Most plants get on just fine with sunshine, water, and half-decent soil. Carnivorous plants don’t have that option. They tend to live in places where the soil is so poor in nutrients that normal roots ...

Not having luck growing carnivorous plants at home? Jacob Soule talks carnivorous plant soil requirements, pitcher plant varieties, sundew plant care, and more. In this episode of Mother Earth News ...

Sage or salvia (Salvia spp.) flowers have a shape that perfectly accommodates the long, narrow beaks and lengthy tongues of hummingbirds, which they use to reach inside blooms and suck up the nectar.

Carnivorous plants have fed our imaginations since the dawn of our time. Charles Darwin called the most popular variety, the Venus flytrap, the “most wonderful plant on earth.” Even the film The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pitcher plants can be grown outdoors year-round in tropical climates or indoors as houseplants in cooler climates. They grow best ...

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Dr. Phil Sheridan from the Meadowview Biological Research Station visits the studio to talk with Peggy about bog plants and dissect a pitcher plant to see how many insects it can trap. Featured on VHG ...

Matthew M. Kaelin, “Voluptuous temptation in carnal bliss” (May 13, 2012), Nepenthes lowii x ventricosa ‘The Succubus’ cultivar (courtesy the artist) Matthew M. Kaelin cultivates the beautiful, fatal ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A new kind of greenery is taking root in the Triad, and it bites! Carnivorous Plants by Kenny Coogan, Winston-Salem’s largest carnivorous plant nursery, will make its debut at ...

In Florida’s wetlands the carnivorous pitcher plant is blurring the lines between predator and ally. In Florida’s wetlands, the carnivorous pitcher plant is blurring the lines between predator and ...