Night-Blooming Jasmine, also known as Cestrum nocturnum, is renowned for its intoxicating fragrance that fills the air after dark. This evergreen shrub produces small, tubular flowers that release ...

Moonflowers are a rare nocturnal beauty blooming only once, perfect for nighttime gardeners. Corpse flowers emit a foul odor to attract pollinators and can grow up to 10 feet tall. The Queen of the ...

It promptly refills pawed-over flowers with a fresh supply of nectar and nudges other blooms to unfold. Ochroma is just getting started. Throughout the night and into the next morning, the trees ...

Several weeks ago, I was pleasantly surprised to see that my cereus cactus had formed a huge bud. I began to watch at dusk for signs of opening, and on the night of Aug. 19, during the August ...

Each bat makes several hundred flower visits every night. Mucuna holtonii, with their exploding mechanism and generous snort of nectar, are among the rare flowers that warrant actual landings.

If you want your flowering garden to survive late into fall, then plant some late bloomers that will continue making your ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The second full ... its own color but for the color of spring flowers that bloom at this time of year. It was best seen at ...

After dark with the animals, plants and fungi that conduct much of their lives while humans are asleep.

Like many people I enjoy the poetic cadence Ecclesiastes 3. “For everything, there is a season.” Last year I planted a row of ...

Orchids are beautiful houseplants that can be difficult to maintain if you don't understand their needs so one expert has ...