A Digital Botanic Garden

A packet of seeds is still one of the best bargains around and you can germinate, grow and flower this tropical vine - the cup-and-saucer v...

Easier to grow than to spell, Eschscholtzia californica , the state flower of California, is the botanical visual equivalent of a perfect, ...

Even digital botanic gardens have weeds - in the case of mine, dandelions Taraxacum officinale agg. Dandelions are cosmopolitan weeds and ...

Dicentra spectabilis , which comes from Japan, is one of those plants that's perfect for planting in a spot where a shaft of early morn...

This sinister plant, Scopolia carniolica , has been lurking in the undergrowth in my garden for several years, slowly spreading via undergr...

The very mention of the word 'orchid' conjures up images of exotic flowers from tropical climates that are expensive and difficult ...

Yes, it is a wood anemone Anemone nemorosa , but not as we know it Jim (as Mr. Spock on StarTrek might have remarked if he'd landed on a...