A Digital Botanic Garden

This is the wild form of melon Cucumis melo known as Queen Anne's pocket melon. It's about the size of a snooker ball and grows a...

Unusual fruits, strawberries - in more ways than one. In many edible fruits the edible part is formed from the succulent ovary wall that e...

If I could only grow one cactus this would probably be the one. It was labelled Notocactus schlosseri when I bought it but now it’s been ...

The vivid colours and satisfying geometry of florists’ auriculas have fascinated gardeners for almost four and a half centuries and over th...

The iconic plant of the Uraguayan pampas, whose three metre-tall plumes of seeds are a wonderful sight on a bright autumn day in any garde...

This spectacular lily is a native of Africa, where it is the national flower of Zimbabwe, and also of India where it is the state flower o...