Millions of native orchids are flourishing on the site of a former iron mine in the Adirondacks, suggesting that former industrial sites – typically regarded as blighted landscapes — have untapped ...

One of the neatest things about being a botanist is that there is always a surprise, right around the corner. We sometimes fall into the trap of thinking that everything around us is hum-drum and ...

The delicate Florida Butterfly orchid, decimated by development and illegal collection over the past century, is about to make a comeback in Palm Beach County. Students at 12 schools have been ...

The finicky plants are threatened by habitat loss and climate change, but as the Missouri Botanical Garden works to conserve them, scientists are learning the difficulties of growing native orchids in ...

Researchers behind a new study examining thousands of flower specimens collected over the past century say temperature ...

There are thousands of different kinds of orchids. In fact, botanists generally consider this to be the largest plant family, with upwards of 30,000 different species. This really is a bewildering ...

Spring is here, and it won’t get cold anymore. (Famous last words.) With spring comes a torrent of interest in gardening, and lots of money and effort are spent to this end on both small and large ...

HOCKESSIN — They’ve captured our imagination for hundreds of years. They’re everywhere — weddings, grocery stores, even Beyoncé’s tour merch. They’re orchids, and Delaware’s native orchids are in ...

If the goals of the Equality Garden Club are met, Wilton Manors will have 1,000 new orchids planted and ready to bloom in the near future at Richardson Park, 1937 Wilton Drive. Rios, a Master Gardener ...

Today’s featured flower is one that my wife and I have growing in two of our bowl-type bog gardens in our yard. We planted these two last year at a workshop run for the Delaware Valley Chapter of the ...

Leaves of green stand out in a drab winter landscape, when nearly everything else is gray or brown. That’s how a cranefly orchid was discovered a few years ago at a preserved farm in Salem County.