A rare and foul-smelling moment in the plant kingdom is about to unfold at the Chicago Botanic Garden. The corpse flower named "Spike" is on the verge of blooming and if you've smelled one, you might ...

(CBS)--The wait is over for Spike, the corpse flower at the Chicago Botanic Garden, but it's not the smelly end fans had hoped for, reports WBBM's Bob Roberts. Spike's outer sheath or spathe was ...

After the blooms on your moth orchid (Phalaenopsis) have shriveled and fallen off the plant, you're left with a long, bare green stem (technically called a spike). Should you cut it off or leave it be ...

Children petted and caressed it and held their noses in mock disgust. Families took smiling selfies with it. Women knelt over, pressed their noses to the rubbery flesh, and sniffed its leaves. The ...

GLENCOE, Ill. (WLS) -- Alice, one of the Chicago Botanic Garden's rare corpse flowers, is now producing fruit. The flower, known as a titan arum, bloomed in September - weeks after another flower, ...

An Amorphophallus titanum or titan arum, commonly known as the corpse flower, has bloomed at the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra for the first time. The 15-year-old plant started ...

Orchids are notoriously difficult to care for - but one easy trick could guarantee new flowers. Many of us buy orchids when they already have flowers, which can make it hard to know what to do with ...

There are plenty of beautiful types of delphiniums to add to your planting list if you're a lover of cottage-garden schemes. And in fact, with their architectural structure and bold color, they can ...