Spurge is the common name for wild euphorbias - a little acid green plant common in some meadows and verges. They are members of a...

Dahlias are easy to grow, they come in a profusion of shapes, sizes and colours, flower from summer until late autumn and you can both...

Plant of the month for November 2021 is the bleuet - or cornflower. It is not in bloom now, but is the flower the French associate with...

Over the last 10 days I have been collecting the last of my summer seeds - and there is time to collect more. Sunny days, when seed heads...

My plant of the month for August is Verbena bonariensis - if happy it seeds like crazy, it flowers all summer long; its height means that...

June sees the start of summer and, by now, plants in the garden should be growing strongly and daily tasks have morphed from sowing seeds...

I read somewhere that the three most popular French flowering plants are the rose, the peony and the iris –and it is not hard to...