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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 was awarded jointly to , and "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".

When you are a gardener, it is always great fun to meet a new plant. For me, it’s even better when a neighbor teaches me about the plant. In this

Gardening: Why we should love our weeds most of the time Weeds can serve as hugely useful indicators of different soil types and growing conditions about 3 hours ago   Relationships are complicated. Just consider weeds, that vast, rambunctious group of plants capable of provoking the gamut of emotions in most gardeners: from fear and loathing (step forward Japanese knotweed, the invasive, non-native perennial weed capable of undermining building foundations) to admiration (think fields of buttercups in full golden flower) to affection (there’s something irresistibly charming about the dai...

Henry Homeyer: The basics of a garden library Two of my favorite books by Sydney Eddison. On left, “The Gardeners Palette” and on the right, “Self-Taught Gardener.” Two fine books on perennial flowers. On the left, “The Well-Tended Perennial Garden (Planting & Pruning Techniques)” by Tracy DiSabato-Aust; on the right, “Herbaceous Perennial Plants, Fourth Edition) by Allan M. Armitage. I will never have too many gardening books. HENRY HOMEYER photos / For the Monitor Michael Dirr is the author of several fine books on trees and shrubs Ed Smith's book on vegetables should be in...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   I know that many people, especially gardeners under the age of 40, use the internet to find the answers to their questions. That is fine, but the internet is full of “fake news” and spurious assertions. I do use the web, but if I want to learn about something in-depth, I reach for a book. People who write books generally write about things they know. Garden books are written by gardeners. Some years ago I taught a class in sustainable gardening at Granite State College, part of the University of New Hampshire system. I asked my s...