For plant enthusiast Jocelyn Ho, what started off as a hobby during the 2020 COVID-19 shutdown has grown into more than what she expected. Known as the Rare Plant Fairy, Ho, 36, quickly gained a ...

Hawaii is home to some of the most rare and stunning plants in the world. They may be uncommon and wild, but there are ...

Sooner or later, it is said, everything old is new again. But 65 million years old? Bromeliads, which shared the Earth in the Cretaceous Era with dinosaurs, and which have been a staple of indoor ...

The Rare Plant Fairy tropical nursery is hot — a wear-a-T-shirt-and-shorts-in-the-dead-of-Michigan-winter level of warmth. Even during the cold, gray and brutal February, the room is kept at 75 ...

Jaime Beutel’s apartment isn’t your typical Bay Area dwelling. At roughly 600 square feet, her home is more akin to a miniature rainforest, where more than 150 tropical plants flourish. Some are found ...

Bromeliads are a wonderful group of tropical plants that are understandably popular: They are easy to grow, colorful and stay in bloom for a long time. Because they are not cold hardy, we grow them in ...

Alessia Resta’s 750-square-foot apartment in New York City housed more than 200 plants before she and her boyfriend transported them to New Jersey last month. She started collecting when she was 25 ...

The tropics is home to a great many plant species with flamboyantly colorful flowers and foliage. This may raise an eyebrow or two, but perhaps it’s time we temperate climate gardeners toss our ...

On Hawaii’s ‘Garden Island’ of Kauai, botanists stage search-and-rescue missions to head off extinction of native plant species. M. waimeaensis is just one of hundreds of plants disappearing as ...

Under certain circumstances, a rare tropical plant develops into a carnivore. A research team has now deciphered the mechanism responsible for this. Triphyophyllum peltatum is a unique plant. Native ...