What is the prickliest plant?

MANY years ago, when I developed and printed my own black and white photographs, I took a picture of a Highland pony named Ailsa that I looked after. It’s not a remarkable image, but I found it recent

Spectacular, intriguing and rather bizarre, Sarracenia is a group of plants that defies expectation. Their bold and colourful trumpets look exotic, even alien, yet they are resoundingly earthbound, an

Stick insects often find themselves transported to new abodes thanks to their talent for camouflage, but they are most at home in the West Country, suggests Ian Morton

WE’VE all done it – we’ve picked up a plant somewhere because we liked the look of it, and then lived to regret it. Perhaps it’s turned out to be a thug, taking over a border, or it’s a prolific self-

Prop them up to make sure they stay perky all summer

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