Top 50 Botany Websites & Blogs For Botanists And Plant Scientists

1. Annals of Botany Blog - Botany and Plant Science Research

UK About Blog AoB Blog keeps you up-to-date with the latest research in our journals, and interesting plant science news and views from around the world.
Frequency about 8 posts per week.
Website aobblog.com/
Facebook fans 20,588. Twitter followers 3,536.

2. My Chicago Botanic Garden

Glencoe, Illinois About Blog The Chicago Botanic Garden cultivates the power of plants to sustain and enrich life. The Chicago Botanic Garden is a 385-acre living plant museum situated on nine islands featuring 26 display gardens and surrounded by four natural areas.
Frequency about 1 post per week.
Website my.chicagobotanic.org/
Facebook fans 115,740. Twitter followers 20,572.

3. In Defense of Plants

About Blog From the smallest duckweed to the tallest redwood, the botanical world is full of amazing evolutionary stories. Matt is obsessed with the botanical world. Plants are everything on this planet. They have this amazing ability to use our nearest star to break apart water and CO2 gas in order to grow and reproduce.
Frequency about 2 posts per week.
Website indefenseofplants.com/
Facebook fans 25,056. Twitter followers 800.

4. Plant Delights Nursery - Botanic Garden Blog

Raleigh, NC About Blog Plant Delights Nursery is an online plant nursery specializing in unique, exotic and American native perennial plants. It maintains world-class plant collections.
Frequency about 2 posts per week.
Website blog.plantdelights.com/ ..
Facebook fans 16,477. Twitter followers 621.

5. Reddit - Botany

About Blog Botany feed by Reddit. A place to discuss past, present, and future botanical research.
Frequency about 24 posts per week.
Website reddit.com/r/botany
Facebook fans 1,075,936. Twitter followers 462,785.

6. Google News - Botany

Mountain View, CA About Blog Comprehensive up-to-date coverage for botany, aggregated from news sources all over the world by Google News.
Frequency about 14 posts per week.
Website news.google.com/news/section..
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers 212,780.

7. Culham Research Group

About Blog This blog brings together the research and teaching activities of the research group of Alastair Culham at the University of Reading. Dr Alastair Culham is a Associate Professor of Botany at the Reading University Herbarium (RNG)
Frequency about 3 posts per month.
Website blogs.reading.ac.uk/crg/ ..
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers n/a.

8. The Phytophactor

Chicago, Illinois, United States About Blog A plant pundit comments on plants, the foibles and fun of academic life, and other things of interest.
Frequency about 3 posts per week.
Website phytophactor.fieldofscience...
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers n/a.

9. California Native Plant Society

About Blog The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of California native plants and their natural habitats, and to increasing the understanding, appreciation, and horticultural use of native plants.
Frequency about 3 posts per month.
Website grownatives.cnps.org/
Facebook fans 16,020. Twitter followers n/a.

10. Wave Hill Blog

Bronx, NY About Blog A serene oasis overlooking the Hudson River, Wave Hill is a public garden and cultural center, often called one of the greatest living works of art.
Frequency about 1 post per week.
Website blog.wavehill.org/
Facebook fans 17,213. Twitter followers 4,486.

11. Botanical Rambles

About Blog Sarah Gage curates the Botanical Rambles blog for the Washington Native Plant Society. She is a writer and editor, a broad-spectrum botanist, a cranky gardener, and an accidental bureaucrat. Her writing has appeared in the Seattle Times, The Seattle Weekly, Willow Springs, and Douglasia, as well as in numerous scientific papers and government reports.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website wnps.org/blog
Facebook fans 1,420. Twitter followers 32.

12. Danger garden

Portland, Oregon About Blog Gardening with spiky desert plants in the Pacific Northwest, and other (almost daily) plant related stories and observations.
Frequency about 5 posts per week.
Website thedangergarden.com/
Facebook fans 1,018. Twitter followers 316.

