Pitcher Sage, Lepechinia When I first learned about these plants, I thought they were simply unfamiliar salvias, and as a ...

Pitcher plants can be grown outdoors year-round in tropical climates or indoors as houseplants in cooler climates. They grow best with lots of bright light, regular fertilizer or access to insects ...

It was over 5,000 years ago that the ancient Egyptians started bringing plants — most likely ferns and palm trees — indoors ...

The pitcher plant Nepenthes x ventrata is gorgeous and popular with horticulturists, but it’s deadly for the insects that fall into the trap for which it is named. Yet the enzymes in the digestive ...

Carnivorous plants are interesting members of the plant world that have evolved to trap and digest animals, mostly insects, to survive. These plants thrive in places where the soil is poor in ...

Right? Once you’ve hauled yourself up a wet mountainside in pursuit of a pitcher plant, macheted your way to that orchid, or divined the world’s largest flower in your mind’s eye ...