Alpines such as conifers and creeping plants hail from exposed, challenging habitats, making them hardy choices for UK gardens ...

Dappled shade from trees for some of the day in high summer ... Dalmatian cranesbill (Geranium dalmaticum) with light pink summer flowers, Phlox douglasii “Red Admiral”, Phlox subulata ...

This oak tree has stood in this very spot since long before he or I walked the Earth. It is early winter when MacKenzie, an atmospheric scientist and director of Birmingham University Institute ...

Just because your garden isn't the brightest, doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to have it filled with sweet-smelling flowers. Here's what to plant ...

The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, there were rivers and lakes as well as Columbian mammoths ...

Fruit trees need to be grown in the right conditions if they're to flower and fruit to their full potential. Bare-root fruit trees are generally cheaper to buy than potted trees, and the time to buy ...