13. Plants are the Strangest People

About Blog PATSP is a long-winded, intermittently humorous blog which is mostly about houseplants, particularly Anthuriums.
Frequency about 2 posts per week.
Since Oct 2007
Website plantsarethestrangestpeople...
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers n/a.

14. CLM Internship Program Blog

About Blog CLM Internship Program Blog is the adventures of the clm interns.
Frequency about 3 posts per week.
Website clminternship.org/blog/
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers n/a.

15. National Botanic Garden of Wales

Carmarthen, Wales, UK About Blog A very special place in Carmarthenshire boasting the largest single-span glasshouse on the planet.
Frequency about 1 post per week.
Website botanicgarden.wales/blog/ ..
Facebook fans 12,083. Twitter followers 7,887.

16. Toronto Gardens

Toronto About Blog Toronto Gardens are the gardens that inspire, and shows how gardeners should take care of their gardens. Toronto Gardens has won a number of awards over the years.
Frequency about 2 posts per week.
Website torontogardens.com/
Facebook fans 1,187. Twitter followers 5,531.

17. Awkward Botany

Boise, Idaho About Blog This blog will document Daniel's plant obsession.This blog is for equally plant obsessed, as well as for the plant interested and the plant curious people. Daniel is a citizen botany for the phytocurious.
Frequency about 4 posts per month.
Website awkwardbotany.com
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers 539.

18. Winterbourne House and Garden

Birmingham, UK About Blog Restored to its Edwardian Arts and Craft splendour, Winterbourne House is a unique heritage attraction – set within seven acres of beautiful botanic gardens. Winterbourne is a hidden gem – home to beautiful antiques and over 6,000 plant species from around the world.
Frequency about 2 posts per month.
Website winterbourne.org.uk/blog/ ..
Facebook fans 2,254. Twitter followers 3,077.

19. Garden of Aaron

About Blog A gardener valiantly tries to raise vegetables, flowers and shrubbery on Tennessee clay soil.
Frequency about 2 posts per month.
Website gardenofaaron.com/
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers 96.

20. A Wandering Botanist

Colorado About Blog Enriching life with tales of plants, travel and history. Here you can gain a deeper enjoyment of the natural world and discover information about plants that will delight and enchant you.
Frequency about 1 post per week.
Website khkeeler.blogspot.com
Facebook fans 208. Twitter followers n/a.

21. The Botanist in the Kitchen

About Blog A person can learn a lot about plants through the everyday acts of slicing and eating them. This space is devoted to exploring food plants in all their beautiful detail as plants – as living organisms with their own evolutionary history and ecological interactions.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website botanistinthekitchen.blog
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers 358.

22. The New York Botanical Garden

Bronx, NY About Blog The New York Botanical Garden is a museum of plants, an educational institution, and a scientific research organization. The NYBG Tumblr is a collection of links from both inside and outside the Garden.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website nybg.tumblr.com/
Facebook fans 121,033. Twitter followers 39,629.

23. Botanical garden photography - Blog

About Blog Ian Watt is a UK Based photographer and horticulturist specialising in garden photography, nature photography and landscapes.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website botanicalgardenphotography.c..
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers n/a.

24. Botany Professor

Tampa, Florida, United States About Blog Essays, botanical travelogues, and other resources provided for students, instructors and anyone else seeking a deeper understanding of the nature of plants.
Frequency about 3 posts per month.
Website botanyprofessor.blogspot.com
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers n/a.

25. Talking Plants

Australia, Victoria, Melbourne About Blog A blog about plants and gardens (gardening, botany, algae and fungi).
Frequency about 1 post per week.
Website talkingplants.blogspot.com
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers 2,692.

26. Garden Bloggers Fling

About Blog Garden Bloggers Fling is an annual social and garden-touring event for garden bloggers. Held in a different city each year since its inception in 2008, the Fling has attracted garden bloggers from all over the U.S., Canada, and Europe. The 3- to 4-day event is organized and hosted by volunteer garden bloggers from the host city.
Frequency about 2 posts per week.
Website gardenbloggersfling.blogspot..
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers n/a.

