I was out walking in the UK in early June and spotted an extraordinary foxglove (pictured). The flowers that would normally make up the last 5 to 8 centimetres of the spike are fused into a single ...

Give a child a box of crayons and a piece of paper, and ask for a flower, and you very likely will get a picture of a daisy. Daisies also hold attraction for poets. Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet of ...