Plants

Shaun Schroeder, 59, plants around 140 hanging baskets and fence planters each year.

Gardener shares cheap tips to keep your garden thriving in a heatwave

Experts warning over potentially ‘harmful’ froth on garden plants

Best electric garden shredders for chipping, shredding and maintaining your garden

Best electric garden shredders

Japanese Knotweed. (Pic credit: Andrew Smith)

Invasive plants in the UK and how to manage them

Elonor Tivey at her seven acre field in Leicestershire where she farms peonies.

Teacher who quit to grow peonies says sales have doubled every year

100 cows deployed to reserve 50,000 acres of land

Professor Isla Myers-Smith monitors vegetation on Qikiqtaruk-Herschel Island in the Canadian Arctic (Picture: Jeffrey Kerby)

Arctic ‘greening’ is accelerating global warming in more ways than one

Private Scottish island is up for sale for £150,000

This is the pub reportedly owned by Banksy

Take a look at a pub reportedly owned by Banksy

The warmer days of spring are just around the corner - but present some hazards for our four-legged friends.

7 dog hazards to look out for as we emerge from winter

Best battery powered chainsaws UK 2023

Best battery powered chainsaws - cordless models tested and reviewed

Keep these rules and regulations in mind before heading out into your garden.

7 gardening laws Brits might unintentionally break this spring

M&S has apologised for displaying daffodils next to spring onions

M&S apologises after displaying poisonous daffodils with spring onions

If you spot any of these flowers in your guarden then it's time to take action.

The 9 invasive plants that could land you a fine

Aldi launches new spring garden range for limited time only with trendy wellies for just £9.99 - how to buy

Aldi launches new spring garden range for limited time only

Best Garden Sheds UK 2022

Best garden sheds: metal, wooden, corner and barn options for outdoors

The vast expanse of wetland and peatland in Caithness and Sutherland is the largest of its kind in Europe (Picture: Getty Images)

How Scotland's peatlands can soak up even more carbon from atmosphere

Here’s 10 spring blooms that could be toxic to your pets

10 toxic spring flowers pet owners should avoid

Best garden sprinklers: sprinkler systems to water your lawns

Best garden sprinklers: sprinkler systems to water your lawns

Soft textures can help to make a space cosy (photo: @adamchamberspandd)

Five simple ways to refresh your home's interior

Some of the plants that can bring colour to a window box.

10 attractive and interesting plants that thrive in window boxes

Six common household products to save indoor plants this winter

Sixty-three per cent of UK gardeners play music to their plants, research found (photo: Adobe)

Could music spark a growth spurt in your plants?

Some employers are including fun social spaces in their workplaces (photo: Thirdway)

The five "hottest" workplace trends for 2023

The Natural History Museum has released a list of new animal and plant species found in 2022

Scientists release list of new animals and plants found in 2022

A mum has found a genius hack to permanently rid her bathroom of mould -

Mum finds hack to rid her bathroom of mould - using plants

The current rate of species loss has been compared to the extinction event that killed off the dinosaurs (Picture: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

Plants behaving strangely is something to keep an eye on – Scotsman comment

The leisure centres will be closed for longer

Better Leisure reduces opening hours as energy bills triple

Here are the best ways to look after plant during the winter (photo: Pixabay)

Ways to look after houseplants in the winter

Sometimes plants and pets are best kept apart.

The autumn plants and flowers that are dangerous for pets

August often means summer holidays away from home – but it is important to not neglect your garden. Ask friends, family, and neighbours to water plants and flowers

Top 10 jobs to do in the garden in August

The three-year PLANTS (Plant Listing at the National Trust for Scotland) project will involve a team of experts working to catalogue all the plant species in the charity’s gardens -- thought to be more than 100,000. Picture: John Linton

One potato, two potato: Count starts in project to log plants in iconic gardens

Scottish Thistles are just one of many plants you can cultivate in your homemade terrarium.

Scottish Highlands in a Jar: How to make your own Scottish Terrarium

Cooking outside is a great way of reducing trapped heat in the home (photo: Adobe)

Tips to keep your home cool in the heat

Use a parasol to create shade in the garden

Keep cool this summer - How to put you in the shade in the garden!

Seven indoor plants to brighten up cold winter day

As a resolution for 2022 clean your gardening tools (photo: Shutterstock)

Guide to gardening resolutions 2022

Martin Kennedy SNFU

Differences on gene editing could disrupt UK farming trade

A peek inside Newington's latest plant shop, offering a selection of succulents, large leafy houseplants and dried flowers

Moss & Fern: the latest plant shop opening its doors in Edinburgh

Experts said species of plants and fungi are probably disappearing faster than botanists can find and name them

Two-fifths of world’s plants under threat, with climate change a factor

Prof Derek Stewart, Agrifood business sector lead, James Hutton Institute

The green recovery will take root in Scottish agriculture – Prof Derek Stewart

Seven tools to help you grow a dream garden

How a sensory garden can improve your wellbeing

Redecorating a rented home can be tricky since you’re often not able to make any permanent changes (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here are 7 easy ways you can brighten up your rented home

Working from home may have its benefits like getting up a bit later, wearing comfy clothes and having an oven handy for making lunch (Photo: Shutterstock)

How to improve your home office: 8 tips for a better home working space

Stimulate all your senses with a stress reducing sensory garden

Top 10 flowers and plants known to relieve stress

These are 10 flowers and plants that are known to ease stress

Bill now alerts his village to the arrival of food deliver vans (Picture: Bill Jamieson)

Coronavirus: If we’re finding new ways of working, why can’t banks? – Bill Jamie...

Hedgehogs slow their metabolism in winter and only become active again if temperatures rise above a critical point (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA)

How British wildlife greeted the warmest winter on record – Paul Ashton

Claims to support new parking charges don't add up, says

Our fascination with indoor potted plants has a long and colourful history

Stella Ross-Craig

Plants can cure you so grasp the nettle

Global warming 'less threat to diversity than habitat damage by man'

Intensive farming threatens wildflowers

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A man vaping, as researchers are searching for volunteers to take part in a new study being launched into the potential health effects of passive vaping. Picture: Nicholas.T.Ansell/PA Wire

New study will aim to find out health impact of 'passive vaping'

Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie arrive for the Warner Brothers Pictures red carpet photocall of "Barbie" during CinemaCon 2023 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada, on April 25, 2023. (Photo by BRIDGET BENNETT/AFP via Getty Images)

Barbie is the blockbuster film of summer 2023 - Gaby Soutar

Scottish Green Party co-leader Lorna Slater has been heading the decision on bracken herbicide permission (pic: Jane Barlow/PA)

'It could cost lives': Farmers reach tipping point over herbicide decision