A Digital Botanic Garden

When I first saw this wonderful shrub growing in a garden near Cambridge this week I thought it was Viburnum x burkwoodii but when I poste...

Few spring flowers have such grace and elegance as Erythronium 'Pagoda', right from the time that the buds form to the moment when...

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.  ...