Many of our garden plants are edible as well as ornamental – they’re edimentals. And as our flower beds start bursting into life here ...

Permaculture on the balcony? It can work! myHOMEBOOK spoke with organic balcony gardener Birgit Schattling about the ...

Sierra Leone’s present beauty and past pain are intimately bound. A journey from the West African country’s jungles to its ...

Heavy Pakistani shelling in the border district of Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir left nine people dead and 28 injured. The ...

Heavy Pakistani shelling in the border district of Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir left behind a trail of destruction on ...

In another place he would have been a scientist. … He never said there was a flock of Western grebes. He’d say, there was 97 ...

Finally, ground elder. This looks similar to mint leaves except they’re much bigger. It often forms thick carpets in shady spots. The Woodland Trust says: “It's a very versatile plant with a ...

Wait until they’ve hardened, then roast and grind as a coffee substitute. Finally, ground elder. This looks similar to mint leaves except they’re much bigger. It often forms thick carpets in shady ...

The soft, bright green leaves, that resemble those of cow parsley ... They reduce the acidity of rhubarb and of wild spring greens like ground elder. The white umbels of flowers are very ...

A poem by Annie Donnelly, age 16, Co Tipperary ...

American pokeweed, or Phytolacca americana, is one such plant, proving to be a tricksy, toxic and rather frustrating plant to ...