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• New Gardening Rules for the New Year

  31-12-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Perhaps the best way to confront the swiftly changing landscape is to swallow hard, and then move forward with a fresh approach.
  
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• Who’s the Parasite Now? This Newly Discovered ‘Fairy Lantern’ Flower.

  25-12-2025 06:04 via nytimes.com
  Found in a forest outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the plant steals nutrients from subterranean fungi.
  
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• Ruth Kiew Dies at 79; Botanist Made Discoveries in Remote Forests

  16-12-2025 20:11 via nytimes.com
  Trekking across Malaysia, her adopted country, she found more than 150 unrecorded plant species. “She’s one of the greatest botanists who ever lived,” a colleague said.
  
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• Flowers of Horsehair, a Chilean Specialty, Travel to Qatar

  14-12-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Village artisans create the accents for 50 hats sent to the emirate’s first exhibition polo matches.
  
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• A Hot Plant’s Irresistible Signal Makes Beetles Pollinate It

  11-12-2025 22:43 via nytimes.com
  Ancient plants called cycads say “come hither” in infrared.
  
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• A Hot Plant’s Mysterious Signal Makes Beetles Pollinate It

  11-12-2025 20:00 via nytimes.com
  Ancient plants called cycads say “come hither” in infrared.
  
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• Tiny Love Stories: ‘He Invited Me In for a Glass of Wine’

  11-12-2025 19:29 via nytimes.com
  Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
  
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• Field Guides Are Getting Niche

  06-12-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  What birders well know, fans of “composite organisms” and other creatures can now learn: how to identify obscure species in the wild.
  
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• How to Style a Holiday Table Your Guests Will Never Forget

  26-11-2025 05:31 via nytimes.com
  A textile designer, a chef and an artist share their tablescapes and their tips.
  
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• How to Keep Your Houseplants Anything but Basic

  19-11-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Rob Moffitt, founder of a Los Angeles-based botanical studio, exposes roots and uses uniquely shaped pots. You can, too.
  
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• Las flores que siempre están en temporada

  07-11-2025 09:01 via nytimes.com
  Desde hace más de 30 años, una tienda de Milán vende flores y plantas hechas a mano con láminas de cobre y alambre sorprendentemente parecidas a las reales.
  
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• 36 Hours Kauai, Hawaii: Things to Do and See

  06-11-2025 11:03 via nytimes.com
  With its pristine jungles and small towns, this Hawaiian island retains the unmanicured charm of Old Polynesia with few modern intrusions.
  
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• Flowers That Are Never Out of Season

  04-11-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  How one decades-old Milan shop makes remarkably realistic blossoms out of copper.
  
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• Chasing Waterfalls on Portugal’s Island of Madeira

  04-11-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The island, a Portuguese territory, is only 35 miles long, but its mountains are laced with scenic trails, tumbling cascades and inviting villages.
  
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• The Lovely Loneliness of Sunday Afternoon in Autumn

  03-11-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  The fading of hummingbirds, butterflies and leaves brings both melancholy and exquisite beauty.
  
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• 10-Minute Challenge: A Vase of Flowers

  03-11-2025 02:22 via nytimes.com
  We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.
  
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• Bette Midler on 30 Years of Planting Gardens, and Spooky Season

  27-10-2025 08:56 via nytimes.com
  She’s been planting greenery in the city for 30 years through her charity — and still loves celebrating spooky season.
  
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• Helping to Save the Bees With Plants in Kansas

  23-10-2025 20:38 via nytimes.com
  About 97 percent of the land in the state is privately owned. Meet the people helping to make it friendlier for native bugs.
  
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• Art and Data Team Up Against Climate Change

  20-10-2025 19:17 via nytimes.com
  Some artists offer a glimpse of a future that is already occurring in some climates. Others imagine a world past the point of survival.
  
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• New York City Is Full of Green Space. You Just Have to Find It.

  14-10-2025 20:11 via nytimes.com
  The city’s millions of residents are crammed together, competing for space to live, play, work and rest.
  
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• She Studied How Foresting Affects Pollinators

  09-10-2025 01:02 via nytimes.com
  Kim Ballare was a research ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service until her federal grant “got snatched away.”
  
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• Why Leaving the Leaves Is Better for Your Yard — and the Planet

  08-10-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Keeping leaves in your yard can bolster the number and variety of species around — and the perks go beyond just the fall season.
  
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• Exploring the Burren, Ireland’s Vast Rocky Region

  06-10-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Though it looks forbidding, the Burren, where you can walk for hours among the rocks and valleys with only your thoughts for company, can be fertile ground for creativity.
  
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• Plan it Wild, a NY Landscaping Firm, is Challenging Gardeners to Diversify Their Lawns

  17-09-2025 19:58 via nytimes.com
  A landscaping firm in New York built an educational program to help gardeners make their landscapes more biodiverse.
  
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• How to Count Butterflies

  15-09-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  To welcome butterflies and help them thrive, start by planting the native plants their caterpillars need.
  
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• Immigration Authorities Arrest Hundreds in Georgia Raid

  05-09-2025 23:37 via nytimes.com
  Nearly 500 people, most of whom are South Korean citizens, were arrested at a construction site for a Hyundai electric vehicle battery plant in Ellabell, Ga., on Thursday.
  
