A Digital Botanic Garden

All plants are capable of gradual movement as a result of slow growth, but relatively few species can make the kind of rapid movements that ...

You don't need to be a gardener for very long before you discover that within every species there are always a few plants that don't...

Since this is the time of year when most plants in my part of the world are setting seeds, I thought I'd post a few images of these wond...

About 20 years ago a South Africa botanist gave me a few seeds of this strange succulent, Cyphostemma juttae , which grows in rocky, arid pa...

If you are looking for a plant that has good credentials for inclusion in a wildlife garden, then soapwort Saponaria officinalis  comes clos...

A ripe pomegranate fruit is a natural object of great beauty - as are its seeds, with their succulent juicy aril, when they are scattered li...

Any plant with the specific name amazonica always has an air of the exotic about it, but the truth is that this attractive houseplant has ...