Typicaly tropical
	1:38pm Wed 6 Aug 08
	Val Bourne gets a taste for the exotic on a trip to Norfolk

	Down among the daisies
	3:26pm Fri 11 Jul 08
	If there is one plant designed to please the insects and the bees it is the traditional daisy with its dense middle of tiny flowers surrounded by showy ray petals. The hundreds of tiny flowers packed into the central disc produce nectar over a period of many days or weeks.

	Keep off the grass!
	11:28am Fri 30 May 08
	I t has started already. The first truly spring day and I heard the drone of several lawnmowers starting out on their quest to keep lawns, verges and paths a millimetre high. Within a few days the village mowing man was out and freshly mown grass lay everywhere. He will reappear every week until late October.

	Tulips from Amsterdam
	5:18pm Fri 28 Mar 08
	Val Bourne enjoys a spring extravaganza in the home of Holland’s world-famous flower

	Signs of spring
	4:31pm Wed 5 Mar 08
	Val Bourne reveals how to give your bulbs a warm welcome