The scent of a plant is one of the many reasons we love those flowers. Orchids give off complex scents un-duplicated by perfume manufacturers. What lies lie in the scents of orchids? Dendrobium sinense orchids on the Chinese island of Hainan, mimic...

The mysterious Monarch butterfly, which migrates en masse annually between Canada and Mexico, is now facing a new peril: another insect thriving in Western Mexican forests. Some 8,000 oyamel fir trees — the butterflies’ unique mountain habitat each...

This year I collected my first crop of lemons from my Meyer Lemon tree. The tree’s been here three years. The first two years it bloomed early and I lost the flowers to a late winter chill. I find it’s not uncommon for newly planted plants to be a...

It’s not quite a witness protection program, it’s more of a hide from the climate program. Botanists are collecting seed from several native plants, believed to be endangered by shifting climates and relocating them to more favorable climates. Despite...

A group of researchers at the University of Edinburgh found that Galactic Cosmic Rays cause trees to grow faster. The sun has an 11 year cycle of solar spots, when there is a lull in sunspots there is a lull in solar wind. The solar wind protects us...