Tillandsias, or "air plants" as they're known, are increasing in popularity because they're easy to care for and drought-tolerant. Paul T. Isley knows a lot about tillandsias, or "air plants" as ...

It wasn’t as if Paul Isley started out interested in air plants. After all, he was an Economics major at UCLA when he was introduced to tillandsias by a herpetologist friend. Because Isley loves ...

Not long ago, I wrote about planting bromeliads in the garden. In response, I received an email from Jerry Robinson, one of the proprietors of Rainforest Flora (rain-forest-flora.com), whose retail ...

Award-winning garden designer Zoe Claymore said it was exciting to know the garden would help to safeguard these rainforests for the future. "Seeing the British Rainforest Garden find a permanent home ...

Many who have never experienced being in the Amazon Rainforest, have the idea that it is a very inhospitable place, with dangers lurking around every bend in the river or trail and insects trying to ...

Salt compounds released by fungi and plants in the Amazon rainforest have an important role in the formation of rain clouds, reports research published in the journal Science. Scientists in recent ...

A team of scientists has discovered that leaves of flowering plants in the world's first rainforests had more veins per unit area than leaves ever had before. They suggest that this increased the ...

Rainforest plants have long been recognized for their potential to provide healing compounds. Indigenous peoples of the rainforest have used medicinal plants for treating a wide variety of health ...

A team of scientists, including several from the Smithsonian Institution, discovered that leaves of flowering plants in the world’s first rainforests had more veins per unit area than leaves ever had ...