Flowers
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How to get your Poinsettia to flower again next year
A Poinsettia can be for life, not just for Christmas!
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Blooms for cutting, cooking and critters
All flowers have a place in our hearts and on our plots but some have particular merit, as Emma Rawlings explains
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Spectacular Giant Lily Blooms at the Himalayan Gardens
Alongside more than 80 contemporary sculptures, the Himalayan Gardens and Sculpture Park showcase nature’s own masterpieces. Now is the time to see the spectacular giant Himalayan Lily (Cardiocrinum giganteum), which is currently in full bloom. To celebrate being open and…
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‘Grow to give’ flower project
A bestselling author who struggled with severe anxiety for more than 20 years is launching a national ‘let’s grow together’ campaign Nicola Bird, 48, from Chobham, Surrey, believes The Floral Project (Thefloralproject.co.uk) will help parents encourage their children to spend…
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Grow Some Sunshine’ To Support Our NHS Heroes.
Grow beautiful sunflowers to show your appreciation of hard working NHS staff during the current crisis In these uncertain times, there is one thing which we can always be sure of, NHS and other frontline workers will go above and…
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Hairy Biker Dave Myers rides into Southport Flower Show
Hairy Biker Dave Myers is set to ride into the 2019 Southport Flower Show to share some of his top tips for outdoor cooking The celebrity chef will be revving up some of his favourite summertime recipes as he appears…
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Snowdrop Festival brings first signs of Spring
On a wintry day there is nothing better than visiting a garden teeming with one of the earliest flowering plants of the year The National Garden Scheme’s fourth annual Snowdrop Festival brings the first signs of Spring to everyone with…
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Plants and bees – a 100 million-year-old love affair…
All gardeners love and appreciate the flowers in their gardens… …but few realise that almost all plants, shrubs and trees, are entirely dependent on pollinating insects for their ability to reproduce and thrive. In fact, plants evolved flowers purely as…
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Mudketeers diary -10th Oct 2018
Late bloomers My dahlias did not like the hot summer. They sat there doing nothing for ages. I think they were just waiting for cooler weather and now the display is lovely. This one is ‘Nicholas’. I am now hoping…
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Heatwave brings bumper year for British flowers
While arable vegetable crops are struggling in the heat, this summer’s heatwave has helped the British flower industry to blossom The Great British Florist has seen its cutting patch and wild meadows produce a bumper crop of flowers, thanks to…
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Gardeners ID best plants for bees
The three flowers most visited by bees are viper’s bugloss, teasel and toadflax, according to gardeners using the new Blooms for Bees app The app, created by scientists from Coventry University, is the only bumblebee-surveying app to record the flower…
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Rare tree flowers for the first time ever at Batsford Arboretum
Very rare Chinese tree flowers after a quarter of a century in Gloucestershire Excitement is building at Batsford Arboretum in Gloucestershire as a 25-year-old specimen of Emmenopterys henryi, a highly rare tree originating from China, is coming into flower for…
