"Plants" Blogs & Blog Posts

This spring, Washington, D.C. residents turned out in droves to say sayonara to Stumpy, a gnarled and dying Japanese cherry tree. Even though Stumpy looks more like driftwood than a healthy plant, it manages to produce a flowering branch every year.

Research has linked eating 30 plants a week to a healthy gut microbiome. A dietitian who doesn't meal prep shared how she reaches this weekly goal.

Here's an enchanting timelapse of an Orbea Semota in bloom. The Orbea Semota is a star-shaped succulent that looks more like a sea creature than a plant, at least in this video. This plant is pretty mesmerizing to watch in bloom via a timelapse. R...

Barry Rice is an astronomy professor at Sierra Collage in Rocklin, California. He's also a passionate botanist with a penchant for carnivorous plants and maintains a fascinating FAQ on the topic. Along with dozens of questions about the lifecycles of...

Fairy circles are round patches of barren land often surrounded by grass. Various hypotheses have been suggested about what causes them, from gods and spirits to termites, unusual climate conditions, or self-organizing properties of plants. Previousl...

The Singaporean government promotes urban greening, with an up-to 50% subsidy for green rooftops to mitigate city heat.

WILDWOOD STATE PARK, N.Y. — Matt Borden, a plant pathologist, had walked less than 50 yards into the forest when he froze in place and looked skyward. He was standing in a thicket of beech trees in mid-July, but their leaves were almost all go...