We bought the small plants at the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon "Hortlandia" sale. They had names like 'Cherrytrees' and 'Cockscomb' and and juniperfolia. Some had tiny blossoms, others looked like ...

Saxifrage is usually associated with spring and early summer but there is one - Saxifraga burseriana - that is so early it is almost winter-flowering. It is also one of the most beautiful of this huge ...

FOR those of us who are curious about which plants are related to which, an insight into the individual members of a plant family can be quite revealing. For instance, if I think about saxifrages at ...

The purple saxifrage is one of Wales' most hardy Arctic Alpine flowers, growing in extremely cold and inhospitable mountainous regions. In this clip from Iolo's Welsh Safari, Iolo Williams teams up ...

Barry Saxifrage is Canada’s National Observer’s resident chart geek and climate analyst. In his visual carbon columns, Saxifrage deconstructs the data behind global warming and Canada’s climate ...