Plants

Auckland Botanical Gardens curator Bec Stanley on the chlorophyll-filled bio-mass that photosynthesises around us. Phytoremediation or 'using plants to clean the world'. Audio

Author and florist, Fionna Hill lives in an Auckland apartment, but still manages to have a thriving garden of edible plants. She grows them in pots on her balcony, everything from miners lettuce to… Audio

An app to make life easier for botanists is out today. Audio

Auckland Botanical Gardens curator Bec Stanley on the chlorophyll-filled bio-mass that photosynthesises around us... contemporary sustainable gardening practices. Audio

A new study suggests a way of predicting how invasive plant species might be when moved to a new country Audio

A botanist, planner, zoologist and entomologist collaborated in a survey of Dunedin gardens to find out how well native biodiversity fares in cities Audio

Sam Knight has written about the strange theft of one of the world's rarest flowers from Kew Gardens in London earlier this year. Audio

Alex Haslam is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland who's studying the link between office decor and workplace productivity. Audio

Two researchers at the University of Missouri have shown that plants may in fact be able to detect sound. Heidi Appel and Rex Cocroft recorded the sound of a cabbage butterfly caterpillar chewing a… Audio

Concerns that AgResearch will continue to lose vital scientific minds as it pushes ahead with a major relocation of staff to two large hubs, despite stiff opposition from scientists and farmers… Audio

Concerns that AgResearch will continue to lose vital scientific minds as it pushes ahead with a major relocation of staff to two large hubs, despite stiff opposition from scientists and farmers… Audio

Using the native pepper tree, the horopito, Ignatius Menzies of Victoria University and a team of international researchers have shown that insects prefer to eat green leaves rather than red ones. Audio

A passionate collector of carnivorous plants, Don Gray has 8000 plants in a large greenhouse on the outskirts of Auckland. He's collected the plants for almost forty years - despite saying he's not… Audio

Bunny and John Mortimer farmed for many years on the outskirts of Hamilton and, following years of gathering seeds in New Zealand and overseas and planting them, they gifted the arboretum they… Audio

How plants talk to bees using electricity. Bright colours, nectar, and also electrical charges play a part in pollination. With Dr Heather Whitney of the University of Bristol. Audio

Plants respond to light and chemicals, and can even make sounds. But are they able to communicate? Dr Monica Gagliano of the University of Western Australia is investigating bioacoustics in plants. Audio

A chemist and a botanist investigate whether the redness of horopito leaves is related to their hotness Audio