BATIMORE, Md. — Inside the plant shop B. Willow, owner Liz Vayda carefully tends to her livelihood. “Plants are the basis of life,” she said. Yet, they’re also the basis of something else: a lucrative ...

The Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix is one of 62 other gardens, arboretums and zoos that take in rescued cactus and succulents. Cactuses are the fifth-most endangered group of living things in the ...

At a very young age, Kevin Zhang learned that gardening was not for the faint of heart. Some of his earliest memories are of ...

While South Africa battles rampant tender corruption, criminal syndicates are targeting the country’s prized ornamental ...

This large sized, attention-grabbing orchid was embroiled in controversy almost as soon as it was described. An American collector, Michael Kovach, bought the plant from a road-side vendor in Peru in ...

Globally, one in five plants are close to extinction. That is equivalent to 40% of our flora vanishing in the next decades. The global demand for endemic and rare plant species has increased because ...

Under a tent shrouded in shade cloth at the Desert Botanical Garden, a place known for its showy cactus displays and wildflower blooms, sits a curious collection of inconspicuous plants that could be ...