Turf may be an attractive groundcover for homeowners, but it doesn’t hold much appeal for pollinators. Add some broadleaf plants with flowers to the mix, however, and it’s a different story: forage ...

Neches white clover (Trifolium repens L.) is a synthetic variety of intermediate white clover with 147 parent plants selected for early and profuse flowering in combination with high leaf-to-stem ...

Q: I want to help the bee population, but I enjoy having a lawn for my kids, so I can’t just turn it all into a flower garden for bees. Is there anything I can do to the lawn itself to make it better ...

How the COVID pandemic helped boost Michigan’s honey bee population Do you want to help save the bees? There are things you can do to your lawn to make it better for pollinators. Turfgrasses don’t ...

Oecologia, Vol. 138, No. 1 (Jan., 2004), pp. 122-126 (5 pages) Date of first flowering was recorded for 40 years in the same agricultural varieties of white clover (Trifolium repens L.). Standard ...

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 42, No. 245 (December 1991), pp. 1589-1594 (6 pages) A spontaneous mutation isolated from stocks of red clover (cultivar S123) prevents flower initiation unless ...

Ask a gardener about their favorite flowering shrubs, and they might mention rhododendron, forsythia, azalea, lilac, magnolia, roses, or viburnum. These are all great shrubs, beautiful when in bloom.

Call it a flower or call it a weed — clover is a plant everyone knows. Who hasn’t idled away an hour hunting for a four-leaf clover, hoping for good luck? A member of the legume family, clover is ...

Call it a flower or call it a weed — clover is a plant everyone knows. Who hasn’t idled away an hour hunting for a four-leaf clover, hoping for good luck? A member of the legume family, clover is ...

CORVALLIS – To support pollinators, people have turned to creating eco-friendly spaces around their homes, including replacing their grass lawns with flowering plants. That’s no easy task, according ...