Article from Science reporter, BBC News "In a small, noisy labratory, tucked away in London's Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, a tiny...

My most spectacular garden is the one I’m constantly creating and re-creating in my head. Where budget, space, and lack of time limit real g...

By guest blogger Jeanette Ankoma-Sey Foraging by definition is not sexy: it is plant material eaten by grazing livestock. When the term is ...

If I could banish one word from the English language, it would be "groundcover."  The era of the groundcover must end.  While...

If I could plant only one woody plant in my garden, and I wanted one for year-round beauty, wildlife habitat, and ethnobotanical curiosity, ...

Why settle for fruit grown in Brazil or Chile when you can walk down the block and pick your own ripe darling?  Recently, I've stumble...

It was the garden heard round the world. Beth Chatto’s garden in Essex, England, is perhaps the single most influential garden of the last c...

June is the green month. The sharp spring hues of chartreuse and lime mellow into their summer fullness, adding depth and dimension to fiel...

“The chief vice in gardens is to be merely pretty,” wrote American landscape architect Fletcher Steele in the 1930’s. “I believe there is no...

[Image from Mayang.com] This article has been linked from The University of Oxford.  For original link, click here . "The received wi...

The first of the Groundbreakers honorees goes to the inheritors of the European formal garden tradition. The family firm of Wirtz Internatio...