The lotus flower means purity, strength, and new beginnings. In Japan, it also stands for the soul rising above hard times. ...

Sweet nectar drops out of honeysuckle blooms in late spring. Kids love to pick the small trumpet flowers and taste the ...

Moonflower opens fast. Really fast. Watch one at dusk. You can see the bloom unfurl in real time. It looks like ...

Bees can’t see red very well. Their eyes pick up blue, green, and UV light. Red sits outside that range. To ...

An exiled English prince once picked this flower as his badge. That was in 1398. His name was Henry Bolingbroke. King ...

Chamomile grows better when you step on it. That’s not a guess. It’s an old English proverb, and it’s actually true. ...

Spider lily does something odd. It blooms with no leaves at all. The leaves grow earlier, in winter. They die back ...

Carnation has a strange trick. Its petals aren’t soft and thin like most flowers. They’re thick. They’re sturdy. Almost waxy. That’s ...

Primrose earns its name honestly. It comes from the Latin word primus. That word means “first.” This flower blooms before almost ...

Freesia has one trick most flowers can’t match. It smells strong from a stem that looks almost too delicate to hold ...

Look closely at a dogwood bloom. What you’re seeing isn’t really a flower. Those four big white petals are actually bracts, ...

White flowers do something odd. They aren’t really “white” at all. Most white petals have no pigment at all inside them. ...