Discover a natural world on your doorstep as you immerse your senses on this summer gardeners’ cruise around the British ...

Foraging for wild food is most popular in autumn, when berries ripen and mature on plants in hedgerows, woods, parks and coastlands. Temptingly bright red berries shine out like jewels and are easy to ...

The lily is amongst the most elegant of summer flowers, producing spectacular and often huge exotic-looking blooms across a wide spectrum of colours. Some lilies are richly perfumed, too. Flowers are ...

De Vere is a collection of historic mansion house estates and distinctive contemporary hotels. Here is your chance to win a revitalising escape to De Vere Tortworth Court, a historic manor house ...

Keeping chickens follows a long tradition of poultry keeping that reaches back for millennia. Chickens have lots of character and they're fairly easy to keep in most back gardens, even for beginners, ...

Bamboo is a woody plant in the grass family Poaceae, with tall, upright canes and long narrow leaves. Most bamboos have evergreen foliage with canes that come in shades including green, brown, yellow ...

Remember back in the days of the good old traditional garden centre? Those places were like little nature sanctuaries, filled with the nation’s favourite bedding plants, perennials, shrubs, fruit ...

When we asked our readers what gardening mistakes they made this year, hundreds of people responded. We've analysed the responses and found the ten most common mistakes, from pruning too hard and ...

Gardens and planted areas in towns and cities are effective at absorbing rainwater and preventing soil erosion. Their ability to take up water reduces the amount that the drainage systems have to cope ...

With its striking mohican-like crest, a black throat, and a black mask round its eye that looks like eyeliner, the waxwing is the 1980s pop star of the bird world. Slightly smaller than a starling, it ...