Not everyone is a botanist, and sometimes the only thing you can do is stare at a plant wondering what on earth it is.

It's time to start thinking about what bulbs to plant now for long-lasting summer blooms. There are lots of lesser-known, ...

Amaryllis flowers are some of the most striking there are. They add punchy color to any room or flower bed, and their unique silhouette acts as a statement focal point in a modern setting. They're ...

Calycanthus floridus, commonly known as sweetshrub or Carolina allspice, is an unusual plant native to North America. Not ...

A type of Japanese dogsbane releases a scent identical to wounded ants’ distress signal, drawing in scavenging flies that unwittingly pollinate it.

If you thought native plant were boring, you are about to be proven wrong! There are hundreds of beautiful native plants that I absolutely adore. We have several species of native sunflowers, native ...

The following is an extract from our nature newsletter Wild Wild Life. Sign up to receive it for free in your inbox every month. The first thing that drew me to the corpse flower was its unusual name.

Scientists have discovered a unique fossil that does not match any known species of flowering plants, an advance that sheds more light on the planet’s ancient diversity. Researchers first spotted the ...

Though few plants would make good action videos on a nature show, that doesn’t mean plants are uninteresting. The carnivorous ones are certainly intriguing, whether they capture their prey, usually ...

Melisa Hanson’s business, Baby Mama Botanicals, is unique on many levels. She single-handedly grows and tends 12,000 plants each year in the half-acre yard that surrounds her Milwaukee home, in her ...