THE launch of Kew Gardens’ annual Orchid Festival was breathtaking this week. The spectacular event is themed around China, and 3,500 orchids are among the 6,000 plants packed into a giant ...

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Some planting combinations are designed to be stable and static, with reliable perennials that work well together and stay largely in proportion for years. Other schemes are more dynamic, changing ...

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As time passes, I have come to regard the African bush daisy (Euryops pectinatus) as an ornamental plant that no Southern California garden should be without – and not only because it’s one of my wife ...

As easy to grow as they are pretty to look at, it's worth researching the best wallflowers to plant now as autumn is absolutely the time to get these little beauties in the soil. Whether you're ...

In 1829, William Cobbett (1763-1835) marvelled at how the wallflower ‘grows well on old walls, or any walls, indeed on rubbish of any kind, and makes a pretty show wherever it is found’. The ...