As the warmer spring rolls around, gardeners might be gearing up to mow their lawns. But Timothy Greene at icanlawn.com has said that it might be a little too early for some lawns; and cutting them ...

Last weekend I had the happy experience of canoeing along the edge of a quaking bog. I discovered it was a quaking bog, or schwingmoor (a German word that translates into "swinging wetland"), because ...

At this time of the year (midsummer) the moors of Scotland are covered with cotton grass or bog cotton (Eriophorum) that produces large cotton-like balls of fibre. Have cotton grasses ever been ...