With hosepipe bans in force across several English regions and more restrictions likely to follow, gardeners face some tough choices. When every drop counts, which plants deserve your precious ...

Biodiversity is in rapid decline, across the UK and globally. Butterflies are excellent for helping us understand these changes. Where butterfly communities are rich and diverse, so too is the ...

A Buddleia globosa… a must-have for a cottage garden collector of unusual plants. Photo: Jackie Warburton I’M growing a messy shrub, a Buddleia globosa, in the garden this year. It’s good for planting ...

In the summer of 1971, eight hundred pupils went on strike in Stepney, demanding that their teacher, Chris Searle, be reinstated after the school fired him for publishing a book of their poetry. At a ...

Some species, like Buddleia (butterfly bush), might break dormancy much later. Gardeners sometimes expect everything to leaf out by June 1st—but plants follow their own internal clocks.