The idea of flesh-eating plants may seem like the stuff of horror films, but we do have a few carnivorous wild plants in ...

Being carnivorous simply helps the plants make the most of all available resources. The habitats of carnivorous plants are varied but usually involve wet, low-nutrient sites including bogs, swamps, ...

Outside the Midlands, most peatlands in Ireland, especially in the West, are described as blanket bog. They form in areas ...

Jahnavi Harrison explains how the lotus is a plant that, for those educated in an eastern spiritual context, evokes layers of meaning and narrative. For Hindus, the beautiful and arresting lotus ...

Hundreds of carnivorous plants were displayed this weekend at Bogotá’s botanical garden in an exhibit that invited visitors ...

Peat is an unusual kind of soil that forms in rainy areas with poor drainage, so the earth becomes waterlogged. In the UK, ...

Such a unique ability enables them to thrive in nutrient-deficient soil, where other plants struggle. Native to bogs and ...

Peat bogs may not be unique to Ireland ... (2023-25), the fragile aromas of bog life are held by samples of earth and plants in old-fashioned scientific containers. Visitors are invited to ...