Chicken of the woods growing on an ash stump. My wife, Elaine, and I are enthusiastic pursuers of wild edibles throughout the year. These natural foods are healthy, tasty, and, well, free. What’s more ...

Follow our list of edible plants with pictures of to forage a world of groceries free for the picking. I learned at an early age that our home in the country was surrounded by groceries “free for the ...

There's no doubt that shade gardens are beautiful, yes, but sometimes they can become a little too ... green. Plants like Hosta plantagineas, or hostas, and Adiantum venustum, or maidenhair ferns, are ...

Newly discovered plant fossils from China, dating back more than 125 million years, may help to establish which seed plants evolved into modern flowering plants. Flowering plants, known as angiosperms ...

Take a look at some of the flowers photographed by Craig Burrows and you might feel as if you’ve suddenly been transported into the alien world of Pandora from James Cameron’s Avatar. Brightly ...

It’s well known that plants have a fine-tuned ability to sense changes in the season by how much daylight they’re exposed to, yet scientists observed more than a century ago that plants sometimes grow ...