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SOME FLOWERS GIVE OFF BLUE HALO AS WAY TO SAY HELLO TO FORAGING BEES
Bees are drawn to the color blue, but it's hard for flowers to make that color in their petals... READ MORE›
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PESTICIDES STOP BEES BUZZING AND RELEASING POLLEN, SAYS STUDY
Researchers find neonicotinoid insecticides harm ability of bees to vibrate flowers and shake out pollen to fertilise crops... READ MORE›
B&Q TO STOP SELLING PLANTS GROWN WITH BEE-HARMING PESTICIDES
All flowering plants sold by B Q are to be grown without using pesticides that are harmful to bees, the retailer has announced... READ MORE›
INSIDE KEW'S TROPICAL NURSERY - THE SECRET GREENHOUSE WHERE THE WORLD'S RAREST PLANT LIFE BEGINS
This just one of shaggy dog stories that Lara Jewitt, Kew's Nurseries Manager, tells as she shows me around the gardens' tropical nursery... READ MORE›
BABY AND FOUR OTHERS FIGHT FOR LIFE AS TRIBUTES FLOW FOR VICTIMS OF MELBOURNE CARNAGE
Floral tributes continue to build in Melbourne's Bourke Street mall to remember the four killed and the many injured by a rogue driver on Friday... READ MORE›
4-YEAR-OLD CANCER PATIENT 'MARRIES' FAVOURITE NURSE IN DREAM COME TRUE
A four-year-old cancer patients dreams came true when she got to marry her favourite nurse complete with cake, rings, pink toy car and rose petals... READ MORE›
HUSBAND PLANTS THOUSANDS OF FLOWERS FOR TWO YEARS TO MAKE HIS BLIND WIFE SMILE AGAIN
Japan may be famous for its cherry blossom at this time of year, but in Miyazaki Prefecture people flock to see a different floral spectacle... READ MORE›
SPRING COMING EARLIER IN US SCIENTISTS
The findings published on Wednesday in Environmental Research Letters suggest even bigger shifts in the plant calendar due to climate change than had been expected... READ MORE›
GIANT 'CORPSE FLOWER' BEGINS TO BLOOM FOR FIRST TIME IN FIVE YEARS
Named Morphy, the titan arum housed at Dartmouth College began opening on Friday afternoon at the Ivy League college's life sciences greenhouse... READ MORE›
'WORSE THAN ONE THOUSAND PUKES': FETID CORPSE FLOWER OVERWHELMS NEW YORK
In the coming days, corpse flowers in Washington DC, Indianapolis and Sarasota, Florida, are expected to bloom... READ MORE›
THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF OUR HUNGER FOR VALENTINE'S ROSES
Conflict over water and other resources is common in Kenya... READ MORE›
THE WORLD'S FIRST FLOWER? PLANT WITH NO PETALS THAT LIVED UNDERWATER IS 130 MILLION YEARS OLD
Experts dated the weed at between 125 million and 130 million years old and showed that despite appearances it was an angiosperm or flowering plant... READ MORE›
BLOOMING JANUARY! WILDFLOWER SPECIES THINK SPRING'S HERE
From London's Walthamstow marshes to Thirsk in North Yorkshire, the mayflower has been in unprecedented early bloom... READ MORE›
A BIRD OF BEAUTY LAID TO REST IN THE LINGERING FRAGRANCE OF SUMMER
On the garden table the beer bottle stood as a totem of its only season... READ MORE›
CORALROOT, A RARE BEAUTY AMONG THE OLD GRAVES
Grasses have grown long and a parish record of wildflowers has been left to reveal itself... READ MORE›
DUTCH TOWN HARD HIT BY MH17 DISASTER REMEMBERS VICTIMS WITH SUNFLOWERS
The seeds from those plants are to be given away at a memorial service at St Vitus on Friday, a year after the crash... READ MORE›
HOW UNWANTED BUNCHES OF FLOWERS SPARKED A BUSINESS IDEA FOR NEW MUMS
It was the flower overload that sparked a business idea in Douglas' mind with a very literal name Don't Buy Her Flowers... READ MORE›
BETTER THAN MONEY - YELLOW-RATTLE'S PRICELESS GIFTS
As I write I have a small canvas bag of yellow-rattle seed on my desk... READ MORE›
SOCIAL CLIMBER WITH A CRUSTY BARK
Country Diary Wenlock Edge Plumed seedheads of travellers joy hold light in the lane with a glow of their own... READ MORE›
REVITALISED AND CALMED BY AN ENGLISH WOOD IN SPRING
This Forestry Commission-owned, largely broadleaf-planted, forest has mixed ground flora bluebells, yellow lesser celandines and white wood anemones are scattered like an array of colourful stars... READ MORE›
DILIGENT INSECTS IN THE SUMMER GARDEN
There's a low hum from bumblebees foraging deep inside the nearby comfrey flowers, but I'm interested in a different type of bee... READ MORE›
A WOODLAND HERB OF SUBTLE CHARM
A woodland specialist, sanicle has glossy leaves with toothed edges and a tracery of pale raised veins... READ MORE›
THE HOTTEST PLACE ON EARTH IS COVERED IN WILDFLOWERS AFTER HEAVY AUTUMN RAIN
Death Valley The hottest place on Earth is covered in wildflowers after heavy autumn rain... READ MORE›
BELGIUM'S 'FAIRY TALE FOREST' UNDER THREAT FROM TRAMPLING TOURISTS
Only time will tell if the flower carpet can survive the invasion of iPhone-wielding tourists 100 years after it survived the Germans... READ MORE›
HONEYSUCKLE CLIMBS FOR SUNLIGHT IN THE WOOD'S DEEP SHADOW
Some small flies resting on the flowers were almost certainly Chromatomyia aprilina, whose leaf-mining larvae feed inside honeysuckle leaves... READ MORE›
SAVING LONDON'S BEES ONE TAG AT A TIME
Scientists in London are using a novel technique to save the world's bees tagging hundreds of the insects to track their movements around cities... READ MORE›
BEE POPULATION CRISIS: NORWAY BUILDS WORLD'S FIRST HIGHWAY MEANT ONLY FOR BEES
Food production could be severely affected, since nearly 30 to 40 percent of food production takes place due to natural pollination... READ MORE›
AMBER-ENTOMBED FLOWER MAY HAVE BEEN TOXIC
A newly identified and exquisitely preserved flower found entombed in amber -- fossilized tree sap -- may have packed quite a punch... READ MORE›
PLANT FROM 130 MILLION YEARS AGO IS AMONG FIRST FLOWERS STUDY
Dilcher said the seed "is borne upside down."... READ MORE›
HOLD YOUR NOSE: STINKY CORPSE FLOWER BLOOMS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
Named Morphy, the titan arum -- or corpse flower -- began opening Friday afternoon at the Ivy League college's Life Sciences Greenhouse... READ MORE›
BLOOMING CORPSE FLOWERS DRAW CROWDS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Meanwhile, a nursery in Sebastopol, about 50 miles north of San Francisco, is anticipating that its corpse flower will bloom next weekend... READ MORE›