H. macrantha flowers have both male and female reproductive organs. To avoid mating with themselves, individual flowers go through a male phase and then a female phase. They rely on hummingbirds to ...

It's that time of year…. Spring showers. Here at Brightmoor Flower Farm, there's a lot of hard work, dedication and weather that goes into growing the flowers ...

In nature, the quest to survive and spread is essential — and that’s certainly true for flowers. We might see them as vibrant harbingers of spring or precursors to juicy tomatoes, but from the ...

Every Monday at Roadside Blooms, we have a group of regulars who come in just to treat themselves. It also happens to be the day when our single-stem bouquet bar is half off. We’ve been told time and ...

We have looked at plants as a whole, then the individual parts (seeds, roots, stems, and leaves) to explore their world. Today, we are delving into flowers, the sexual parts of the plants. The ...

The centerpiece of the Swedish Museum of Natural History, in Stockholm, is probably the Fossils and Evolution hall, in which an enormous Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton seems to yawn over crowds of ...

This plant, called a fairy lantern, is a parasite that steals all its energy and nutrients from mycorrhizal fungi that dwell ...

In the mountains of southern Spain, one type of thistle plant seems to have built-in air conditioning. “Those are substantial coolings relative to the air next to it,” says Christopher Still, an ...

Edible Indian flowers were once everyday ingredients, used out of necessity and familiarity rather than novelty. These flowers, rich in nutrients, wer ...

Because orchids bloom for months, they might give the impression that their flowering period never ends but it does. And if you are new to orchids, you then face the question of how to care for the ...