The former pro soccer player has returned home to London with a plan to rejuvenate the city’s neighborhoods—and empower its young people—with urban gardening.

The horticulturist travels the world in search of troubled species to propagate. His motivation? “Plants are the alchemists of our universe.” ...

Then check out searchable databases like the National Wildlife Federation’s Native Plant Finder to find out which native plants grow in your area. Don’t feel like you need to overhaul the ...

This story appears in the August 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Tropical plants aren’t abundant in the northern latitudes of Montreal, Canada. Nor are the planet’s most diverse ...