Artist Cynthia Bauzon-Arre wants to draw attention to overlooked local flowering tree species by teaching us how to draw its blooms How in the world did artist Cynthia Bauzon-Arre go from designing ...

From her fifth-floor office in the National Museum of Natural History, Alice Tangerini has a stellar view: to the right, Constitution Avenue runs in front of the Classical Revival facade of Federal ...

Obey the flower. I keep repeating the phrase under my breath, inside my head. I am not at all sure. It does not seem like I am making the right move. I look again at the small rose, then back at the ...

Balconies and gardens are not the only places full of pretty flowers. An analysis of dozens of scholarly articles suggests that visually appealing plants are featured more often in scientific studies ...

Scientists have long thought that the first flowering plant in history would be a land plant. Though a few angiosperms (the scientific name for flowering plants) around today occur in the water, most ...

It’s well known that plants have a fine-tuned ability to sense changes in the season by how much daylight they’re exposed to, yet scientists observed more than a century ago that plants sometimes grow ...

Natalie Rivera and her family stand by her three time-award winning drawing, “Flowering Wounds.” Courtesy of Terry Ward. Natalie Rivera, a senior at Nelson County High School, has won the “triple ...

Though not good candidates for indoors, there are lots of plant possibilities for your yard and garden that produce, shall we say, less than sweetly scented flowers. To be blunt, the flowers of these ...