For a single-color air freshener, pour the salt into a food processor, along with a few drops each of food coloring and essential oil. Pulse the mixture a couple of times to distribute the dye and ...

Plants are anchored in one spot, but they are cunning. They have mastered the art of enticing more mobile organisms to do ...

Roses are excellent hedging plants offering color and scent through the summer and fall (Image credit: Getty Images/Olina ...

They are a good way to add color, texture, even scent, and a different flavor to your food. Daylilies are great to experiment with if you haven’t tried eating flowers before.

A rainy day is the perfect time to cozy up to a good research book. Currently, I’m reading about the diversity of flowers and their pollinators.

What you see is what you smell – at least according to a new study that shows that characteristic scents can influence the way that people perceive color. For example, smelling coffee makes ...

That is, natural selection does not influence flower color and it plays no role in adaptation. Mountain ball cactus grow as single balls or mounds of balls produced by vegetative reproduction ...

Lingering question: Do variations in scent correspond to variations in color? Spring weather in Boulder is difficult to predict because it seems that it is not a time of gradual warming but rather ...

Other traits had emerged independently by separate means—for example red pigment regulators and floral scent compounds. Dr. Kelsey Byers, corresponding author of the study, which is published in ...