October is Native Plant Month in Florida. Here's how you can use native plants in your yard for year-round enjoyment.

Looking to elevate your Florida landscape game? Consider adding stunning flowering trees to provide shade, height, fragrance, and a pop of color to make your yard the standout of the neighborhood.

In the words of Walter Judd, a botanist at the University of Florida, "If it weren't for flowering plants, we humans wouldn't be here." From oaks and palms to wildflowers and water lilies ...

The Florida semaphore cactus, on the other hand, has a dull gray, fleshy stem and can grow to reach a lofty 6 feet, bearing small, scale-like, reddish-orange flowers. Finally, the aboriginal prickly ...

It is not rare, and is in fact fairly common from eastern Canada to Wisconsin, and south along the coastal plain well into ...

Plant Doctor Tom MacCubbin gives advice on gardening in Florida including care of American beautyberry, bromeliads, azaleas, ...

From a flower which resembles a brain to a three-metre-tall plant that smells of rotting flesh, sometimes the natural world is more horrifying than any fiction. Discover this creepy collection of ...

Scientists think they have the answer to a puzzle that baffled even Charles Darwin: How flowers evolved and spread to become the dominant plants on Earth. Flowering plants, or angiosperms ...

When I started writing this article, I searched for the best word to describe how plants attract bees, ants, wasps, butterflies, and even bats to help with pollination. Five words came to mind ...

They are attracted to our garden flowers that provide nectar and pollen for them. But for their long-term survival, they depend on native plants to provide the vast majority of their food.

Unlike animals, plants don’t need a male and a female because their flowers have both male parts and female parts. Pollen in plants is like sperm in animals. It comes from the male part of the ...