A Digital Botanic Garden

I'm not usually a great fan of double flowers but I do admire peonies and these two double-flowered varieties are so completely, ex...

It has always seemed to me that flower buds are some of the most remarkable natural objects- the botanical equivalent of a firework - conta...

To mark the beginning of the football World Cup in South Africa, here's a familiar South African succulent species - the partridge-brea...

I have to admit that I'm not a huge fan of broccoli as a vegetable to eat,  but nothing comes close to Romanesco broccoli - in my estim...

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 ...