Plant of the Week
*Ballantinia pumilio*
What’s in a name?
Plant of the Week
*Adenophora triphylla*
A plant with an unusual number of names.
Plant of the Week
*Caladenia crebra*
An orchid that offers a wasp everything and delivers nothing.
Plant of the Week
*Epilobium latifolium*
The national flower of Greenland.
Plant of the Week
Monotropa uniflora
Something strange in your neighbourhood? Who you gonna call? Skip the Ghostbusters and try a botanist.
Plant of the Week
Nelumbo nucifera
A flower that holds itself at blood heat on a cold day, and seeds that can wait a thousand years for the right one.
Plant of the Week
Melampyrum cristatum
Crested cow-wheat can flourish for years after a verge is cut. Or it can be wiped out by the same machine, if the cut comes a month too late.
Plant of the Week
Nesiota elliptica
The Saint Helena olive went extinct in 2003 due to human activity.
Plant of the Week
Equisetum arvense
The common horsetail is one of the surviving representatives of a group of plants that once dominated the forests of the past.
Plant of the Week
Lemna minor
One gardener's pond scum is a spaceflight crop, a biofuel and a pollution sponge, all folded into a plant smaller than your fingernail.
Plant of the Week
Sphagnum palustre
Our first moss for Plant of the Week: the blunt-leaved bog moss.
Plant of the Week
Cylindropuntia imbricata
The Tree Cholla Cactus produces beautiful other-worldly gardens