Now that spring gardens are finally taking shape, the Country Life Nursery is bursting with plants of all kinds, all of which can be delivered to your door in just a couple of days. For instance you ...

Aim: Recent changes in land use have led to substantial loss and fragmentation of semi-natural grasslands. We assessed the relative effect of current and historical landscape composition, and ...

Gardeners have been drawn to primulas for centuries. These early spring flowers, ‘prime roses’ in Old French, have had few rivals when flowering. And with so many varieties, success was guaranteed for ...

"For now, it is my sun room and I'm planning on soaking up as much vitamin D as I possibly can." Even though the weather for March was a bit unbelievable, there is a silver lining to every cloud: the ...

The primula tribe is a huge and varied one encompassing woodland-dwelling wild primroses and also those whose preference is for squelchy bogs or rocky alpine slopes. There are fairy primulas (Primula ...

Native cowslips bring tall stems of dangling, yellow flowers filled with early nectar for the bees. They are beautiful naturalised in shady patches of rough lawn, and now is the time to plant small ...