Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Many people have a gleeful fascination with carnivorous plants, be that a Venus flytrap, pitcher plant, monkey cup or sundew. There’s something mysterious ...

Just in time for Halloween, local gardening startup Fern (www.fernclub.com) has partnered with Roots SF, a plant boutique in the Mission, to offer a carnivorous terrarium by mail. The Venus Flytrap ...

An adventurous — and bloodthirsty — plant lover can take on a new challenge Tuesday at a terrarium building class at Dee-sign Landscaping & Garden Shop. A Venus flytrap traps and eats insects. It’s ...

Peter D'Amato was probably a fairly normal New Jersey kid until, as he recalled, "I ordered some Venus flytraps from an ad in Famous Monsters magazine." "I had convinced my mother we could afford ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Terrariums are a fun way to let your imagination run wild while you garden. “You can create a ...

About 200 million years ago, certain plants with strange leaves showed up on what became the eastern half of North America. Because they grew in marshy, infertile soil, they had to devise other ways ...

Carnivorous plants aren’t a product of nightmares so much as they are a product of evolution. When plants growing in bogs and other wetlands couldn’t find enough nutrients in the soil around them, ...

Create a garden under glass to enjoy or give as a gift to new, experienced and even reluctant gardeners. This self-contained system makes it easy to be a successful gardener with minimal care.