Do you know why plants are so smart? Because they have all the anthers. Plants amaze me; they’re simple and complex, all at the same time. They quietly and unassumingly go about their business, but ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Plants are an incredibly diverse group of organisms, ranging from tiny algae to majestic redwood trees. Plants have colonized nearly every environment on Earth, evolving ways to thrive in blistering ...

Karl Blossfeldt (June 13, 1865 – December 9, 1932), a German photographer, sculptor and teacher, is best known for his extreme close-ups of plants, which he used mainly as visual teaching aids.

Run these facts through your profile machine and you’re probably not going to get “cactus” back as the answer. Native to tropical rainforests along the Atlantic Coast of Brazil — both directions from ...

You could call lanternflies the unicorns of the insect world. The enchanting planthoppers, native to Asia and Latin America, are part of a superfamily composed of bugs that can shoot fiber optics from ...

Looking in my books, I dug up a little one called “Wicked Plants” by Amy Stewart, to see what we may be growing and what they could do. One that many of us keep is Aloe Vera because of its magic ...