Flora

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Underground farm located in a former bank vault deep within the bowels of Tokyo's business district.

The loneliest plant in the world resides at the Durban Botanic Gardens...mostly.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

Lombardy poplars planted to imitate the size and shape of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Reims.

The most northerly active sand dunes in the world have some very rare botanical residents.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

Billed as the "largest natural flower garden in the world" this Middle Eastern show field has little competition at 45 million flowers.

One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.