Evergreens are the unsung heroes of garden borders. They can be versatile and resilient, adding greenery to boundaries, ...

In this week's Gardening Update, Carol walks us through some of the more fragrant plants in the greenhouse. Some of them ...

These winter wonders have spidery flowers – which withstand the winter weather – in shades ranging from pale yellow to rich ...

The aromatic and medicinal plants are harvested in the mountains of Tbainia village near the city of Ain Drahem, in northwest ...

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Gardeners are always on the hunt for tough, fast-growing, and lush ground covers, but this popular plant could bring you much ...

Traditional flowers such as marigolds, chrysanthemums, carnations, and calendula are often used with mango leaves to create ...

Blood oranges (here we commonly plant the Moro blood orange variety) may develop a sweet flavor in December, but the color is ...

A large evergreen shrub, the older branches with a cinnamon- and cream-coloured bark. Leaves small, broadly ovate and aromatic; flowers to 2cm in width, white; berry purple. “The scheme draws on ...

Madagascar’s extraordinary medicinal plants, prized for their unique properties and used in life-saving cancer drugs and ...