Discover what to do with an orchid in February. We talk through 3 essentials to do this month and one thing that must be ...

Give your plant new life with these expert-approved tips.

Mr. Flower Fantastic, guest designer for the New York Botanical Garden’s Orchid Show, lets his art speak for itself, never showing his face. Mr. Flower Fantastic, guest designer for the New York ...

Imagine discovering that your pearl necklace was actually a string of parasites gorging themselves on your bodily fluids. That’s what happened to a baby spider in Brazil. But instead of helping the ...

A brawl between young hockey players during intermission of an AHL game is being investigated. Bruce Bennett / Getty Images There are multiple investigations into a brawl between young hockey players ...

New York City was blossoming on the unseasonably warm evening of February 27th, and it might have been most obvious at the Plaza Hotel where the New York Botanical Garden hosted its annual Orchid ...

If your once-vigorous plant is starting to look sickly, spider mites may be the culprits. These tiny, plant-feeding arachnids hide in plain sight. At first, your plant may look a little “off,” but you ...

Kobe University researchers found that orchids rely on wood-decaying fungi to germinate, feeding on the carbon from rotting logs. Their seedlings only grow near deadwood, forming precise fungal ...

Just when I thought my volunteer cherry tomato plant would continue to thrive into its second year, it became infested with spider mites and had to be removed. Last September, it had sprouted in the ...

For the past decade, I’ve mooched off housemates and their mishmash of home appliances to keep my floors clean. That ended last month when I moved and needed to buy my own vacuum cleaner. No big deal, ...

Feeling itchy? You may have the latest brood of cicadas to blame. The estimated trillions of periodical brood cicadas that emerged in multiple U.S. states this year may be gone for the foreseeable ...