“When you get this home from the nursery, I like to snip off all these flowers and make a pretty arrangement on my kitchen table. It allows the plants to put all of their energy into the root ...

The parents of a baby who died after choking on his food at nursery have welcomed new safer-eating measures issued by central government for early years childcare. Oliver Steeper died aged nine ...

A £15m funding pot to allow primary schools to deliver hundreds of nursery places has been launched. It forms the first stage of the government's plan to open an additional 3,000 nurseries in ...

It's that time of year when garden centres come into their own. Whether you’re after colourful winter bedding plants for a hanging basket, a new evergreen shrub for the front garden, or simply a ...

A German town has banned the humble cactus from the town hall, schools and nurseries. The mayor of Plettenberg, near Dusseldorf in North Rhine-Westphalia, banned the spiky plants from municipal ...

In “The Forbidden Garden,” Simon Parkin examines the mad, heroic decision during the siege of Leningrad to guard biodiversity at the cost of human life. By Deborah Blum Deborah Blum ...