Restoring wild flower meadows

Kew Gardens has launched a new initiative to help protect and restore wild flower meadows in the UK.

The UK Native Seed Hub, part of Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank project, will provide conservation groups across the country with seeds for native wild flower species and the advice on how to manage natural meadows in their areas. (more…)

Edinburgh's Amorphophallus titanum aka "Corpse flower"

Staff at Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden have been left disappointed (or should that be relieved?) after the smelliest plant in the world failed to come into flower as had been anticipated.

Botanists had predicted that the garden’s star attraction, a giant Amorphophallus titanum or “Corpse flower”, would finally bloom after eight years developing in their hothouse, but sadly it wasn’t to be this season. (more…)