Conservation means "saving things that come from nature" --- air, soil, water, animals, and plants. Plants might not seem to need care, but they do. Plants can get sick, just as people can. Insects...
True Tales and Tall Tales
Have you ever read a story in which the hero was a plant? In Scotland, the people tell a story about how thistle plants saved a king. Have you ever heard about a plant people hunt for with pigs? Or...
People and Plants
There are many kinds of jobs for people who like to work with plants. Botanists and other scientists study plants. They look for ways to grow better food plants, to make new things from plants, or...
What Plants Do for Us
rfW/MWtr Plants do a lot for us. We couldn't live without them. Plants give us vegetables, fruits, cereals, and most other foods we eat. Plants give us wood for building houses and making...
Plants of Long Ago
The plants that grew on earth hundreds of millions of years ago didn't look much like the plants we see around us today. Scientists have learned a great deal about what the world was like long ago....
Meet the Trees
> 4/, Mfe > > ■ I Can you tell an oak tree from a maple tree? Can you tell one kind of Christmas tree from another? There are many different kinds of trees. But each kind of tree has leaves,...
Famous Gardens
Many people have small gardens in their yards, on a porch or patio, or even in a sunny window. But people have also made big gardens. Some are parks that go on for miles. Some are indoors, in...
How Does Your Garden Grow?
They can't see their pictures, they can't read the label--- the seeds in a package--- so how are they able to know if they're daisies or greens for the table? It sounds like a fancy, it sounds like...
Weeds and Wild Flowers
Queen Anne's Lace in frilly white, Dandelions gold, Stalwart, seedy plantain spears: These are weeds I'm told. Though many folks may call them weeds And weeds they well may be, I stand and stand...
Strange and Surprising Plants
If you think that all plants are green, have leaves, and grow in the ground, you're in for a surprise. Some plants are white, orange, or even purple, instead of green. Some plants grow on bread,...