In spring the plants are just starting to awake from their dormancy period. This is a period of vigorous activity within the ...

Maintaining connection over distance is hard; expressing feelings adds another layer of difficulty. Sending peonies as a gift ...

Popular with designers and homeowners who love color, double drenching relies on juxtapositioning hues of similar shades for ...

The combined 2% rewards rate — 1% when you make a purchase and 1% when you pay it off — is among the best on any cash-back card, especially for an annual fee of $0. Many or all of the products ...

OKAY, IT IS October and that means all the vendors have spring flowering bulbs in stock! Now, today, tomorrow, go out and buy hundreds of bulbs. But why hundreds?

October is a great month for transplanting certain trees, shrubs and perennials and also for planting bulbs such as tulips, ...

An evergreen shrub with an upright habit and glossy, ovate dark green leaves with finely serrated edges. Produces semi-double, peony-form lavender pink flowers to 8cm across, in autumn and winter ...

An annual poppy, to 1.2m high, with deeply toothed, pale blue-green leaves. In late spring and early summer, produces fully double, peony-like white flowers on leafy stems, followed by large, ...

If one phrase encapsulates the fissures that opened up earlier this week as the world's nations met for their annual UN General Assembly, it was "double standards." "We rebel against the double ...

Anne (not her real name) is a single mother and one of thousands of the predominantly female workers in Kenya's flower industry, harvesting and categorising blooms in one of the many greenhouse ...

There is the chance to hear Hatherleigh and Flowers in concert action in Reading this weekend, with extra attractions as part of the British Bandsman Concert series. The weekend features Hatherleigh ...