If you want to grow more peonies from collected seeds, avoid the classic deadheading mistake of removing all the spent blooms, else you'll have no seedpods left to harvest. Instead, keep a few ...

Teagasc is confirming that shallow cultivation of post-harvest stubbles must take place within 10 days of baling.

Harvesting seeds for sowing the following year is a simple and fun activity that can save you a lot of money when it comes to expanding your plant collection. Watching your favourite flowers and ...

When ordering or planting seed, you need to know the seeding rate. The thousand grain weight (TGW) should be displayed on the ...

Siobhán Walsh shares all you need to know about sourcing seed, as well as the importance of paying plant variety royalties.

Harvesting seeds for sowing the following year is a simple and fun activity that can save you a lot of money when it comes to ...

Botrytis paeoniae forms black, seed-like resting structures (sclerotia) in the tissues it kills. These fall to the soil along with the dead tissues and remain there until the following spring. They ...

Shrubs rather than trees, these glamorous showstoppers produce a stunning display of magnificently large blooms in shades of yellow, pink and maroon in early summer. All they need is a sheltered spot ...

Fuchsia seeds don't remain viable for long, so harvesting them from your existing plants is the surest way to ensure that your seed stock is fresh. Fuchsia flower mainly in spring and summer, but ...

Theophrastus (circa 300 BC), repeated by Pliny, wrote that if a woodpecker saw one collecting peony seed during the day, it would peck out one’s eyes, and (like mandrake) the roots had to be pulled up ...

Theophrastus (circa 300 BC), repeated by Pliny, wrote that if a woodpecker saw one collecting peony seed during the day, it would peck out one’s eyes, and (like mandrake) the roots had to be pulled up ...