Birds are customary companions to flowers in nearly every country. In the 19th century, designers incorporated elegant birds in fancy wallpapers, on colorful lampshades, in jewelry and atop the ...

Experts reveal the best native plants to feed birds in winter, including shrubs and perennials that can provide valuable food ...

Love birdwatching? Want a more bird-friendly backyard? It might be time to go beyond the birdfeeder and consider how your yard itself is helping our feathered friends. Spring yard and garden season is ...

Scientists have described the oldest known fossil of a pollinating bird. The well-preserved stomach contents contained pollen from various flowering plants. This indicates that the relationship ...

These perennials, trees, and shrubs provide vital food and shelter for backyard birds through the winter months.

Winter can be a challenge for birds and wildlife, with cold temperatures, long nights, wind, and ice, but keeping the right ...

Flower fanciers have generally forsaken native plants over the years for the fashionable and the flashy, but the robust perennials are quickly becoming garden chic and the center of an ongoing ...

Ecologists who study flowering plants have long believed that flowers evolved with particular sets of characteristics to attract specific pollinators. But a recent article suggests that flowers ...

Scientists have commonly believed life is more colorful in the tropics. A study tested that assumption by measuring color properties in hundreds of species of butterflies, birds, and flowers spanning ...

IN your note on Mr. G. F. Scott-Elliot's paper on this subject (NATURE, July 17, p. 279) you remark: “In accordance with the view of Darwin, but opposed to that of Wallace, Mr. Scott-Elliot believes ...

Wreaths of artificial flowers add easy-to-care-for cheer to entry doors and outside walls. It's a compliment to the industry that I sometimes have to touch to be sure some fabric flowers aren't real.

Pincushion Flower Identification “I saw this beautiful flower (above) while visiting my son in Vermont. What is the name of ...