If you wanted to create better blackberries, you could try to breed a variety without the seeds that get stuck in your teeth.

In the coastal forests of a tropical Japanese island near Okinawa grows an inconspicuous plant that is easy to mistake for a mushroom. It is a non-green parasite that feeds on the roots of other ...

A banana plant has fruited outdoors in a Poole garden, an understandably rare occurrence which is thanks to this summer’s soaring temperatures.

A clover lawn can take 60 to 90 days to fully establish from seed. If mixed with a regular lawn, it may take less time, and ...

When creating a thoughtful layout in your home garden, tackling a shady area can be an especially challenging hurdle. While many perennial flowering plants thrive in full sun, most of these struggle ...

Now the garden is awash with exotic, tropical plants including tree ferns, fatsias, bananas, colocasias, cordyline and ...

Garden centres, nurseries and wholesalers have conformed a decline in demand for conventional cottage garden plants and ...

There are more than 600 species of oaks found growing around the world, and every one of them produces acorns. Acorns are different from other tree nuts because of their interesting two-part shell.

Just look at these!” says Sophie Conran, crouching down inside a polytunnel to show me her Queen of the Nights. “Aren’t they ...

Scientists have made a surprising finding about how an asexually reproducing stick insect has evolved. Research led by Dr.

When we neglect a ground layer in our plantings, whether it’s beneath woody plants or herbaceous ones, the weeds find their way between and around those spaces. If the soil has been recently disturbed ...

For the past 80 years, since the lawn mower became more affordable to the average homeowner, America has had a devoted love affair with lawns. We have admired and cultivated ...