Series which tells the story of how people came to understand the natural order of the plant world, and how the quest to discover how plants grow uncovered the secret to life on the planet.
Flowering plants, or angiosperms, make up about 90% of all living plant species, including most food crops. In the distant past, they outpaced plants such as conifers and ferns, which predate them ...
The cream teas, the sudden showers, the panama hats; few events on our green and pleasant isle seem quite so quintessentially English as the Chelsea Flower Show. For the world's ...
Escape from the British Museum tells the story of a jade teapot becoming human and wishing to return to China. A short video series is racking up views in China, amplifying calls for the British ...
That's relatively recent in geologic time: If all Earth's history were compressed into an hour, flowering plants would exist for only the last 90 seconds. But once they took firm root about 100 ...
Unlike animals, plants don’t need a male and a female because their flowers have both male parts and female parts. Pollen in plants is like sperm in animals. It comes from the male part of the ...
These plants thrive in cooler temperatures and require specific conditions like full sunlight, well-drained soil, and regular watering to flourish, ensuring a beautifully blooming winter garden.
Gardening in small spaces doesn’t mean giving up on big, beautiful flowering bulbs. Trust me, I’ve seen tiny balconies turn into lush mini-gardens, all thanks to a few well-chosen bulbs.