“By providing a pit stop for pollinators, you will be doing your bit for the insects that allow us to survive. Without them, we are gone. ” Alan Titchmarsh
Create a Pit Stop for Pollinators
How Sunflowers Attract Pollinators
“bullseye patterns have long been known to improve the attractiveness of flowers to pollinators by increasing their visibility.”
Tallest Begonia Discovered
In Tibet begonias grow wild and a group of researchers have discovered what they think is the largest yet.
Multiple impacts set back oxygen build-up in the Archaean
“The photochemical trick that underpins oxygenic photosynthesis seems only to have evolved once. “
Plant Focus: Grass
“They are economically the most important of all flowering plants because of their nutritious grains and soil-forming function”
Plant Focus: Roots
We rarely see the roots of plants, not the whole length of them anyway, because they’re doing their job for the plant mainly under the ground.
Plant focus: Daisy
Bellis perennis, the daisy, is a common European species of the family Asteraceae.
Plant Focus: Seeds
This is the time of year when many plants, big and small, are producing seed for next year.
Plant Focus: Nasturtium
A bonnie floo’er that you can add to salads – the Nasturtium is an easy to grow plant and a great one to get bairns interested in gardening.
Plant Focus: Ferns
Estimates of how many species of ferns there are ranges from 10,500 to 15,000.
