Perky portulaca brightens the garden with festive blooms all summer long.

To me it’s like watching the opening curtain at the opera, our very own version of magnolia grandiflora. I think I’ve been fascinated by Australian natives from when I was running around barefoot in ...

“I’ve never missed an early morning flower market in 30 years, and I’ve never slept in. Never,” says Saskia Havekes, owner of Sydney’s Grandiflora florist. Rising at 4am is something that Havekes has ...

She’s in the business of short-lived blooms: but Saskia Havekes’s Potts Point store is anything but transient. The first thing you notice when you cross the threshold at Grandiflora is the palpable ...

Accustomed as American gardeners are to planting so many plants from other regions, it comes as shock when a choice tree turns out to be a native. Particularly when it is as wondrous as the Magnolia ...

In the days when you could get into Kew Gardens for an old penny stamped with Britannia on the back, I regularly travelled on the 65 bus from Ealing Broadway with a rain mac and a packed lunch. By the ...