In the late 1830s, the Welsh botanist John Dillwyn Llewelyn began making photographs of orchids he’d grown at his home near Swansea. Llewelyn’s pictures are thought to be among the first to use the ...

For William Ewing, co-curator of “Flora Imaginaria: The Flower in Contemporary Photography,” which recently opened at the Society of the Four Arts, flowers are photography’s unappreciated subject.

Andover, Minn. Dahlia grower Arnie Sachs braces a ladder while former KARE 11 news anchor and reporter Diana Pierce photographs one of his flowers. In her newsletter "Blooming," Pierce highlights the ...

If we were asked to define beauty, these photos would definitely be a good example of it as they feature the graceful movements of a beautiful swinging ballet dancer compared to the different angles ...

A new photo of a long-forgotten flower showed up online. Identifying it means getting into the tricky question of how a species is defined. A population of lemon beebalm (Monarda citriodora) flowering ...

Rachel Ruysch, "Posy of Flowers with a Beetle on a Stone Ledge" (1741), oil on canvas; Kunstmuseum Basel (courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) BOSTON — Dainty, fussy, and prim: These are the common ...