Best Botanical Garden
Enjoy a peaceful escape with a visit to one of these stunning botanical gardens chosen by our featured panelists.
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The squirting cucumber that’s been explosively launching seeds since ancient times
Scientists have finally uncovered how the squirting cucumber achieves its explosive seed dispersal through a sophisticated ...
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Back to Our Roots: Students Have Opportunity to Experience Horticulture in Scotland and England
A study abroad class, Great Gardens and Horticulture of Scotland and England, will take students into the horticultural roots of present-day American horticulture this May. Learn more.
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Corpse flowers smell like death, but thousands rush to see them bloom
Sydney's corpse flower attracts thousands of people with its rare blossom and its stench of rotting flesh, offering a ...
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Saving Earth's most endangered plants from extinction is proving to be very difficult
Discover how botanic gardens worldwide are striving to combat plant extinction through innovation, collaboration, and ...
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Rare and Stinky ‘Corpse Flower’ Blooms Draw Thousands of Visitors to Gardens in New York and Sydney
People lined up to see—and smell—the blossoms of two pungent plant species, which only bloom for a short time every few years ...
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Have You Seen This? New Yorkers hoping to get whiff of 'rotten corpse' flower
A bloom of a flower known as the 'corpse flower' in New York has attracted huge crowds hoping to get a glimpse and sniff of the rare event.
Botanic gardens must team up to save wild plants from extinction, say researchers
A major study of botanic gardens around the world has revealed their struggles with one fundamental aim: to safeguard the ...
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Botanic Gardens must team up to save wild plants from extinction
The world's botanic gardens must pull together to protect global plant biodiversity in the face of the extinction crisis, amid restrictions on wild-collecting, say researchers.
What's rare, reeks like dirty feet and rotting garbage − and New Yorkers want a whiff?
A 'perfectly putrid' corpse flower is drawing crowds at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden as it blooms for the first time since its ...
Rare corpse flower blooms at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, crowds drawn to its "stinky cheese, foot smell"
A rare corpse flower bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where people waited in line for hours Saturday to get a whiff of ...
Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse
One by one, visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden pulled out their phones snap pictures of the rare blooming plant before ...