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 ...

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 ...

Some Australian-grown flowers will be bunched together by new green and gold rubber bands to help buyers identify local blooms. Australian flower growers hope new labelling will encourage people to ...

Martin Burd was involved in the study mentioned in the article. In Australia, honeyeaters are far and away the most abundant and important nectar-feeding birds, so also the most important avian ...

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 ...

Try growing the Australian fan flower. Like most Aussies, this annual flower is tough, surviving extreme heat and drought while keeping its cool. A lovely trailer, with thick green leaves and blue fan ...

An Australian flower company has created an "indestructible" rose just like the one from Disney's "Beauty and the Beast." You don't have to water it. It doesn't need sun. And it's a real, natural ...

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 ...