The only thing that really matters in Washington right now is the US Botanic Garden corpse flower, which is currently releasing a noxious odor of rotting flesh into the humid air of the front ...

Walking through a nursery to find new plants for a garden is one way to begin to develop this skill, as is drawing or painting a still life from objects in your environment. These activities will help ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Ever since I saw the Metropolitan Museum’s stunning show of Ellsworth Kelly’s botanical drawings, I have been ogling ...

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 ...