Garden

You don't often find crowds flocking to take in the pungent scent of rotting flesh, yet that's just what happens when a corpse flower blooms at a public garden. But this iconic endangered plant is now facing a new threat – our aversion to paperwork.

Temperatures around the world are on the rise, with 2023 recently confirmed as the hottest since records began. A new study has found that bringing nature into cities could help lower temperatures during heatwaves.

Great news for 80 million (and growing) green thumbs across the country: The USDA has finally released an updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map, its first in 11 years. It highlights both tech advancements and how a warming planet is impacting our gardens.

Magic Dirt is an organic garden and potting mix produced as a result of a process that’s addressing the environmental issues caused by effluence from factory farm feedlots. The process starts with DVO anaerobic digesters, which more efficiently converts manure into three valuable byproducts.

NASA is sending fresh veggies to the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday as it launches its Vegetable Production System (Veggie) aboard the SpaceX Dragon CRS-3 mission.

The TomTato is a new hybrid plant, that grows both tomatoes and potatoes. It isn't is the result of genetic engineering, but is instead made by grafting the top of a cherry tomato plant to the bottom of a white potato plant.

In an effort to bring a dash of green to gray concrete jungles, Catalan landscape artist Marc Grañén teamed up with green wall and roof designer Alex Puig.Grañén to perfect his Phytokinetic concept that adds a roof-top garden to public transport vehicles.

Eden Project is the largest greenhouse in the world.

Architect Vincent Callebaut has designed an amphibious vessel that will wander the rivers of Europe, purifying the water as it goes.

Designers have completed the largest and most biologically diverse living wall in Surrey, British Columbia for Semiahmoo Public Library and RCMP Facility with a design covering nearly 3,000 square feet and consisting of over 10,000 individual plants.

NYU graduate student Marco Castro Cosio has hit upon the idea of planting gardens on some previously wasted space found on city streets – the roofs of buses.

Researchers have built a prototype lunar greenhouse that could allow plants from Earth to be grown without soil on the moon or Mars.