I have just planted out half a dozen healthy specimens of Aquilegia vulgaris ‘Ruby Port’ into our Jewel Garden. These have, as the name suggests, a rich plum-coloured flower, multi-petalled with ...

The aquilegia has the quaint common name of grannies’ bonnet, a reference to its bonnet shaped flowers, and like most of the cottage garden flowers has an old-world charm that has been much loved and ...

THE world’s most varied collection of the flower aquilegia grows in Carrie Thomas’ back garden. THE world’s most varied collection of the flower aquilegia grows in Carrie Thomas’ back garden. The ...

The MADS-box genes form a large family of pan-eukaryotic transcription factors that are involved in various aspects of plant growth and development, particularly reproduction. To understand the extent ...