27. A garden's chronicle

Nord, France About Blog François Sockhom Mey has been passionately interested in carnivorous plants. He studied their systematics and ecology, with a particular focus on the Indochinese Nepenthaceae.
Frequency about 5 posts per week.
Website carnivorousockhom.blogspot.com
Facebook fans 917. Twitter followers n/a.

28. New York Flora Association Blog

About Blog The New York Flora Association encourage the production of botanical publications that are educational to the public and beneficial to the scientific community. They provide an umbrella organization for field and herbarium botanists that can represent their points of view. They erve as an information exchange for botanically related organizations and botanists active in New York State.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website nyfablog.org
Facebook fans 1,068. Twitter followers 425.

29. Enchanted Gardens

About Blog Enchanted Gardens is a landscape design firm that creates unique and personal gardens and botanical gardens for clients in Metrowest Boston and Cape Cod.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website enchantedgardensdesign.com/b..
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers n/a.

30. Botanical Artists Association of Southern Africa

About Blog The Botanical Artists Association of Southern Africa (BAASA) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting public awareness of botanical art in southern Africa. BAASA is open to all botanical artists, whether scientific illustrators or realistic flower painters, as well as collectors and those interested in furthering the tradition of botanical art.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website botanicalartistsassociations..
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers n/a.

31. BSBI News & Views

About Blog
Frequency about 2 posts per week.
Website bsbipublicity.blogspot.com
Facebook fans 3,821. Twitter followers 12,252.

32. Arnold Arboretum - Plant Profiles

Jamaica Plain, MA About Blog The Arnold Arboretum occupies 281 acres of land in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston. It is administered as an allied institution within the central administration of Harvard University. Collections of historical interest include the plants introduced from eastern Asia. In addition to its living collections the Arboretum holds a herbarium collection in excess of 1.3 million specimens.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website arboretum.harvard.edu/catego..
Facebook fans 24,448. Twitter followers 3,963.

33. UBC Botanical Garden

Vancouver, BC, Canada About Blog UBC Botanical Garden has excellence in plant research, education and conservation. UBC Botanical Garden has broadened to include research, conservation, teaching and public display of temperate plants from around the world, particularly Asian, alpine and native plants.
Frequency about 2 posts per month.
Website botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/news-..
Facebook fans 6,789. Twitter followers 10,646.

34. Toronto Botanical Garden - Blog

Toronto, Canada About Blog Toronto Botanical Garden offers an array of 17 gardens in mid-Toronto designed to educate & inspire with indoor & outdoor learning experiences for all ages.
Frequency about 2 posts per week.
Website torontobotanicalgarden.ca/ca..
Facebook fans 6,592. Twitter followers 3,788.

35. The Botanical Hiker

New York, United States About Blog A resource for the wild plant enthusiast, the hiker, the urban or trailside forager, those who wander and wonder.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website thebotanicalhiker.blogspot.com
Facebook fans 402. Twitter followers n/a.

36. Botany Newbie

About Blog This blog is about botany and here you can learn all about different types of plants as well as their medicinal uses!
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website plants-and-care.tumblr.com/ ..
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers n/a.

37. Regnum Plantæ

About Blog 26 year old, natural world and plant enthusiast Italian living in Scotland. He posts mostly about his botanical adventures in the wilderness, the plants he see and what he grow and experiment on.
Frequency about 4 posts per week.
Website regnum-plantae.tumblr.com/ ..
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers n/a.

38. Entomology and Botany

About Blog The blog of a biology major. Mostly centered around flowering plants and insects.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website bees-and-clover.tumblr.com/
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers n/a.

39. Pnw Botany

About Blog Native flora found in the great Pacific Northwest! This blog is run by Paige, a plant biology undergrad at the University of Washington.
Frequency about 1 post per week.
Website pnwbotany.tumblr.com/
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers n/a.

40. Fudbg

About Blog The Friends of the University of Dundee Botanic Garden is a charity whose aim is to support and promote the development of the Garden.
Frequency about 2 posts per month.
Website fudbg.blogspot.com
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers n/a.

