On a remote tallgrass prairie in North Dakota, a secretive orchid pokes up from the ground. You’ll only find it if you know ...

The mysterious Dracula vampira, known as the Vampire Orchid, is one of the most dramatic orchids we’ve digitised. Native to ...

Orchids require a sufficient amount of light, water and fertiliser to bloom. However, sometimes, no matter how well you care for your orchid, it refuses to bloom. In a video on TikTok, gardening ...

Plants that self-pollinate include several types of orchids and sunflowers. Dandelions are capable of self-pollination as well as cross-pollination. The remaining 15 percent use bugs, birds ...

Put on a spectacular show with exotic blooms. As orchids start to produce their exotic, sometimes quixotic, blooms in our homes and gardens, you can have them flowering for months, year after year, if ...

It was the Totonac people of Mexico, in around the area that is now Veracruz, who first cultivated the vanilla orchid and processed it into vanilla, which they used for ritual and medicinal purposes.

Therefore, long stems represent an adaptation to aid bat pollination. "This work suggests long stems make bat-flowers more 'visible' to bats in the same way that bright red petals help ...

Planting flowers in urban green spaces across Cornwall "significantly boosted numbers" of pollinating insects, new research has showed. The University of Exeter said it partnered with Cornwall ...

It can be quite upsetting to see your beautiful orchid's blooms drop off and not know the cause. However, there's no need to fear – horticultural experts offer assurance that this doesn't mean the end ...

However, even without blooming, these climbing orchids are striking, and you may be able to entice them to produce creamy-white blooms and vanilla pods with patience and hand-pollination. Vanilla bean ...