A Digital Botanic Garden

Hellebores are popular garden plants because they flower so early in the year. The so-called Lenten rose ( Helleborus orientalis and its ma...

Legend has it that the secret of 'forcing' rhubarb - keeping it in the dark to produce rapidly elongating succulent leaf stalks and ...

This delightful variation on the common daisy, known as the Childling Daisy or Hen-and-Chicks Daisy, photographed in Durham University Botan...

I’m not much of a fan of billiard table-perfect lawns. Striving to maintain monotonous grass in a perpetual state of arrested development se...

I first encountered this sensational plant at the Chelsea Flower Show in 1973, when I was a student, and didn't see it again until I vi...

There seems to be quite a lot of confusion about the name of this fragrant lily. You'll sometimes seem it listed as Ismene x festalis ,...

It's understandable that people admire Sarracenia plants for their funnel-shaped pitfall traps that catch and drown insects but in ma...