Alpine plants are the jewels of the plant world. Beautiful but small, these plants grow best in a habitat that most resembles their native one. Most are at home nestled between rocky crags. No rocky ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At Denver Botanic Gardens, Wildflower Treasures is neither as splashy as the water-lily pond nor as refined as the Japanese garden. The sun-soaked hardscape ...

Miniature worlds — snow globes or Lego villages — wield a special kind of magic. They lure you into a mesmerizing universe where everything feels right and where you, the all-powerful creator, get to ...

THERE’S NO BETTER time to create your own tiny, perfect world than when the real world feels like it’s out of control. Unsurprisingly, alpine troughs are having a moment. Designed to look like ...

With all the recent heat, let's imagine something cool. How about a stroll in the Alps? Those rocky slopes below the snowline will still be carpeted with small but intensely pretty plants. Down in the ...

You don't have to move mountains to create a stunning rockery, says Monty Don Sometimes, the weather shows itself to have a sense of humour. As I sit down at my desk to write about alpine plants, the ...