A s the vibrant colors of autumn begin to paint our gardens, it's the perfect time to focus on the unseen heroes that make our plants thrive: beneficial soil microbes. These tiny organisms ...

They turn chocolate-brown in late autumn and rustle ... on pharmacy shelves today. Wild senna is a hardy, low-maintenance, beautiful addition to any home garden, benefits a variety of wildlife ...

Autumn is the best time to learn from your ... It was the beginning of their nearly wild garden, and offered a place for an introduction to beekeeping. “It was an old lawn that just went wild ...

Some are planted in gardens. But look, here are plants growing wild in a footpath ... If you see honeysuckle, it will be summer. And in the autumn ivy produces flowers. You could ask other ...

Autumn is officially here and temperatures ... planting or encourage natural predators like ladybugs. Leave a wild patch in your garden Leave one section of your garden to grow into a wild patch ...

Hedgehogs control garden pests like caterpillars ... Kirk Rothwell, from Peckish, said: "Autumn brings with it shorter daylight hours and dropping temperatures, which means wild birds need ...

These gardens are not rigidly controlled plots ... heritage and scientific inquiry can reinforce each other. Every autumn, wild rice festivals bring together people from all walks of life to ...

Centaurea was once a wheatfield pest, but now its perennial cousin is in fashion for beds and wild gardens where its unusual dark blue blooms can catch the eye well into autumn. This is a flower ...

As autumn slowly but surely ... up images of productive kitchen gardens and allotments, of home-grown apples, plums and pears ripening on the trees and wild blackberries swelling in the hedgerows.