When blooms appear on our fruit trees or vegetable gardens, we happily anticipate a bountiful harvest. If the bees help by doing their pollinating job, the fruits and vegetables should begin to ...

Scientists have made a fresh discovery about how flowers reproduce so prolifically. Researchers at Brown University, Rhode Island, in America, have investigated the way flowers control sperm ...

Pollination could be a chaotic disaster. With hundreds of pollen grains growing long tubes to ovules to deliver their sperm to female gametes, how can a flower ensure that exactly two fertile sperm ...

NACOGDOCHES, Texas Just about any other flower would smell sweeter, but that hasn t stopped East Texas plant lovers from admiring the rare blooms of one variety. Braving an odor likened to rotting ...

Many of the gardening queries we receive from our readers complain that the flowers on their plants simply drop off without changing into fruit. They have sometimes waited months or even years hoping ...

In some deserts of the world, a series of heavy rains can trigger many species of plant to flower at the same time. Beneath Death Valley lies a massive seed bank of desert wildflowers and when heavy ...

Many plants, including crops and the beautiful flowers we like to surround ourselves with, rely on pollination for survival. Pollination is not just the work of honeybees. Meet some of the buzzing, ...

Moths have long been seen as the annoying creatures that leave holes in your clothes. But new research suggests that those pesky insects have been badly misjudged. A new study, published this week in ...