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Anomalies are a sign that global heating is changing behaviour of flora and fauna

If your garden is wild and windblown, you need alpines, the SAS of the plant world, to withstand all the elements can throw at them

Celebrity gardeners are encouraging aspiring plotters to register for their local community garden during this years National Allotments Week. Horticultural charity Garden Organic (gardenorganic.org) is encouraging current and future allotment holders to learn about the benefits of the organic way of growing and naturally controlling pests. Experts from the charity are highlighting the wider benefits of allotments, which cover everything from protecting the planet, to saving us money and ...

Met Office data shows the UK average annual temperatures have risen by 3.9 per cent since 2015 with some months seeing a 50 per cent increase, allowing gardeners to grow a wider range of plants.

I N GARDENS across Britain the grass has stopped growing. They are not parched or drought-stricken. In fact, they are greener and more immaculate than before. That is because the lawns are actually synthetic substitutes made from thermoplastic polymers. Britons are fascinated by lawns. Country estates have long competed to have the most perfectly manicured grassland. “What you’re saying in big loud capital letters, is ‘I’m so flipping wealthy’,” says Fiona Davison of the Royal Horti...

Gardening: Why we should love our weeds most of the time Weeds can serve as hugely useful indicators of different soil types and growing conditions about 3 hours ago   Relationships are complicated. Just consider weeds, that vast, rambunctious group of plants capable of provoking the gamut of emotions in most gardeners: from fear and loathing (step forward Japanese knotweed, the invasive, non-native perennial weed capable of undermining building foundations) to admiration (think fields of but...

This is a huge financial hit: exhibitors react to Chelsea Flower Show 2021 postponement  For the first time in its 108-year-history, the Chelsea Flower Show has been postponed. Exhibitors and garden designers respond to the news 2 February 2021 • 10:09am The Chelsea Flower show will now take place in autumn due to the rising Covid-19 infection rate  Credit: Aaron Chown On Wednesday 27 January, The Royal Horticultural Society announced that the Chelsea Flower Show, which was scheduled to ta...

Buddleia are sweet smelling, tall reaching invasive weeds. A weird side-effect of learning about plants for my own garden was now I saw ALL plants everywhere and this book provided an opening for more learning. I was interested to see that so many of the plants he profiled as “weeds” in the UK, were here, living as weeds too. Essentially ,a weed can be defined as a “plant growing in the wrong place”. In my extensive trawling for information about my local finds, I was well reminded to...

The reasons why we are optimistic about 2021 After a year to forget, 40 well-known figures tell us why they’re feeling positive about the future Brighter days will follow Credit: Illustration: Ellice Weaver for the telegraph Is there too much negativity in the world? If there is, it’s probably our fault – the media, that is. Famously in the hard-hearted world of journalism, “if it bleeds it leads,” and our tendency to highlight bad news may have made an objectively terrible year seem ...