Tallest tree destroyed in storm 'like loss of an old friend'
Edinburgh's tallest tree - a 166-year-old Himalayan cedar - was one of thousands that fell victim to the devastating gusts ...
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Greenwich Park among Go Outdoors' best places for picnic
Go Outdoors recently revealed the top 10 UK parks, gardens and greenspaces to visit for a picnic, based on how popular they are on social media, and four south London locations made the list. In total ...
Visit these 4 botanical gardens on your next road trip, all within 600 miles of Cincy
Out of the 12 best botanical gardens in the U.S., half of them are within 600 miles of Cincinnati. Here are four of them ...
From gardens to beaches: Ethel Carrick’s dazzling Australian sketches
Two small paintings of a summer’s day in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden are the most surprising works, to my mind, in the National Gallery of Australia’s Ethel Carrick exhibition. They were both ...
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Back to Our Roots: Students Have Opportunity to Experience Horticulture in Scotland and England
A study abroad class, Great Gardens and Horticulture of Scotland and England, will take students into the horticultural roots of present-day American horticulture this May. Learn more.
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Corpse flowers smell like death, but thousands rush to see them bloom
Sydney's corpse flower attracts thousands of people with its rare blossom and its stench of rotting flesh, offering a ...
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Saving Earth's most endangered plants from extinction is proving to be very difficult
Discover how botanic gardens worldwide are striving to combat plant extinction through innovation, collaboration, and ...
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Rare and Stinky ‘Corpse Flower’ Blooms Draw Thousands of Visitors to Gardens in New York and Sydney
People lined up to see—and smell—the blossoms of two pungent plant species, which only bloom for a short time every few years ...
We're devastated at losing Edinburgh's tallest tree
The 166 year-old Himalayan cedar was planted in Edinburgh during a visit by Queen Victoria's son, Albert.
Botanic gardens must team up to save wild plants from extinction, say researchers
A major study of botanic gardens around the world has revealed their struggles with one fundamental aim: to safeguard the ...
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Botanic Gardens must team up to save wild plants from extinction
The world's botanic gardens must pull together to protect global plant biodiversity in the face of the extinction crisis, amid restrictions on wild-collecting, say researchers.
Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse
One by one, visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden pulled out their phones snap pictures of the rare blooming plant before ...