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If you have not use the iNaturalist app to enter plant photographs and location information you haven’t had the opportunity…

Katharine Murray Lyell’s book, A Geographical Distribution of All the Known Ferns, was published by John Murray (who was also Charles…

Carving a scary face in a pumpkin is a common Halloween custom. The tradition appears to be one that we…

The New York Botanical Garden is a museum of plants, an educational institution, and a scientific research organization in the…

2022 has been another great year for biological recording. I’ve seen lots of amazing species, many new for me, but…

Cordoba is famous for its beautiful patios and courtyards, and even has a Patio Festival every year, where many private…

Tweet Karst in Aurora do Tocantins, central Brazil comprising highly dissected outcrops with open vegetation, and collapsed forested margins. Credits,…

Tree plantation was conducted as a collaborative activity by the Department of Botany, Physics along with NSS, Vaidyanath College, Parli-Vaijnath,…

Scaevola is a genus of plants in the family Goodeniaceae. They are commonly known as Fan Flowers for their…

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Bunchberry, Cornus unalaschkensis (Cornaceae). #cornus #cornusunalasckensis #bunchberry #cornaceae #plants #flowers #botany #plantid #plantidentification https://www.instagram.com/p/By1MdH5AubK/?igshid=hw3b58jzocsm cornus cornusunalasckensis …

 Most of us hardly ever think about figs. It is one of many fruits available to us. Some could take…

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The Botanist in the Kitchen has a new online presence and a new monthly newsletter: Gather and Sow. The Gather…

We have a new website! Please visit our new site at www.gardenfling.org to keep up with news and upcoming Fling events. We are…

Sometimes, planning is overrated. If it weren’t for happy accidents, there’d be no Post-Its or penicillin. Strangers sat down randomly at conference lunch table, sowing the…

 Not today! Actually, yeah. Today. Let’s do it.Years ago I arrived to do a consult for an eccentric artist lady on an overgrown…

Not too many plants blossom in the middle of summer. But the bottle brush buckeye is reliable shade tolerating plant. …

WHEN I WAS YOUNG, my mum discovered a quandong tree close to our house – the thirty-ninth she had lived…

We received an intriguing surprise the other night while prepping dinner. We cut open an unassuming bell pepper (Capsicum annuum)…

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This small creeping plant is a native of Australasia. Its first record in the whole of Britain was from ‘Slateford…

Blue eryngo, Eryngium planum, is the most common garden plant in the genus Erygnium. The eryngiums are a group of…

After spending the past 20 years working at Winterbourne, I am saying goodbye this February to take on a new…

 Completing the Old Logger’s Path on a sun-drenched autumn dayOur long trek did not go according to plan. Not even…

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I recently finished a black and white illustration of Heliamphora macdonaldae, a carnivorous plant from Cerro Duida, a remote 2474…

There’s a new addition to the series of BSBI Handbooks: we are delighted to announce that Wild Roses of Great…

Remains of the hybrid white oak (the ‘three worlds oak’) in Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne”What happened to the oak book?”…

The aster family has a lot to offer. It’s really no surprise considering that Asteraceae is the largest family of…

The first African violet I got was an unnamed variety that was called “light blue”.  The plant was small and…

Submit Photos Here This spring, we invite you to capture the blossoming beauty of UBC Botanical Garden and Nitobe Memorial…

For American gardeners, a visit to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew—known simply as Kew Gardens—is both a pilgrimage and a…

Attractive colour and sweet scent are the most common strategies flowers use to advertise their nectar. When pollinators arrive, they…

 By Ellen Dean King’s gold (Tropidocarpum californicum); Image: James Bailey The Rare Plant of the Month blog highlights one of…