What is the lotus effect?

At this time of year many lakes and rivers are thick with it but, while many anglers may curse the green stuff, here’s why the underwater world would be all the poorer without it...

‘A short walk around the garden can be like a world tour’

Decorating the land with their brilliant and varied hues, our native flora–which operate as clocks, calendars and Nature’s medicine cabinet–are simply blooming brilliant,

Our fabulous and funny columnist, comedian Helen Lederer is here to tell it like it is, in her own witty way…

Liz Zorab picks her favourite self-seeding and spreading plants for easier gardening

OF all the edible flowers rightly championed, I ...