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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...