Bare walls and fences can make a garden feel unfinished, but the right climbing plants add colour, texture, and even fragrance. Whether fast-growing or slow and steady, these climbers create natural ...

This fourth instalment in the series – which follows Bridget after the death of her husband – is far more moving.

Sometimes life just needs a little fairytale magic, and you can create your own in your yard by planting some of these dreamy ...

How do you achieve a fabulous display of wisteria on the front of a house or cascading down a pergola in late spring? The ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade ...

Nepal has sharply increased Everest climbing permit fees and introduced a slew of measures aimed at controlling garbage pollution and preventing accidents on the planet’s tallest peak. Under the ...

This oak tree has stood in this very spot since long before he or I walked the Earth. It is early winter when MacKenzie, an atmospheric scientist and director of Birmingham University Institute ...

Climbing the highest peaks in the world, those exceeding 8,000 meters, requires changes to one’s physiology. Beyond an impressive climbing resume and peak physical conditioning, actual bodily ...

nostalgia pic. Ludlow. Picture shows the co-founders of the Friary Hall Youth Club in Ludlow in 1964, pictured at the time. On the left is Francis Lochbaum and on the right is John Clegg.

April in Rome brings a breathtaking transformation as wisteria blooms paint the city in shades of purple. Known as glicine in Italian, wisteria’s fragrant clusters create a stunning visual display ...

The 21-year-old Irish woman who died while rock climbing in Spain at the weekend has been named locally as Eve McCarthy from Shankill in Dublin. She was a final year student of physiology at ...

The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a ... lending themselves to traditional roped rock climbing, while others are lower-angled ‘piles’ that you can simply scramble ...