The oldest plants in the world

Toby explains why ‘old’ soil and modern innovation keeps his favourite ancient variety of plant happy

For some trees, being blown over isn’t the end of the story. Jack Watkins salutes those hardy, storm-damaged and often ancient phoenix or recumbent trees that don’t take their fate lying down

Shoots of recovery for our ash trees ( ...

back in may, after winter and the slow creep of early spring, I took myself along a disused railway line near Lewes, Sussex, to be consumed by the month’s riot. This barely used path was somewhat over

IT was inevitable that he was going to be fascinated by trees, for he was born ‘Paul Wood’ and grew up in a house in Dover that backed on to a forest. But no one could have predicted the lengths that

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