1. The Queen’s primrose wreath bore a note saying “his favourite flower” but it has never been clear whether she meant Disraeli’s favourite flower or her late husband Prince Albert’s. 2. Every year on ...

If you've got a February birthday or know someone born in this winter month, you have your pick of some beautiful birth flowers (see what we did there?). From the gorgeous iris to the pretty primrose, ...

JUST AS the first pale primrose flowers are showing in hedgerows and woodlands, the garden primroses and their showy cousins, the polyanthus, are sparkling in gardens. Some of these are very old forms ...