The garden was quiet. The purple flowers on Giovanni's favorite plant seemed to glow in the evening's fading light.

VOA: special.2011.01.29

The experts said some plant chemicals are high in antioxidants -- substances that remove harmful chemicals from the body.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

In general,dead or living parts of plants need to be removed to improve the shape or growth of the plant.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

Black cohosh is an herb that comes from the root or underground stems of a tall plant in the buttercup family.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

In climates where temperatures fall below freezing, plant mums at least six weeks before the first frost is expected.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

The International Society of Toxinology supported the Initiative at the recent World Congress of Plant, Animal and Microbial Toxins in Recife,Brazil.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

Yet the plant is part of a group called Digitalis that is used in medicine to treat heart problems.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

He says farmers in some parts of North Dakota plant wheat that is ready to harvest in only about one hundred days.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

However,each time a plant takes in one molecule of carbon dioxide gas, it loses hundreds of water molecules.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

Signs of climate change include an increase in rain when there used to be only snow, new plant life,and melting ice sheets.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

He found fossil remains of the same kind of an early plant in areas of Africa, South America,India, Australia and even Antarctica.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

To dry parsley, tie the plant stems together and hang them upside down in a warm, dark,airy place.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

He says there is likely more risk from lead dust on plants or from playing in the soil than from the plant itself.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

The International Society of Toxinology officially supported the Initiative last month at the World Congress of Plant, Animal and Microbial Toxins in Recife,Brazil.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

In fact, today there are more foreign plant species on the islands than there are native plants.

VOA: special.2009.04.22