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Plants

August 2024

  • Aerial view of buildings in Vancouver to the right of the picture, while the left is taken up by trees edging an artificial lagoon and the sea

    Weatherwatch
    Surrounding cities with trees may bring down urban heat

    Belts of trees and large lakes suck cooler air that reduces urban heat island effect by 0.5C, scientists say
  • Invasive Himalayan balsam flowering alongside native meadow crane’s-bill.

    Country diary
    Country diary: A modest defence of the Himalayan balsam flower

    Witton-le-Wear, County Durham: This non-native fixture of the English countryside is much maligned, but they are of increasing importance to our bees
  • The view between my horse’s ears riding in woods near Porlock. The low bushes visible along the edge of the path are whortleberry plants.

    Country diary
    Country diary: Into the woods for the (near) silence of midsummer

    Porlock, Somerset: Only hungry horseflies and a young buzzard disturb the peace, while the deep green has taken on a blue glint

July 2024

  • RHS Hyde Hall Cactus

    RHS asks for gardeners’ successes and failures to plan for changing climate

  • Abbeyleix peat bog, County Laois, Ireland

    Country diary
    Country diary: Pine martens, dragonflies … this scarred peat bog is healing

  • Woodland on the North Downs near Abinger Hammer, Surrey: tall, ancient trees line a track. Autumn leaves have fallen but many green and orange leaves are still on the trees; the light shines through them.

    Goals to stop decline of nature in England ‘off track’, report warns

  • Muddy dog wearing a backpack

    Backpack-wearing dogs enlisted to rewild urban nature reserve in Lewes

  • Butterfly weed or butterfly bush: can you identify these 10 plants?

  • How a plant identification app helped me find happiness and satisfaction

  • No growing pains: the 20 houseplants that are hardest to kill

  • Brief letters
    What is art for, if not for political discourse

  • Half of Kew tree species at risk of death owing to climate crisis, study finds

  • Botanists vote to remove racist reference from plants’ scientific names

  • ‘They’ve been something else this year’: slugs wreak havoc on UK gardens

  • Inside Saturday
    How often should I water my plants? The million-dollar question answered

  • Plantwatch
    Plantwatch: new species of elusive fairy lantern found in Malaysia

  • Country diary
    Country diary: Nature shows its mettle at the old steelworks

  • ‘Goldmine’ collection of wheat from 100 years ago may help feed the world, scientists say

  • Country diary
    Country diary: Some flowers are happy on the mess we leave behind

  • Country diary
    Country diary: A blissful brush with Swedish flora

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