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Lit-up flowers on a lake at Cambridge Botanic Garden

Garden lights aim to show trees in a 'different way'

Prof Beverley Glover says a university's famous garden aims to educate and provide a festive show.

A computer screen showing plant samples at Kew Gardens

Kew Gardens digitising eight million plant samples

Works to digitise and preserve plant samples are about three quarters complete.

Clusters of bell heather flowers, which are pink and bell-shaped.

Delicate plant could return to ancient woodland

Root cuttings of bell heather will be carefully brought to Epping Forest.

A lego scarecrow with a yellow head and blue body

Bloom award for West Sussex town

Judges were impressed by the scarecrows and overall appearance of Haywards Heath.

A woman in a blue raincoat and grey baseball cap smells the leaves of a sweet woodruff plant

'London is a forager's paradise, it's very diverse'

Foraging expert John Rensten says many British wild plants are "having a go at growing" in London.

Bright blue and black southern damselfly Coenagrion mercuriale perched on green plant stem

Peatland restoration helps rare species

Leaky dams are being built at Stoborough Heath and Salterns Copse to restore peatland habitats.

Twelve Cormac workers standing in a grassy and wooded area

Cornwall Council handed £1m to fund edible plants

Bosses say people should expect to see more hedgerows they can forage from on council-owned land.

The deadly plants hiding in your garden

The Poison Garden at the Alnwick Garden has around 100 toxic, intoxicating, and narcotic plants.

Wide shot of the pond in front of Kew's Palm House as the sun rises

Kew tour gives window into Palm House plants' past

Pollinators of the Palm House tells the story of species from the most threatened environments.