In the late 1830s, the Welsh botanist John Dillwyn Llewelyn began making photographs of orchids he’d grown at his home near Swansea. Llewelyn’s pictures are thought to be among the first to use the ...

Andover, Minn. Dahlia grower Arnie Sachs braces a ladder while former KARE 11 news anchor and reporter Diana Pierce photographs one of his flowers. In her newsletter "Blooming," Pierce highlights the ...

For William Ewing, co-curator of “Flora Imaginaria: The Flower in Contemporary Photography,” which recently opened at the Society of the Four Arts, flowers are photography’s unappreciated subject.

If we were asked to define beauty, these photos would definitely be a good example of it as they feature the graceful movements of a beautiful swinging ballet dancer compared to the different angles ...

Flower photography is not a widely followed genre, but it is something many photographers grow to appreciate. While it may seem like floral photography is all about point and shoot, it is quite a ...

A new photo of a long-forgotten flower showed up online. Identifying it means getting into the tricky question of how a species is defined. A population of lemon beebalm (Monarda citriodora) flowering ...

Here’s a look at five of the smelliest flowers in the world and why they smell the way they do.