41. I Need A Cup of Tea

United States About Blog Let's improve the world with plants. New plant exploration worldwide and based Colorado, USA. Native, Dryland, Rock and Crevice Gardens.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website kentonjseth.blogspot.com
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers n/a.

42. L.A. County Arboretum & Botanic Garden Plant Info

About Blog I'm Frank McDonough, Botanical Information Consultant here at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden. His job is to answer your questions about plants and just about everything related to them.
Frequency about 2 posts per month.
Website arboretumplantinfo.blogspot.com
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers n/a.

43. California Botany Blog

About Blog California Botany Blog is all about plants, botany etc.
Frequency about 2 posts per week.
Website californiabotany.blogspot.com
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers n/a.

44. Daily plant facts

About Blog Blog dedicated to posting interesting plants, and facts about botany and science, daily!
Frequency about 7 posts per week.
Website dailyplantfacts.tumblr.com
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers n/a.

45. Botany Digest

About Blog This blog is dedicated to the degree students of Botany.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website tagbotany2016.blogspot.com
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers n/a.

46. The Planthunter - Botanica

Sydney, Australia About Blog Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. The Planthunter is an online magazine with a focus on exploring the innumerable and endlessly curious connections between people and plants.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website theplanthunter.com.au/catego..
Facebook fans 49,164. Twitter followers 1,831.

47. Botany Blog

About Blog Blog about the Plants of the Northeastern U.S.
Frequency about 2 posts per month.
Website botany.thismia.com
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers n/a.

48. The Pitcher Plant Project

Portland, OR About Blog The Pitcher Plant Project is Sarracenia curious childhood fascination of carnivorous plants that has grown to be an intense journey of wonder, creativity and growth. He is constantly learning and is being amazed by these fantastic plants.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website thepitcherplantproject.com/b..
Facebook fans 1,273. Twitter followers 891.

49. Modern Botany

Ireland About Blog Situated on the Irish Wild Atlantic Way, Modern Botany inspired by the principles of botanical science utilises the best natural ingredients sourced from Ireland and all over the World. This multi-tasking product is a healthcare staple.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website modernbotany.com/news/
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers 399.

50. Mudflower

About Blog Mudflower was a 10 year old Mudbrick home set on a dozen Acres in Central West NSW. We have since moved into town, and then moved again. We no longer produce our own meat but continue to grow many perennial vegetables, herbs and heirloom vegetables.
Frequency about 1 post per week.
Since Jan 2011
Website living-mudflower.blogspot.com
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers n/a.

51. Happy Botanist

Tamil Nadu, India About Blog Explore the world of plants with me! Get to know about the plants and the wonderful mechanisms that plants carry out to live in this world. Stay with me and Stay curious!!
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Since Oct 2016
Website happybotanist.com
Facebook fans 77. Twitter followers 7.

52. Tropical Botany

About Blog This blog about the documenting and conservation of biodiversity.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website tropicalbotany.wordpress.com/
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers 1,027.

53. Globetrotting Gardener

About Blog Globetrotting Gardener is a blog about beautiful gardens around the world.
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website globetrottinggardener.com/ ..
Facebook fans 3,912. Twitter followers 214.

54. S. J. Thomas' Botany Blog

Aberystwyth, Dyfed, United Kingdom About Blog Mostly UK field botany including identification, taxonomy and recording. Also occasional updates on my PhD research into plants of the protected environment (glasshouses, etc).
Frequency about 1 post per month.
Website sjtbotany.blogspot.com
Facebook fans n/a. Twitter followers n/a.

55. Longwood Graduate Program Blog

About Blog The Longwood Graduate Program is a two-year graduate program, supported collaboratively by the University of Delaware and Longwood Gardens. This blog is an effort to showcase, through words and images, the myriad opportunities for students within the Program.
Frequency about 2 posts per month.
Website agdev.anr.udel.edu/longwoodg..
Facebook fans 583. Twitter followers n/a.