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• The Teachers Lurking in Your Garden: Hungry Rabbits and Ancient Insects

  03-09-2025 21:29 via nytimes.com
  Tending to a garden provides a lifelong education in science and wonder, if you get in the dirt and look closely.
  
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• The Era of the American Lawn Is Over

  30-08-2025 22:17 via nytimes.com
  Yards should be wilder, freer and more alive.
  
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• Es una luz de noche. Es una planta. Es una suculenta que brilla

  28-08-2025 09:00 via nytimes.com
  En una prueba de concepto, los investigadores demostraron que con bioingeniería podían inyectar un par de horas de luz en una planta común.
  
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• It’s a Night Light. It’s a Plant. It’s a Glowing Succulent.

  27-08-2025 17:00 via nytimes.com
  In a proof of concept, researchers demonstrated that they could bioengineer a couple of hours of light into a common plant.
  
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• How to Create a Garden That’s Good for Your Health

  26-08-2025 22:01 via nytimes.com
  Horticulturalists and herbalists share tips for nurturing plants with health benefits.
  
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• A Jungle Grows in the Backyard

  19-08-2025 04:13 via nytimes.com
  In a climate-twisted summer, a garden runs riot.
  
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• Tiny Love Stories: ‘Let Joy Back In’

  06-08-2025 20:26 via nytimes.com
  Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
  
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• ¿De dónde vienen las papas? Probablemente de un tomate

  01-08-2025 06:01 via nytimes.com
  Un antiguo híbrido de tomates y plantas parecidas a la papa puede haber dado origen a este famoso alimento como lo conocemos hoy, según sugiere un nuevo estudio.
  
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• What’s a Potato? A Nine-Million-Year-Old Tomato

  31-07-2025 17:09 via nytimes.com
  An ancient hybrid of tomatoes and potato-like plants may have given rise to the modern spud, a new study suggests.
  
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• In Thrall to the Scented Geranium

  30-07-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Heirloom Pelargoniums, some with hundreds of years of horticultural history, are among 2,000 kinds of plants in an herb collection in rural New Jersey.
  
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• Citizen Scientists Are Accelerating Ecology Research With iNaturalist

  28-07-2025 15:00 via nytimes.com
  Thousands of scientific papers have used data collected by users of the platform iNaturalist, according to new research.
  
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• Readers Sent Us Hundreds of Local Climate Solutions

  24-07-2025 23:08 via nytimes.com
  As part of our 50 States, 50 Fixes series, more than 2,400 Times readers wrote in to tell us about climate action in their communities.
  
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• New Global Atlas Highlights Surprising Hot Spots of Fungal Biodiversity

  23-07-2025 21:25 via nytimes.com
  A new global atlas of underground fungi suggests that some surprising biodiversity hot spots lie hidden beneath our feet.
  
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• How Calvert Crary, of FlowerSchool New York, Spends His Day With Roses

  19-07-2025 09:00 via nytimes.com
  Calvert Crary, the executive director of FlowerSchool New York, teaches students how to haggle, spruces up his apartment lobby and ends his day on the roof.
  
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• London’s Kew Gardens Will Renovate Iconic Glasshouses

  16-07-2025 22:10 via nytimes.com
  The Palm House and the Waterlily House, two hulking greenhouses built in the Victorian Era, will close in 2027 for four years of major renovations.
  
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• Plan a Garden, Then Make It ‘Maximalist’

  16-07-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Find out what it would look like to fully celebrate the wildly personal beauty of your garden “dialed to the max.”
  
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• This Jungle Plant Is a Good Landlord to Its Tenant Ants

  10-07-2025 20:00 via nytimes.com
  While plants often have mutually beneficial relationships with insects, a tuber in Fiji grows separate compartments for multiple ant species.
  
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• Three Small Gardening Projects Anyone Can Do

  04-07-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Whether indoors or outdoors, you can add a little life to your windowsill, your balcony or your yard in just a few steps.
  
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• In Alabama, a Social Media Influencer Really Gets Wild

  02-07-2025 21:35 via nytimes.com
  Kyle Lybarger built a loyal following online by talking about native plants and why biodiversity matters.
  
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• Finding Beauty in Fake Flowers

  02-07-2025 18:27 via nytimes.com
  They express something deep and common, sad and sweet: our inability to fully face losing what we love.
  
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• Dashcam Captures Fireball Over South Carolina

  26-06-2025 21:09 via nytimes.com
  Authorities were investigating what exactly the glowing object was. It was not clear if it was a meteorite, space debris, or something else.
  
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• I Celebrate Pride by Reveling in the Queerness of Nature

  24-06-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  I celebrate Pride month by going for a walk because nature is exuberantly queer.
  
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• How to Avoid Even the Unintended Results of Your Ecological Mistakes

  19-06-2025 16:07 via nytimes.com
  Efforts to create plantings that welcome wildlife — birds, snakes, frogs, insects — can backfire. You can do better. Start by turning off the outdoor lights.
  
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• First Fossil Proof Found That Long-Necked Dinosaurs Were Vegetarians

  09-06-2025 17:00 via nytimes.com
  “It’s the smoking gun, or the steaming guts,” said a paleontologist from a team that also found that the sauropods didn’t chew their food.
  
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