A Digital Botanic Garden

It came as a surprise to me that red-hot pokers thrive in my garden here in North East England. If you ...

Ever since masterwort Astrantia major was introduced into British gardens in 1597, from its native central and ...

" Helmet-fluore, or the great Monkes-hood, beareth very faire and goodly blew floures in a shape like a helmet; whi...

I've waited seven years for this. Back in 2007 I bought a small plant of giant fennel Ferula communis , when I was mainly attracted ...

June is the peak month for lupin flowers, although they don't seem to be such popular border plants as they once were.  ...

A large prickly pear cactus, like this Opuntia macrocentra that comes from the Pecos region of Texas, is a thing of beauty when in ful...

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. ...