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A visitor expects to encounter many native and exotic plants at the Memphis Botanic Garden, which offers 96 acres of trails, gardens and woodland as a tranquil alternative to the scurry and hurry ...

The annual Free Days calendar from the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District has been released, covering the metro area’s biggest nonprofit institutions, from the Denver Art Museum and the ...

Within minutes of slipping into the back rooms of the Australian Botanic Garden at Mount Annan, on Sydney’s south-western fringe, it is clear the research facility is more akin to a zoo than a ...

At 83 acres, the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is one of the largest of its kind in the country. With a surplus of tropical plants and other beautiful greenery, you'll likely find the ...

Hold your noses: One of the world's stinkiest flowers, which smells like deceased, rotting flesh, is about to bloom at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Even though this might sound like the stuff of ...

The Denver Botanic Gardens is heeding that warning and closing for three days. Friday through Tuesday are Pinpoint Weather Alert Days as an arctic blast moves through Colorado, bringing subzero ...

If you're looking for some peace and serenity after a long day on the Royal Mile, the Royal Botanic Gardens are the perfect place for a calming stroll. This garden, which covers 70 acres ...

Each year, in the frigid depths of a mid-winter night, the sun dances above the main street in the Dandenong Ranges town of Belgrave ... flowers at home in the garden,” she says.

An Amorphophallus titanum or titan arum, commonly known as the corpse flower, has bloomed at the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra for the first time. The 15-year-old plant started ...

A second corpse flower has begun to bloom at Sydney's Botanic Gardens. The plant, Putricia's "sibling", will not be displayed to the public and will be kept in the nursery to better control ...

More than 16,000 people have already visited Putricia since Friday, and the Botanic Gardens will stay open until midnight tonight to accommodate visitors who want to enjoy the stink in all its glory.