A sheep-eating plant is set to bloom over the next few days in a Surrey garden. In its natural habitat of the Andes, the 3m-tall Puya chilensis snares the animals in its razor-sharp spines, leaving them to perish and decay at its base – like a bag of fertiliser.
Sunday 16 June 2013
Sunday 02 June 2013
Gloria Dolores! Blimey, in May the gardening world does go bonkers. Things are whooshing past like those fast, non-stopping trains that run down the middle rails in quiet country stations.
Thursday 09 May 2013
Elton John is championing their rise to the world’s most famous flowerbeds
Wednesday 17 April 2013
What could be finer – now that the weather has improved – than a walk around some bucolic beds and borders?
Monday 15 April 2013
Two in three inmates leave prison without a job prospect - it’s no wonder such a high percentage end up reoffending
Monday 11 February 2013
How have garden gnomes made it into the news?
Sunday 30 December 2012
The potential to see some of the brightest displays of aurora borealis in 50 years continues through the first few months of 2013.
Wednesday 17 October 2012
England were well below their best but managed to cling onto a precious point from their delayed World Cup qualifier with Poland in Warsaw.
Monday 08 October 2012
The Royal Horticultural Society staged the annual Britain in Bloom awards at St Peter Port, in Guernsey, at the weekend.
Sunday 26 August 2012
Gardeners who sprinkle grounds on the soil to deter them break the law
Sunday 15 July 2012
Record rainfall leads to population explosion – and devastation of British gardens
Friday 06 July 2012
The Shard rises
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