I was back at Groundswell again this year. It’s unrecognisable from the first one in its scale and the breadth of stands and ...

Matt England, estate manager at the Fring Estate in Norfolk, has been exploring the potential of clover living mulches, ...

Emu or ostrich can't match the Moa with its extinction found to have caused "irreplaceable loss of ecological function in New Zealand's ecosystems", researchers say. It had been suggested some ...

There are plants galore to drool over at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, from classic roses to exotic rarities that are becoming more viable to grow in the changing climate. To get the most out of ...

You’ll spot the unusual curving coral-red flower spikes of Hesperaloe parviflora straight away on the outer ‘dune’ of his garden, emerging from their spiky understoreys. This is a surprisingly hardy ...

In a new study conducted by an international team of researchers, small trees and shrubs in forest understoreys – the layer of vegetation beneath the forest canopy – were found to play a much ...

Habitat: Open forests and woodlands with old trees containing sufficiently large hollows for nesting, and sheltered gullies in forests with dense understoreys. The powerful owl is an adept nocturnal ...

These effects may persist for a considerable time (up to 20 years) in forests containing rough-barked trees and shrubby understoreys." ...

Is it time the government rethinks its prescribed burning practices? New research says it’s making forests more flammable, not less, but the state stands firm.

MISTING the air around houseplants such as maidenhair ferns and pitcher plants has long been seen as essential to protect these species, which evolved in steamy rainforest understoreys, from the ...

Even worse, because they eat palatable tree species before those plants have a chance to grow, empty forest understoreys are endangering future forests. “We need New Zealand’s native forests.