Some gardeners like the riot of free-range color that comes from a meadow or a loosely planned perennial-flower garden. Others prefer their flowers lined up to measuring-tape precision. Neither way is ...

On a cool, gray day just after the sunny summer solstice, a group of friends set out to enjoy the annual Cowee Meadow flower show. An incidental treat was the continuous rattling of kingfishers flying ...

A late spring has brought meadow plants alive in May, but Britain’s natural grassland is continuing to disappear A late spring led to a big burst of wild flowers this month, but of all the native wild ...

More than 97% of meadows have been destroyed, but the fight is now on to restore them. They are essential for plants and insects – but is it wise to lose food-producing fields? On a perfect summer day ...

After two years of trials and research, the UK’s largest ever man-made wildflower meadows were sown this week to flower gold around the Olympic Stadium in 77 days’ time. The riverbank meadows of ...

Native plants are a living link between the earliest farmers and the present, according to Carmarthenshire farmer Ruth Watkins IN OCTOBER 2000 I bought a 70-acre farm in the second year of organic ...