Ms Woodall's husband found the strange fungi growing out of a "gooey, mucus-y pod type thing" sticking out of the soil under their lemongrass yesterday. "We put it on the end of a stick because we ...

Polly wants a cracker Native to Southeast Asia, this member of the Balsam family bears an uncanny resemblance to a parrot in flight. Not one for the garden at home as the Parrot Flower (Impatiens ...

The Macy’s Flower Show has landed — and it’s out of this world. Launching Sunday is the department store’s 70th annual botanical bonanza. And this year, the place is all about space, as some 2 million ...

Visitors to Britain's most famous gardening event, the Chelsea Flower Show, will be confronted with an unusual display this year: a garden they will be warned not to plant. Visitors to Britain's most ...

Spring has sprung, flowers are blooming and Zoë Devlin has produced a new flower book. Titled 'The Wildflowers of Ireland: A Field Guide' the recently published book has a very attractively yet very ...

Winter Heliotrope is an invasive alien. It is an alien in the sense that it is not native to Ireland; it is a blow-in from central Mediterranean climes especially southern Italy, Sicily, Sardinia and ...

Flowers in bloom are one of the great sights in nature - but how about when they're under the microscope? These breathtaking images have been created using a colour scanning electron microscope (SEM) ...