Many people start seeds indoors in late winter to have seedlings ready to plant in spring. But what about starting them outdoors, despite the cold?

Recently, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York, I had a dream come true. I got a whiff of one of the world’s stinkiest ...

A rare flower known for its smell of rotting flesh bloomed for the first time since its planting over 10 years ago at the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra, drawing plant lovers to the ...

There is something about the stench of corpse flowers that draws curious people far and wide when the giant blooms spew their putrid aroma for all to smell. Such was the case in Canberra, ...

It's been 15 years since the foul-smelling flower showed its petals in Sydney, but the rare Amorphophallus titanum – also known as a corpse flower – is finally blooming. AddedJan 23rd ...

Standing five feet away, I could smell it in the air. Acrid, damp, toe-curling—a memory from my past. The nose is a powerful historian, so it took only a few seconds to place it: the stench of the rat ...