A large turf knife thought to date back to the late 1800s has been discovered under the ground at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. The "exciting" artefact was found during excavation work to ...

For any home gardeners who spend their weekends toiling in the backyard to keep their annuals alive and shrubbery in good form, the appeal of a botanical garden is obvious. But even for those ...

Tallest? Heaviest? The Great Banyan in the Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose Botanical Gardens in Kolkata, India, has the world's largest canopy by area, making it a certified W I D E B O I.

ATKINSON 1 has obtained an antibiotic from Psalliota xanthoderma which she has recently named ‘psalliotin’. In 1946 and 1949 she gave an account of the potency of this antibiotic substance ...

There is a provocative question posed within the wall text introducing artist Ash Eliza Willams’ work, now on display at the Denver Botanic Gardens: “What would a rock say if it could talk?” ...

Two people have miraculously walked away with minor injuries after a tree’s limb fell at a festival in Adelaide’s Botanic Park. The incident happened on Monday evening, near a dining area when ...

Nature enthusiasts are invited to commemorate National Gardens Week with free access to all national botanical and zoological gardens this month. The South African National Biodiversity Institute ...

Santuario de la Naturaleza Humedal Río Maipo. Image Cortesía de Fundación Cosmos Whether rising to the highest room of the tallest tower in a Disney-esque castle, giving an admirer the chance ...

Why can’t we just appreciate things for what they are?’ I didn’t have a good answer for him at the time, but if he had been with us in the Nairobi Botanical Garden of the Nairobi National Museum a ...

One thing is for sure: there are plenty of tasks to complete in a garden before the spring planting season. Tasks you should tackle now include stripping away dead growth, deciding which flowers will ...