Botanical gardens provide a peaceful retreat into the lap of nature, displaying various species of plants from all over the world ...

The vanilla species grown for its flavoring is finicky. Genes from its wild relatives could help make it hardier — but not if those cousins go extinct.

Vanilla flavoring is widely used in food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. The primary source, Vanilla planifolia, however, is ...

Oct. 16 – Avid orchid collector Courtney Hackney, emeritus professor of biology and the former director of coastal biology at ...

Don’t just hope to find some pretty wildflowers while on a leisurely walk. Go walking specifically to find wildflowers on that wish list you made one evening instead of watching television. Go ...

Drew and Susan Goss spent 15 years catching early flights from Chicago to New Orleans on Sunday mornings. They would settle ...

These days, some 13,000 of them fill Chadwick and Son Orchids Inc. ’s main greenhouse, deep in the woods of Powhatan County. ...

Angela Hiroko Goya, 99, of Hilo, died May 18 at her sister’s home. Born in Hilo, she was a retired registered nurse/anesthetist for the former Hilo Hospital. Private service held. No flowers or koden ...

If you're cultivating an epiphytic orchid variety, it's possible to grow your flowers completely in water — no fancy growing ...

If you want to make the most out of each tumble dryer cycle, try some of these tricks for reusing the condenser water ...

If you love the idea of tropical flowers for an indoor garden, but prefer more leafage and fewer florets, the chlorophytum orchidastrum ‘green orange’ houseplant is the spider plant variety for you.

There are fewer than 1,000 ghost orchids in Florida. Support to protect the ghost orchid as an endangered species.