I’m a lover of nature, especially trees. I’m always on the lookout for new books about trees and I’ve just discovered two ...

Then there are Sunset plant hardiness zones, which apply to the western U.S. and are based on winter minimum and summer ...

The miniature trees are meant to imitate their full-sized relatives ... However, in containers, it makes a gorgeous, ...

Small, native trees fill an important but often-neglected plane of the landscape ... Male hollies are the all-important pollinators. Their spring flowers attract native bees; and they host the ...

Wait a minute…that is NOT the way the song goes. What do Christmas trees and daffodils have in common? In a word: December.

There are many holiday plants on the market: poinsettias, Thanksgiving and Christmas cacti, cyclamens, Norfolk Island pines, ...

Irises are also perfect plants that complement daffodils, with showy blooms that emerge from spring through to summer. One ...

Wind rock is the term we use to describe how the actions of extreme high wind and gales can damage and destabilise plants. It ...

Winter is a season that few could genuinely love, yet as the leaves and flowers abandon us, the structure of the countryside ...

As apricot trees flower in early spring, the cold can kill the blooms and spoil any hopes of a fruit harvest ... gardens ...

There’s an art in choosing and looking after our Christmas trees, and happily the RHS have issued a set of guidelines for Sun ...

Cacti, which I usually keep as bonsai at home, resembled full-grown trees here. On the other side, the foot of the mountains ...