Starting your own indoor herb garden is one way to enjoy edible gardening, especially if you lack a yard or outside space for ...

The licorice-like scent of petunias is enough to turn off many an insect including aphids, hornworms and squash bugs. The ...

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. Sign up A few of the flowers that mimic the smell of carcasses take ...

Firstly, it's important to realise that aroma chemistry is complex, and the smell of any flower is never really the consequence of a single chemical compound. Flowers give off a complex mix of ...

Thanks to their sweet and fruity scents, purple flowers that smell good can provide a true feast for the senses whether you ...

Thousands have queued to see the "corpse flower" bloom for the first time in ... in its power to be as unpleasant as possible - but the smell is actually designed to lure carrion-eating insects ...

Crowds lined up at the California Academy of Sciences, a research institution and museum in San Francisco, last month to see – and smell – the blooming of an endangered tropical flower that ...

It’s a trick, and it’s a good one. Come for the flower ... Unfortunately, it smells like human semen to many people. It’s not only plants that have learned how to make pungent smells. The wonderfully ...

Night-blooming plants smell strongest at night. They use their strong scent to guide in pollinators when it is dark. Bees do not have a good sense of smell and in the UK they do not fly at night.