing and thawing cycles to break their dormancy. Thus, frost seeding can help ...

When you should plant your grass seed depends on the current weather. There is a process known as "dormant seeding" or "winter seeding." This needs to be done when we are having weather where the ...

At the beginning of spring sowing season, it’s worth remembering there are few greater joys than coaxing growth from the ...

NWT said dormant seeds preserved in sediment layers in the Brecks had germinated, bringing back a variety of aquatic plants, including rare fen pondweed. "We think we are seeing one of the world's ...