Walk into a temperate forest in April and again in August and you’d swear you visited two different places. The April version is open and bright, the floor carpeted in…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines packs an absurd amount of plant life into 32 islands and cays. You get cloud forest on the flanks of La Soufrière, dry scrub on…
The tulip you grow in your garden has Uzbek roots. Not Dutch ones. Centuries before Holland built an economy on tulip bulbs, wild tulips were carpeting the foothills of the…
Roughly a third of Bulgaria is forest, and most “trees of Bulgaria” pages you’ll find are either a 150-name Latin database or a folklore essay that never tells you what…
Look up in a tropical rainforest and most of the orchids aren’t in the soil. They’re 30 meters overhead, wedged into the bark of a branch, roots dangling in open…
There’s a difference between “exotic” and “rare,” and most lists blur it. A dragon fruit at your local grocery store is exotic to someone who grew up on apples and…
The grandalla is the plant most Andorrans will name first, and it sets the tone for everything else that grows here. It’s a wild narcissus — white petals, a small…
Pink is the most versatile color in a flower garden. It spans from barely-blush to almost-red, reads as romantic without being loud, and plays well with nearly every other flower…
Peru doesn’t have one fruit scene. It has three. The coast, the Andes highlands, and the Amazon basin each produce fruits so different from each other that calling them all…