Here are just a few of the legends surrounding our most popular Christmas plants. This spiny shrub with scarlet red berries ...

This plant not only produces colorful leaves in the fall and winter, but also can be loaded with bright red berries ... to work with due to their sharp thorns, they are nonetheless beautiful ...

The Christmas connection has long been associated with the mythical story of Pepita, a little girl in the 17th century who ...

• Dried grasses such as Giant moor grass (Molina caerulea) add colour, shape and interest. If you don’t have access to ...

The dark myths and folklore behind your favourite Christmas plants - Holly was believed to have obstructed witches ...

December 13 will be the peak of one of the year’s brightest and most active meteor showers, the Geminids. The Geminid meteor ...

A biosecurity watchdog says an infestation of one of the world’s most invasive weeds at Onerahi could spread to an ...

The peak of Mount Etna is around 3,300 metres above sea level; as our group wound our way up black volcanic rocky roads, trees gave way to prickly shrubs ... with red berry and cherry flavours ...

An ancient relic that many Christians revere as Jesus Christ’s “Crown of Thorns” is returning to Notre Dame, nearly five ...

For those who want to offer food to the earliest pollinators and migrating birds, there's a tree that can provide you beauty ...