Gardening’s king of trivia and brain-teasers, Graham Clarke

One of the largest celebrations in the world is about to begin. The Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is a 15-day celebration at the end of winter, and this year it kicks off at the start of the l

Weekly prize crossword

Enter this month’s crossword for a chance to win one of 12 begonia ‘Apricot Shades Improved’ worth £14.99 each. Entry form overleaf

Amateur botanist John Bradby Blake and his collaborators never completed their illustrated record of Chinese flora, but they still stoked Britain’s passion for the Asian country’s plants

It’s out with winter blues and in with the blossoming prunus, unless it happens to be English pottery. Lucien de Guise finds out what Coalport brought to the tableware