WE may well be seeing lower slug and snail numbers this summer thanks to colder weather in winter and the recent dry spells.

Like clueless kids in the class, these groups of flowers didn’t quite move past the wonder of kindergarten and their one true goal in life is to get to the end of the rainbow and find a pot of gold.

The last of the four is Dermatitis which can create a skin rash or irritation but can be solved by quickly washing the affected area. The vibrant colourful flower can be deadly to your pet with just a ...

Unlike eucalyptus and dogwood, rhododendron grows "vast clusters" of white, yellow, purple, and crimson flowers. Though the shrub has a growing potential of 20ft tall, most grow to head-height and ...

Its cousin, the flame azalea, appears to glow in vibrant shades of yellow and orange and can be seen blooming alongside Split and Sphinx Rocks later this month. The rosebay rhododendron with its ...

May brings a brilliant spread of wildflowers in the Pacific Northwest: pink coast rhododendrons (which happen to be Washington’s state flower), avalanche lilies and yellow arrowleaf balsamroot ...

Princess Anne is one of the few dwarf rhododendron varieties that produces yellow-green blooms. Its foliage turns bronze in the fall and winter. Dwarf rhododendrons reach 1 to 3 feet tall.

‘Larger gardens can benefit from evergreen rhododendrons such as 'Horizon Monarch', which produces large, showy yellow blooms tinged with pink.’ Whether you're looking for a cherry blossom tree for a ...

Yellow mottling along the leaf margins may ... your “less than perfection” gardening techniques. Otherwise, rhododendrons require very little pruning unless branches are dead or injured.

Iris ‘Katharine Hodgkin’ has pale blue, striped spoon-shaped petals with a yellow background flecked ... of the past season more than evergreen rhododendrons. This reader’s question ...

These high-altitude trees paint the Himalayan slopes in vibrant shades of red and pink during spring. The forests of Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, and the Valley of Flowers in Uttarakhand offer ...

The scent of Rhododendron luteum, too, is worth a long journey to inhale: the yellow species is for many people the best of all azaleas. The house faces more-or-less south and its garden was a largely ...