Known as the driest nonpolar desert on Earth, a massive portion of the Atacama Desert has been covered in flowers after the ...

Theresa Forte is an award-winning writer, photographer and speaker. She is a contributing columnist for the St. Catharines Standard. Reach her at fortegardens@gmail.com. Perennial flowering bulbs such ...

Spring has finally arrived in the Southern Hemisphere and, in Chile, even the desert is blossoming. Known as the driest ...

Autumn is in full swing, and plenty of plants are still in full bloom – and if you know which plants to deadhead in October, you can extend those displays up to the first frosts. Deadheading is the ...

Cyclamen care made simple: keep it cool, water from below, and learn why it droops or yellows, plus the florist and hardy ...

Auxin is the master hormone that quietly choreographs nearly every stage of a plant’s life, from the first division of an ...

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Nothing beats fresh blossoms on an entryway credenza, kitchen counter, or coffee table—that is, except for fresh blossoms that actually last. Go for indoor flowering plants and give buds a more ...

Dinosaurs and other animals might have eaten the fruits of angiosperms during the Late Cretaceous. Brian Engh Flowering plants may have started producing relatively large, fleshy fruits millions of ...

A unique cache of plant fossils from volcanic deposits in New Mexico contradicts the common narrative that flowering plants were minor players in Earth's forests until dinosaurs disappeared 66 million ...

An artistic reconstruction of the understory of a late Cretaceous forest based on 75-million-year-old fossils from an inland environment that is now part of New Mexico. The scene depicts two ...

Fruit salad may have been on the menu for some dinosaurs. Over 74 million years ago, there was a richer garden of fruit- and seed-bearing plants than scientists thought. A fossil analysis suggests ...