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What are these corn seedlings whispering to each other underground?

Plants Are Communicating With Each Other Using Underground Signals

A new report shows that touching one plant can affect the behavior of its neighbors.

Sarah Laskow May 2, 2018

The giant sequoia.

Seattle, Washington

Seattle's Giant Sequoia Tree

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

Ornamental Pond

Nottingham, England

The Arboretum

This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.

Luther Burbank, at one of his experimental farms in 1901.

America's Greatest Horticulturist Left Behind a Plum Mystery

Frida Kahlo painted him. Thomas Edison admired him. Now Rachel Spaeth is trying to decode him.

Anne Ewbank April 30, 2018

Cacti.

Zurich, Switzerland

Sukkulenten-Sammlung Zürich

See the rare bloom of the "Queen of the Night" cactus at one of the world's largest succulent collections.

<em>Solanum galapagense</em>, one of two species of tomato native to the Galapagos.

Galapagos Tomatoes Are Surprisingly Pest-Resistant

New research reveals that they can protect themselves from a number of common bugs.

Cara Giaimo April 27, 2018

"The Duncan Cedar," in Washington State, is a Western Red Cedar that stands 178 feet tall.

The Quiet Glory of Chronicling America’s Champion Trees

One man's quest to document a nation's arboreal heritage.

Natasha Frost April 26, 2018

Bodnant Hall, Wales

Laburnum Arch

A breathtaking flower tunnel bursts with beautiful golden blossoms.

IV treatment helps Pillalamarri live another day.

A Dying 700-Year-Old Banyan Tree Was Brought Back to Life With an IV

It's clinging to life drip-by-drip.

Christina Ayele Djossa April 20, 2018

The tree.

College Station, Texas

Century Tree

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

Rolls of dressed fiber, South Manchester, Connecticut, 1914.

How Connecticut's Homegrown Silk Industry Unraveled

The problems began with a new variety of mulberry and ended with lumpy thread.

Taryn Skinner April 19, 2018

Visitors stand on a 130-foot-high spiral tower.

Treetop Tower of Rügen

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

The walls of this giardino pantesco (Pantelleria garden) protect one immense citrus tree.

The Ancient Walled Gardens Designed to Nurture a Single Citrus Tree

Giardini Panteschi are found only on the windswept island of Pantelleria.

Kristan Lawson April 18, 2018

Kowloon, Hong Kong

Un Chau Estate Flower Tunnel

In Hong Kong, a fairytale flower tunnel is hidden within the gardens of a public housing complex.

Swan Pond.

Flourtown, Pennsylvania

Morris Arboretum

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

Native sculpture.

San Antonio, Texas

McNutt Sculpture Garden

This hidden sculpture garden full of Wild West art is one of San Antonio's best-kept secrets.

Chicago, Illinois

Zion Evangelical Lutheran 'Ghost Church'

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

The Winter Garden Theatre.

Toronto, Ontario

Winter Garden Theatre

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.