Guarding nature’s precious veterans

With the support of The King, a pioneering initiative is fighting to save majestic oaks, the age-old stalwarts of the British landscape, for generations to come, finds Julie Harding

Druids were known to have a love of the land and nature, and their beliefs continue today as Dudley Edmunds explains...

Originally a means of keeping a living record of garden plants, our 722 National Plant Collections–of everything from Abies to Zingiber –set the gold standard across the world. Charles Quest-Ritson meets some of the expert collection holders

Shrubs for biodiversity and better gardens for us all

IN a modern world there always seems to be a new, faster, more high-tech way of doing things. When it comes to looking after some of our most treasured historic sites, however, the National Trust is s

Mass extinctions and evolutionary leaps, from bacteria to Homo sapiens