Sketch of a peony from The Florist (1760) (all images courtesy Peter H. Raven Library/Missouri Botanical Garden) “My personal theory is that in this mid-18th-century time of worldwide exploration, ...

Thomas Baines (1820-75), illustration of Crinum crassicaule (© The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) Cover of Botanical Sketchbooks by Helen and William Bynum (courtesy Princeton ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Out with the blue and in with the new. Sunday is the final day for the “Something Blue” exhibit at the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory in Downtown Fort Wayne. Next ...

STOCKBRIDGE — Which flower has an internal clock that helps it follow the sun as it crosses the sky? How do pitcher plants trap and devour their prey? How does the milkweed plant help make monarch ...

Leaping on a remarkable opportunity to bolster its importance as a major research facility, the Chicago Botanic Garden has purchased one of the world’s premier collections of rare botanical books and ...

“The Gardener’s Botanical: An Encyclopedia of Latin Plant Names with More than 5,000 Entries” by Ross Bayton ($29.95, Princeton University Press): This 352-page hardcover book is a botanist’s dream ...

What: Rare-books event with featured speaker Lester Lefton, president of Kent State University, tour of the Cleveland Botanical Garden's rare-book collection and sale. Where: 11030 East Blvd., ...

The most wonderful thing happened when I was four years old, so thrilling it imprinted as one of my very first memories that to this day remains golden as a summer sunrise, so life-changing it planted ...

A series of hand painted botanical colour drawings have been discovered in a rare 18th century book hidden in an old trunk. A series of hand painted botanical colour drawings have been discovered in a ...

Mr Howell said it took him several years to secure the exhibition in Guernsey A botanical book and artwork have been put on display in Guernsey Museum. The Highgrove Florilegium contains pictures of ...