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Plants

August 2024

  • A nodule of ergot in a triticale crop

    Country diary
    Country diary: A little madness contained in the crop

  • Plumed seeds of spear thistle

    Country diary
    Country diary: On a thundery, windless day, aerial plankton hang in the summer heat

  • Mary Gibby holding the frond of a tree fern at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 2010, in an image by the blind photographer Rosita McKenzie that was shown in the exhibition People of Edinburgh at Edinburgh Library in 2010

    Other lives
    Mary Gibby obituary

  • Lesser celandine (Ranunculus ficaria) flowering mass growing along a disused industrial railway line, Shropshire, England.

    Country diary
    Country diary 1974: the summer beauty of an old railway

  • All-night streetlights make leaves inedible to insects, study finds

  • Weatherwatch
    Surrounding cities with trees may bring down urban heat

  • Country diary
    Country diary: A modest defence of the Himalayan balsam flower

  • Country diary
    Country diary: Into the woods for the (near) silence of midsummer

July 2024

  • RHS Hyde Hall Cactus

    RHS asks for gardeners’ successes and failures to plan for changing climate

  • Abbeyleix peat bog, County Laois, Ireland

    Country diary
    Country diary: Pine martens, dragonflies … this scarred peat bog is healing

  • Woodland on the North Downs near Abinger Hammer, Surrey: tall, ancient trees line a track. Autumn leaves have fallen but many green and orange leaves are still on the trees; the light shines through them.

    Goals to stop decline of nature in England ‘off track’, report warns

  • Muddy dog wearing a backpack

    Backpack-wearing dogs enlisted to rewild urban nature reserve in Lewes

  • Butterfly weed or butterfly bush: can you identify these 10 plants?

  • How a plant identification app helped me find happiness and satisfaction

  • No growing pains: the 20 houseplants that are hardest to kill

  • Brief letters
    What is art for, if not for political discourse

  • Half of Kew tree species at risk of death owing to climate crisis, study finds

  • Botanists vote to remove racist reference from plants’ scientific names

  • ‘They’ve been something else this year’: slugs wreak havoc on UK gardens

  • Inside Saturday
    How often should I water my plants? The million-dollar question answered

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