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A close observation of the season’s cycles and respect for ecology have been the guiding principles in the development of the garden at Highlands, in the High Weald of East Sussex

It’s now 25 years since the Millennium Seed Bank opened at Kew’s wild botanical garden Wakehurst. In that time it has logged more than 2.5 billion seeds from more than 40,000 wild plants. This summer,

With a ‘butterfly emergency’ in the UK, conservationists are gearing up for this year’s Big Butterfly Count. But what has happened to these insects? And can they – on a wing and a prayer – ever bounce back?

Wild ash trees are evolving resistance to the ...

News that Ventnor Botanic Garden on the Isle of Wight has just planted the first citrus grove in the UK made the front pages recently, with the tabloids trumpeting an exciting future where we bask in

Shoots of recovery for our ash trees ( ...