A Digital Botanic Garden

Few seeds have such a pleasing shape as freshly shelled broad beans and I cannot think of another vegetable crop...

Mention the word 'autumn' and what colours spring to mind?  Most likely crimson, scarlet, orange, yellow, russet, gold ......... bu...

Meadow saffron, sometimes known as autumn crocus, also has the rather salacious name of 'naked ladie...

You'd never imagine that flowers with such 'cute little faces' could be capable of such violence ...... ....... afte...

One of the joys of spring is to watch buds develop and then burst - exquisite shapes with all the beauty of the flowers packaged within.  ...

Pasque flower usually flowers in our garden around Eastertide, but this year an early Easter and an exceptionally la...

I was never a great fan of Cyclamen until I started buying this little beauty, C.hederifolium , as a winter house plant. It ticks all the b...