The last month of the year may not seem like the ideal time to be planting seeds, but there are a surprising number of flowers you can plant in December for a burst of winter and spring color. There ...

This weekend, Branklyn Garden is welcoming early visitors who, until Sunday, can admire the special collection of snowdrops that are currently in flower. Every year, Branklyn opens for a few days ...

When Peggy Bowditch drives to her summer home in Maine each May, she ships her clothes by UPS so she can load the back of her station wagon with seedlings, including three trays of Himalayan blue ...

Once thought to be a Himalayan myth, Bhutan’s national flower is a once-in-a-lifetime find. On a clear day, the entire Jomolhari Range – including Bhutan’s second highest peak and one of the country’s ...

Himalayan poppies grow in some of the most inhospitable parts of the world – which is why they thrive in Yorkshire winters AT this time of the year if you take a walk along the lower section of the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The colour blue is associated with calm, cool, peaceful spaces, but show me a blue flower and I’m anything but calm. The thrill of blue ...

AS WITH all good gardens, the blue poppy meadow at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden started with the soil. Executive director Steve Hootman describes the site as “a big, goopy, sludgy mess.” ...

India's diverse geography gives the country a vast abundance of flora, and nowhere is this more visible than in the country's hilly regions. From the Western Ghats to the Himalayas, the latter ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been updated to correct the description of Shannon Still. Vegeta from the anime “Dragon Ball-Z” could’ve been thinking about Longwood Gardens when he screamed his famous ...