Growing a primitive garden presents various challenges, including physically demanding preparation and ongoing battles with wildlife such as rabbits, rats, insects, and deer. These animals can quickly ...

In 2017, FLORIDA TODAY ran an article about the Atala butterfly that was previously thought to be extinct but had been discovered again. Since that time, the butterflies have made a resurgence and ...

Dinosaurs are such popular reptiles these days that it seems appropriate to plan a garden in which they would feel at home. A number of plants whose leaves rustled at the swish of dinosaurs tails are ...

A LONG TIME AGO, not so far away, freshwater plants partnered with fungi and moved onto land from lake and river shores. Since that time, land plants have evolved many sophisticated strategies for ...

In her graceful and engaging book, “Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses,” Robin Wall Kimmerer first warns us about what mosses are not: “The word ‘moss’ is commonly applied to ...