Country diary: The impossible beauty of a flower meadow in summer
June 2024
Botanist tells how nettles helped solve Soham murders
Turning your garden into a haven for wildlife
Houseplant of the week
Houseplant of the week: bamboo palm
An ode to poppies: the prettiest, trickiest stars of summer gardens
Country diary
Country diary: The grass is up – and so is the pollen count
Build a hedgehog highway! 33 ways to welcome more wildlife into your garden
Country diary
Country diary: My accidental, flowering tower block
The age of extinction
Protecting just 1.2% of Earth’s land could save most-threatened species, says study
Country diary
Country diary: The prettiest of castle flowers – but how did it get here?
Change by degrees
A gardening club is a collective way to grow food, flowers and friendship
The gardener who took a Canadian city to court for the right to not mow his lawn
Pass notes
The corpse flower: is this the world’s smelliest plant?
Plantwatch
Plantwatch: the trees that synchronise reproduction around summer solstice
Country diary
Country diary: A wild place that should be treasured, not bulldozed
Tobacco-like plant engineered to pump out nutrients found in breast milk
Weekend
Azeem Rafiq talks racism, cricket, and leaving Britain; Philippa Perry offers advice on a painful crush; why Rory Stewart quit politics; and the big British bamboo crisis – podcast
Country diary
Country diary: Fifty shades of green
The big British bamboo crisis: ‘It invaded my beautiful home’