People who lack the gardening bug often regard flowers like fashion models: pretty but boring. Jens Petersen, the man who gave us the groundbreaking photographs of fungi in “The Kingdom of Fungi”, ...

Lords-and-Ladies is a widespread and common native wild plant that grows best in base-rich soils in shady woods and hedgerows. It has wrinkly, arrow-shaped leaves and sports a highly unconventional ...

For one group of plants, having brightly coloured flowers isn’t enough to guarantee being pollinated. When birds rip bits out of the flowers to eat them, special bellow-like organs blast pollen onto ...