Choose plants with your children from the 'cactus' section at your local garden centre. Take care with the thorns and prickles; some are extremely sharp! Others are dangerous because they enter ...

By adjusting temperatures and limiting the amount of light your Christmas cactus receives, you can encourage them to bloom.

It’s all about creating the right environment when it comes to this almost unkillable houseplant and making it bloom. And ...

Ricky shows us how to make one of our very own. You've all heard about family trees, but we bet you've never seen a family cactus tree photo frame! BBC Homepage ...

Herders from Laikipia County have been converting cactus into biofuel. The World Vision organisation is has taken the mandate to train eight women groups in Laikipia County on how to make the fuel.

or garden from a wheelchair. The wooden sides can be a hiding place for slugs and woodlice so be vigilant. Expert advice through the seasons so you know what to do and when. £49 a year or £4.99 a ...

I traveled to Fort Worth last weekend for the annual Texas Association of Cactus and Succulent Societies (TACSS) fall seminar ...

Building a log pile can boost your local biodiversity by giving a home and shelter to some of the smaller inhabitants of your garden. They are easy to assemble and require little ... Over time, as the ...

The stacking-type composters are convenient and make turning the pile easy ... you could simply bury kitchen scraps in the garden and they will break down within a week or two.

Filling your garden with fluttering insects will make your flowerbeds beautiful and support biodiversity at the same time. Museum ecologist Larissa Cooper explains how to do it. Butterflies are a ...