The week that included the equinox brought a run of more nice weather, calling me out to note the signs of what seems to be an unusually early spring. As usually happens in Juneau, the development of ...

Saxifrage is usually associated with spring and early summer but there is one - Saxifraga burseriana - that is so early it is almost winter-flowering. It is also one of the most beautiful of this huge ...

The purple saxifrage is one of Wales' most hardy Arctic Alpine flowers, growing in extremely cold and inhospitable mountainous regions. In this clip from Iolo's Welsh Safari, Iolo Williams teams up ...

Seeing a flower in the grocery store or at a greenhouse isn’t quite the same as seeing it on a flower farm. So seeing a rare flower named after oneself in its natural habitat is a once-in-a-lifetime ...

FOR those of us who are curious about which plants are related to which, an insight into the individual members of a plant family can be quite revealing. For instance, if I think about saxifrages at ...

When you walk up the watershed trail in Nolde Forest along Punches Run, beyond where the hepatica I wrote about last week grows, you are traveling on what was a part of the Noldes’ driveway. The ...

A rare golden jewel of bogs and marshland, the delicate and bright yellow flower is a precious gem although one which few might ever spot. Now fresh hope for the future of Scotland’s tiny population ...

In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Last updated: 22 February 2011 The purple saxifrage is one of Wales' ...