A Digital Botanic Garden

I posted some pictures a couple of weeks ago of Sparmannia africana , which has remarkable stamens that sp...

Each year I try to grow something a little bit unusual that's also edible and this year it was the turn of this weird fruit, the African...

For most of the year you could walk right past a Cercidiphyllum japonicum tree without a second glance but in autumn it always stops people...

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...