And once children understand the importance of native plants to an environment, tending to them empowers kids to protect habitats ... databases like the National Wildlife Federation’s Native ...

(This collection from National Geographic Education explains what ... they can decorate fun measuring cups for each type of plant. • Put kids in charge of collecting dinner scraps for composting ...

Only six years old at the time, I was at first put off by these garish plants. Such strange and vibrant flowers seemed out of place among the respectable beans, peppers, spinach, and other ...

This story appears in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The inside workings of plants are the unexplored frontier of botany. What happens when a nematode or fungus attacks a crop?

This story appears in the March 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... It has been killed by a plant. The swampy pine savanna within a 90-mile radius of Wilmington, North Carolina ...