Strong spatial genetic structure in plant populations can increase homozygosity, reducing genetic diversity and adaptive potential. The strength of spatial genetic structure largely depends on rates ...

Long-lived, gloriously colourful, richly scented dianthus are a joy. The only problem is they are almost too pretty It all began with a Sunday afternoon trip to Special Plants in Wiltshire. Being ...

Last summer the star plant in my gravel garden was the Carthusian pink, Dianthus carthusianorum. It provided a splash of bright magenta from June until September, producing a succession of slender ...

Garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith has used his expertise to create an exotic, smaller-scale version of the Olympic wildflower meadows. Sarah Raven reports . Tom Stuart-Smith's meadow in bloom. Plants ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It would not be an English summer without roses. They are flowering by the hundred on the roof of my house, up ...