Spring has sprung and gardeners are digging in. Got questions as you carry on? Get answers from Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU ...

Driving around the region right now, it is easy to find lots of beautiful yellow flowers blooming in fields and pastures. While these flowers look beautiful, they represent an infestation that has ...

I have a love-hate relationship with buttercups. In wet, shady parts of the garden, I fight an endless battle with Ranunculus repens, aptly named after Rana the frog, our friend from cool and damp ...

Crook, County Durham: It’s not just the creeping buttercup that demands attention from me and my spade This will hurt tomorrow morning, warns my ageing back. But it’s a year since the vegetable patch ...

My abiding memory of last year’s Chelsea is of daisies and buttercups and frothy cow parsley — a bucolic dream, but the reality is that these delicate-looking wild flowers are bullies, coiled ready to ...

But that could be about to change if one of the UK's largest conservation charities gets its way. In an attempt to encourage youngsters to take more of an interest in the natural world, Plantlife UK ...

I love my garden (not that you will be surprised to hear that) but I also love my patch of wilderness and I reckon every garden should have one. Now by “wilderness” I do not mean an overgrown area of ...