One of the things we gardeners rarely celebrate is the origin of our favorite plants. Yet we enjoy flowers, vegetables and potted plants from all over the world, including from our own woodlands and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Halfway around the world from the Front Range and in a different hemisphere lie mountains with growing conditions similar to the Rockies. And the plant life ...

African ecosystems and biodiversity are biologically and ecologically unique, attract substantial tourism revenue, and provide significant ecosystem services at local, regional and global levels. It ...

As California’s drought stretches into the future, the plants of Earth’s five Mediterranean climate zones attract gardeners’ interest and soon earn their appreciation. Many of these plants are fine ...

Let's begin the year with an armchair journey to southern Africa, a region that, for gardeners, may prompt images of succulents and bulbs: Plants that must endure seasonally arid conditions. But some ...

Africa’s “Great Green Wall” initiative is a proposed 8,000-kilometer line of trees meant to hold back the Sahara from expanding southward. New climate simulations looking to both the region’s past and ...

Let's begin the year with an armchair journey to southern Africa, a region that, for gardeners, may prompt images of succulents and bulbs: Plants that must endure seasonally arid conditions. But some ...

Africa exhibits some of the oldest species of vegetation on the planet, in rich variety and subject to harsh climatic extremes. Tall trees, creepers, carnivorous and giant plants dominate the tropical ...

Mesquite (Neltuma juliflora), a woody plant native to parts of South America, was introduced into South Africa's drylands in the 1880s with good intentions. Bringing it to South Africa was meant to ...