The Weeping Japanese Cherry, sometimes called the Higan Cherry, is interspersed between the Yoshino, Akebono, and Kwanzan cherry trees. The flowers of the Weeping Cherry vary, blossoming as single or ...

Walk through most Indian cities today and the pattern becomes obvious: buildings are rising faster than trees. Urban planning discussions often focus on parks, but the real opportunity lies in ...

Some people hunt for gold, some for wild animals and some, like Mulford B. Foster, hunt for rare flowers. Which is how ...

Bright orange-red African tulip trees, once planted as ornamentals, are now spreading across the hillsides of Rarotonga and threatening the island’s unique forests and wildlife.

Want to make your bird feeder more inviting? The right plants — from ornamental grasses to fruit-bearing options — can turn it into a bird-friendly haven.

Temple Terrace was built around its trees and century-old golf course. Now, city leaders are investing at least $60,000 to ...

Botanists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) named the new species, Clusia nanophylla, because of the tiny size of the leaves, the smallest within the genus. This species has only ...

After the winter we have had, (snow, cold, ice, etc.) it is so exciting to look for the spring ephemerals — those little flowers that spring up one day and show off beautiful flowers. In Ohio, there ...

In ancient Greece, a hole was drilled in the trunks of almond trees into which plugs of pine tree wood were inserted.

In 2000, a group of STRI botanists collected samples of all the plants from the genus Clusia they could find in Panama to ...