Very few of us are born with a green thumb—most of us have to learn the hard way that taking care of office or house plants is far more difficult than it looks. I’m a great example of a person who ...

Top picks of our most highly praised plant growing time-lapses since our debut to 2024. We chose the best 22 plants over our ...

We all like our homes to smell nice–from freshly laundered sheets to scented candles–there are numerous ways to achieve this. However, fragranced indoor plants are a wonderful way to scent our homes ...

Orchids, mosses, ferns—or epiphytes, defined as nonparasitic plants that grow on other plants—are crucial for Earth’s biodiversity and play essential roles in forests around the world, building ...

Malcolm Bennett receives funding from UK Research Council BBSRC and hosts EU MCSA and EMBO fellow Poonam Mehra. Poonam Mehra receives funding from EMBO and Horizon 2020 Plants have colonised the vast ...

That’s one small stem for a plant, one giant leap for plant science. In a tiny, lab-grown garden, the first seeds ever sown in lunar dirt have sprouted. This small crop, planted in samples returned by ...

Q: While visiting a friend I was admiring a groundcover bed she has. She called it “purpleheart,” and she said it’s a winter-hardy cousin to wandering Jew. How dependable is it? I’d like to plant some ...

Epiphytes, plants such as orchids and mosses that grow in trees, draw nutrients from the air and create refuge for all sorts of other life forms. They are the foundation of forest canopy ecosystems, ...