Some container gardeners start out with windowsill herbs, but there's no reason you can't experiment with flowering plants as ...

From a flower which resembles a brain to a three-metre-tall plant that smells of rotting flesh, sometimes the natural world is more horrifying than any fiction. Discover this creepy collection of ...

Plant lovers will enjoy the aptly named Christmas cactus, with its flat green stems which erupt with red and pink flowers as ...

Today flowering plant species outnumber by twenty to one ... He officially named it Bevhalstia pebja, words cobbled from the names of his closest colleagues. Through my magnifying glass the ...

fungi found growing on food waste in South Korea a violet-like flower from Thailand an indigo-bearing plant from South Africa On average, scientists name about 2,500 new species of plants and ...

Sweat pea (annulas) plants are a gorgeous flower, famed for their pastel petals, stunning scent and low maintenance. If you haven't already, you should be planting your sweet peas now in pots ...

The four new species are on the brink of extinction as they can only grow in specific conditions. Read more at ...

Skullcap (sometimes spelled scullcap) is the common name for Scutellaria, a genus of flowering plants in the mint family. Practitioners in traditional Chinese and Native American medicine use ...

Thankfully, this doesn’t have to be the case. Particular plants and flowers thrive during the winter months, giving your garden a colourful revival even when winter is at its peak. So ...

we still use aster as the common name for both groups. Most gardeners know the large, locally native asters . . . sorry, Symphyotrichum species . . . as the tall growing, meadow dwelling, and fall ...

studying translational regulation of chloroplast gene expression in algae and flowering plants, respectively. Although his main expertise is chloroplast biology, his interest is and always was to ...