A Digital Botanic Garden

If we had enough space in our back garden I would plant one of the large flowered, tree-sized Magnolia species or hybrids - probably M. ...

Long ago I promised myself that the next garden I have will be designed around the seating. Before I do anything else I'll identify the...

For most of the year Azara microphylla isn't a very impressive plant - just a rather straggly shrub with masses of small, glossy...

I'm not a great fan of some of the overblown garden hybrid Rhododendrons but Rhododendron dauricum is always a welcome sight. It...

Flowers don't come much gaudier than this - primary colours straight out of a child's paintbox. It reminds me of som...

About twenty years ago I fancied trying my hand at dyeing ..... and where better to start than with indigo  extracted from woad...

There are over 100 species of Fritillaria and I think this one, F. michailovski , was the first I ever encountered, in the alpine ho...