Horticulture

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

This restored colonial house was once home to the botanist responsible for bringing avocados to the U.S.

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

The Bloemen Route, or “Flower Route”, stretches 25 miles through prime Dutch tulip country as a result of “tulip mania,” the world’s first economic bubble.

This ornate English estates "Prodigy House" still bears the cannonball marks of civil war.

Unsurprisingly, Holland is home to one of the most magnificent flower gardens in the world.

The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.

Said to be the only museum in the world dedicated to the most classic of all blooms, the rose.