Growing your own food doesn’t always require a garden, soil-filled pots, or large outdoor space. With just a few glass jars and a sunny windowsill, you can cultivate fresh, edible plants right inside ...

Although winter may keep many of us out of our gardens, it doesn't have to keep us from crafting and growing our plant-related passions. And that stash of jars in our cupboards can be just the thing ...

Peggy Singlemann visits Dr. Phil Sheridan at Meadowview Biological Research Station in Woodford to learn about pitcher plants and explore a rare gravel bog ecosystem where these unique native plants ...

THIS VENUS FLYTRAP HAS CAUGHT SOME PREY. I’M HERE AT VALLEY VIEW FARMS FOR SUNDAY GARDENER. I’M HERE WITH CARRIE INGLE. AND YOU KNOW, WHEN PEOPLE THINK OF CARNIVOROUS PLANTS, THEY THINK OF VENUS ...

A recent Cambridge study reveals why sticky liquids don't always spread evenly, knowledge that could help cut waste, improve product quality and make everyday technologies more reliable. The research, ...

This week, I shift my focus toward bogs, away from lakes and ponds. There is certainly some overlap between these two habitats, but if you find yourself in a majority-bog ecosystem, then you will see ...

PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON / The sumptuous wine-red leaves of the Northern pitcher plant are extremely attractive and potentially deadly to insects. Note the downward-pointing “hairs” on the lid of the ...

North Carolina has 36 carnivorous plant species, including 15 native to the Wilmington area. The Green Swamp Preserve boasts a remarkable diversity of carnivorous plants, with at least 14 different ...

I’d been bent at the hip like a cartoon detective, snooping around the trail’s edges, for over an hour. Covered in streaks of my own blood, courtesy of the recently satiated mosquitoes I swatted off ...

Julian Shepersky, 18, of Albany, holds the hybrid American pitcher plant he created, which features white and red tube-like pitchers on the same plant. He has filed to have the genetically unique ...

Tucked into bogs, you’ll find one of Minnesota’s most unusual — and carnivorous — plants, which is easiest to spot this time of year when reddish-purple flowers tower above their unusual leaves.

FAIRHOPE, Ala. (WALA) - After being under repair for nearly two years, the Pitcher Plant Bog at Weeks Bay Reserve has reopened to the public. As this project wraps up, another one at the Bay Watch ...