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Flowers

Researchers attempt to grow wild orchids in greenhouses.

In Zambia, a Craze for a Traditional Treat Is Endangering Wild Orchids

Researchers are teaming up to save chikanda.

Reina Gattuso March 1, 2019

Medellín, Colombia

Parque Arvi

Located outside Medellín, this Colombian park focuses on conservation and sustainability.

Picking the Mohammadi rose in Qamsar.

Kashan Rose Water Festival

Iran’s annual celebration of its signature flower makes this desert region fragrant.

Black Tulip Museum main entrance.

Lisse, Netherlands

Black Tulip Museum

A journey through 430 years of bulbiculture in the Netherlands.

Wildflowers are beginning to poke through in areas impacted by the Woolsey Fire.

Last Year’s Severe Wildfires May Intensify a Spring Wildflower ‘Superbloom’

Fire followed by rain is the recipe for colorful fields and canyons.

Evan Nicole Brown February 7, 2019

Los Angeles, California

Self-Realization Fellowship Meditation Gardens

This peaceful garden is hidden on the grounds of a spiritual organization founded by a pioneer yogi.

A movable glasshouse protects the camellia in winter.

Dresden, Germany

Pillnitz Camellia

An engineering wonder at Pillnitz Castle protects a precious 230-year-old flowering shrub.

A baby having a photoshoot.

Leiden, Netherlands

Victoria Amazonica

People have been placing babies on these lilies for photoshoots since the Victorian era.

Lemon Stick

This taste bud befuddler is a signature Baltimore sweet.

Bright flowers in bloom.

The Art of Protecting Japan's 'Perfect Orchid'

Once a favorite of the ruling class, this flower is now endangered.

Evan Nicole Brown December 11, 2018

Tulip Vodka

Flower bulbs are the main ingredient of this quintessentially Dutch spirit.

Dockey Wood Bluebells

Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.

Locals from Val Germanasca foraging wild herbs to make Serpui, a grappa seasoned with wild thyme that is typical of northwest Italy.

Reviving the Lost Tradition of Cooking Flowers

It was once common across rural Italy.

Vittoria Traverso November 12, 2018

Two of Tanaka's botanical watercolor paintings. <em>Jack in the Pulpit</em> on left, <em>Mountain Laurel</em> on right.

How One Woman Transforms Plants Into Pigment

Kazumi Tanaka paints the natural world with the essence of flowers.

Evan Nicole Brown November 7, 2018

Minna Fernald's painting of fewflower milkweed.

Found: A Lost Painting Collection of Florida Wildflowers

An amateur artist captured now-rare flowers in great detail.

Sarah Laskow November 5, 2018

The Hydrangea Train

Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.

Historical markers at Willa Cather Memorial Prairie.

Red Cloud, Nebraska

Willa Cather Prairie

Over 600 acres of idyllic open grassland honor Nebraska’s georgic storyteller.

A meadow of wildflowers above Paradise, ca. 2005.

In Washington State, Volunteer Scientists Study Flowers to Battle Climate Dread

The data they're collecting is helping researchers evaluate how ecosystems change.

Jane C. Hu October 8, 2018