If you love someone, you give them flowers - Nigel Chaffey discovers there's also good reason to take away flowers too from the things you hate.

Most plants are essentially rooted to a spot and immobile. While the factors they need for growth – e.g. sunlight, minerals, and water – are often present in the environment, they aren’t always close enough to the plant to be used fully. Nature has overcome this problem by giving plants the remarkably ability for some […]

The idea that plants can hear is controversial, but Nigel Chaffey finds the evidence keeps building.

Nigel Chaffey discovers that more plants thought to leave pollination to luck possess the power of puppetry.

Inspiration for these plant-based blog items can come from the most unlikely of sources. This one in particular had a strange (and offbeat…) beginning. Whilst researching an item about the use of drones in botany I noticed a link on that ‘page’ to another item entitled “How X-Rays Helped to Solve Mystery of Floating Rocks […]

Until this item, the last launch of a new plant journal I shared with you was for the august publication Nature Plants (although in its 3rd year of publication, it still awaits an Impact Factor. Will it get one before before such metrics are considered dead? Nigel wrote this quite a bit in advance, Jeffrey […]

Nigel Chaffey finds a seasonal epiphyte with a head for heights.

It seems we can expect the Arctic to go green in future years - but that won't be good news for species threatened by Climate Change.

For a plant life on the edge, like on a cliff face, should be peaceful. But Nigel Chaffey discovers one species has a real talent for annoying others.

There's more than one way for a pathogen to gain access to healthy leaf.

From tusks to teeth, plants can step in where animals break down.

Some say fruit is connected to human intelligence, but is the idea a peach or completely bananas?