Rhubarb is now coming into its best in the garden. This easy to grow plant can be harvested and used in puddings and savouries.
Plant Focus: Rhubarb
The Fascination of Plants
On Tuesday 18th May, join plant enthusiasts all around the world and take part in the first-ever virtual Fascination of Plants Day.
Why Common is Crucial ?
“Generalist” plants and pollinators play a crucial role in maintaining biodiversity and may also serve as buffers against some impacts of climate change
Plant focus: Bluebell
As the year moves on and into May, bluebells come into their full magnificence.
The Rise of the Flowers
The asteroid impact that ended the reign of dinosaurs 66 million years ago also caused 45% of plants in what is now Colombia to go extinct, and it made way for the reign of flowering plants in modern tropical rainforests.
Plant Focus: Gorse
Gorse is important for invertebrates.
Plant Focus: Marsh Marigold
It is a widespread flower of ponds, marshes, damp meadows, ditches and wet woodland and is a conspicuous spring flower.
Plant Focus: Butterbur
What to look for when out walking.
Dancing Roots
New time-lapse videos capture something that’s too slow for our eyes to see
How flowering plants may have regulated atmospheric oxygen
“Ultimately, the source of free oxygen in the Earth System is photosynthesis, but that is the result of a chemical balance in the biosphere and hydrosphere that operates at the surface and just beneath it in sediments. “
