Despite the evil spring weather so far I decided to do some work on the flowers now in bloom. The idea came to me on a day of pouring rain when Keith and Mary Hall, of Downham, brought me a book. It ...

THE name cardamine doesn't trip lightly off the tongue, but many gardeners will know it as lady's smock - and the common alternatives, cuckoo flower and milkmaid. The subtle colours of our native ...

A West Midlands businessman with a passion for part-time bird watching uncovered key clues about the predatory cuckoo in an early nature film. The work of Edgar Chance during the 1920s is featured in ...

The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew have created a new ‘native seed hub’ to help gardeners restore Britain’s lost wild flower meadows. Green field-speedwell, cuckoo flower and common knapweed Some 98 per ...

WILD FLOWERS in the southwest are out in abundance, weeks earlier than usual. Irish spurge, the poacher’s old reliable for trapping salmon in these parts, is fully grown. Banks of the blue heath ...