Airlie Gardens is like stepping through a portal into paradise. These 67 acres have been enchanting visitors for over a ...

Fernando is a rock star. He's the resident staghorn fern who has been living in our greenhouse since 2010. He's roughly the size of an exercise ball — the kind you'd bounce around on. The shield ...

Built in 2007, it’s New England’s largest glasshouse display garden, with greenhouse gardens as well as outdoor gardens, a rose maze and a pollinator meadow comprising 23,000 square feet. The ...

Some plants just sit on a windowsill, quietly existing. Others enter a room and own it. They are the horticultural equivalent of a velvet armchair or a giant piece of art. These are statement plants, ...

Most plants get on just fine with sunshine, water, and half-decent soil. Carnivorous plants don’t have that option. They tend to live in places where the soil is so poor in nutrients that normal roots ...

MIAMI — With a cold snap hitting South Florida, this plant nursery owner is doing everything he can to protect his tropical plants. “Most of the plant material you see here is stuff you’d only find in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...

New analyses show that Nepenthes khasiana, a carnivorous pitcher plant from northeast India, loads its nectar with a nerve-disabling chemical that quickly incapacitates ants and other insect ...

MIAMI — Just south of downtown Miami lies a place that feels worlds away from the bustling city. The Kampong, a tropical paradise founded by one of America's most prolific inventors, now boasts one of ...

Researchers have described a new-to-science species of carnivorous plant that’s known from only three locations on the Philippines’ Palawan Island. The newly described pitcher plant, which grows on ...

Photos of Nepenthes megastoma, a newly described critically endangered species endemic to Palawan, Philippines, showing its lower pitcher (a) and two distinct variant forms of its upper pitcher (b-c).

There's an old saying that everything in Australia wants to eat you – and this apparently includes plants, with the island a global hotbed of carnivorous species. Now, scientists have made a ...