A Digital Botanic Garden

With the possible exception of the bluebell, the primrose Primula vulgaris is probably Britain's most popular spring flower. Even now, ...

Passion flowers Passiflora spp. are amongst the most elaborate of all flowers but I particularly like the relative simplicity of this dimin...

Carnivorous plants have a problem. On the one hand, they must catch and digest insects to supplement the meagre soil nitrogen supplies in t...

Hops have been cultivated in Britain for flavouring beer since the sixteenth century – and for much longer in continen...

Until last year we had a large patch of this Iris unguicularis growing outside our back door, between the house wall and the pa...

Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for 2011 to all readers of this blog. I know some people who think that Hydrangea flowers are mor...

This must surely be one of the most intimidating of all plants - the Paper-spined Cholla Tephrocactus articulatus var. papyracanthus . I...