From her fifth-floor office in the National Museum of Natural History, Alice Tangerini has a stellar view: to the right, Constitution Avenue runs in front of the Classical Revival facade of Federal ...

Molly Brown has always loved hanging out with plants. Growing up in Connecticut, she spent her days exploring a nearby 40-acre lot she “knew like the back of her hand,” picking flowers and drawing ...

Take a look at a garden or landscape. You probably see some plants. Now focus in on one plant. Depending on the season, you might see stems, leaves, buds, flowers, seeds. You might note spines and ...

Despite its irrefutable success — founded in 1891 and now receiving one million visitors a year — the New York Botanical Garden’s staff tirelessly finds innovative ways to stimulate visitors’ ...

Art is everywhere, including in nature. Case in point: The Living Art Festival on Miami Beach is a botanical art installation that fuses natural elements with artistic creativity. The festival was ...

Whether you have a green thumb or wish you did you can learn a lot about houseplants at the San Diego Botanic Garden’s summer exhibition, World of Houseplants, now in full swing through Monday, Sept.

The late Rachel “Bunny” Mellon was half of one of the nation’s most renowned philanthropic art-collecting couples. She and her husband, banking scion Paul Mellon, were major benefactors behind museums ...

Jamie Burghardt believes that botanical gardens are best viewed, evaluated and documented as living art museums. That belief comes with his turf as director of horticulture and education at the ...

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. [not numbered] (Sale info: For Competition). The Botanical Studies by H. Hancock are excellent. [P. 46.] AWARDS. To Herbert Hancock for Botanical Drawings, ...

The Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix has some new recruits serving as greeters: A dozen or so meerkats, rendered larger-than-life in blue, orange, yellow and fuchsia plastic, all standing at ...