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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 buttercups in full golden flower) to affection (there’s something irresistibly charming about the dai...

'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 take place May 18- 23 this year, will now be postponed until September.  Despite its best efforts...

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 too that weeds can be invasive plants that threaten environments and compete with native species.

'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 even worse. Scary headlines hold our attention because of negativity bias – the human desire not...