Valentine’s Day this Monday will open the floodgates for the import of foreign flowers into Australia. While many romantics may prefer to buy locally grown bouquets, most retailers won’t be revealing ...

The Australian government says it plans to stop treating imported flowers with glyphosate, but local growers are not happy ...

Museums and herbariums often share samples of various plant species, allowing experts around the world to study rare specimens. But a recent collaborative effort between the National Museum of Natural ...

Florists and growers are calling for country-of-origin logos to be placed on bunches of flowers this Valentine's Day to support growers battling a glut of cheap imports and years of drought and ...

That’s the call from the industry’s peak body, Flower Industry Australia, which claims the flower industry deals with “significant biosecurity risks” from imported blooms every year. It comes after a ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — A rare bloom with a pungent odor like decaying flesh has opened in the Australian capital in the nation’s third such extraordinary flowering in as many months. The corpse flower ...

With half of Australia's flowers imported from overseas, one family-run farm has defied the odds to bloom where others have wilted in the face of fierce competition. With the peak body Flower Industry ...

Australia is a bird lover’s delight. Even those of us who haven’t taken up birding as an obsession can’t help but be delighted by the wealth of brightly colored, charismatic species. One large and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. View of Eremaea, from The Australian Native Garden. Television presenter, radio broadcaster and author Angus Stewart leaves no mode of ...

Flowers are on display as part of an annual flower festival in Canberra, Australia, Sept. 12, 2020. The festival, namely Floriade, runs from Sept. 12 to Oct. 11 in Canberra. In response to the ...