It’s not too early to think about spring planting. The Niagara County Soil & Water Conservation District is taking orders for ...

The Norway maple is a medium to large deciduous tree, introduced into North America in the 1700s. Often mistaken for the native sugar maple, Norway maple leaves are typically larger and turn yellow in ...

The flowering pear tree is self-incompatible, which means that it cannot self-pollinate to produce a fruit. Since the flowering pear arrived in the United States, many different cultivars have been ...

In our five years of testing for this guide, we’ve found that online flower delivery services are spotty. Think shipping delays and cargo jostling, extreme temperatures, and inconsistent crops.

Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is a vital cash-crop for four to six million small-holder farmers across the tropics, and supports a global chocolate industry valued at over USD 100 billion annually ...

February may be short, but this list of plant talks, hands-on workshops and outdoor events is long. In the Lancaster County region, you’ll find two home and garden shows and a farming conference for ...

Insects attracted to the odor are ones that lay their eggs in decaying meat, but they have the benefit of moving pollen between male and female flowers to trigger the flower’s reproductive cycle. In ...

SYDNEY, Jan 24 (Reuters) - A rare plant known as the corpse flower bloomed in Sydney on Friday for the first time in more than a decade, emitting an odour likened to rotting flesh and delighting ...

A giant foul-smelling flower that has become an unlikely internet darling has finally begun to bloom - and its rotting flesh-like odour has not been enough to deter its many fans. The corpse ...

A plant native to southwestern China, the devil’s tongue, like Wally, is a member of the amorphophallus genus that pollinates by attracting insects like roaches, beetles and carrion flies which ...

“When they open, they have to hope that another flower is open nearby, because they can’t self-pollinate.” There are thought to be only 300 of the plants in the wild and fewer than 1,000 ...