Dark-brown flakes discovered inside a 1,900-year-old Roman glass vial ...

A riot of coloured bark, an emblem of resilience and final rest, an integral part of rural life and blessed relief from a headache: the willow tree has little to weep about, finds Deborah Nicholls-Lee

So alluring is the scent as it hangs in the cold air that no garden should be without a winter-flowering daphne. Charles Quest-Ritson picks the best

IF I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I’d be picking roses for a lifetime,” so says a Swedish proverb. And it’s certainly true as far as I’m concerned. But then the association between rose

Joan Nalubega has achieved outstanding success at the young age of 28. In the last 10 years, her contribution to preventing malaria in her homeland, Uganda, has attracted prestigious awards and global

There’s no shortage of great picks at this year’s TEFAF Maastricht, the Netherlands, including a Barbara Hepworth sculpture, a pastel portrait by Dora Maar and two sections of 4th-century Roman mosaics