Ken Thompson

Chlorinated hydrocarbons are widely used as solvents and as raw materials for the synthesis of all kinds of useful products, such as cleaning agents and pesticides.

Even before they do any climbing, twining stems revolve and, once they hit a support, this revolving leads naturally to twining in whichever direction they had previously been revolving.

Let’s assume you would like your garden to have a “tropical” look.

I just tried answering a few practice UK citizenship tests.

When the screenwriter William Goldman said “nobody knows anything”, he was talking about the inability of anyone in Hollywood to predict what would turn out to be the next blockbuster.

A book I really enjoyed last year was one of the latest in Collins’s New Naturalist series:

A tea bag doesn’t look like much, does it?

Around this time of year, there’s always a proliferation of articles about frankincense, myrrh, holly etc.

Sick of finding deer in your daylilies? Foxes in your flower beds? Perhaps it’s time we reintroduced a top predator to keep them in check

Sugar has been getting a lot of bad press recently, but it’s surprisingly useful – in the garden

Is growing your own fruit and vegetables the best way to lower your carbon footprint?

Mail-order bees may not offer the benefits for the environment or for pollination in your garden you expect.

Botanical evidence is increasingly being used by police to analyse crimes, often to link suspects to murders.

Why are gardeners portrayed as dull in fiction and film, when we grapple with life and death?

DNA technology is transforming the way we classify flora, says Ken Thompson.