There are a few perennial plants that, despite having a quiet demeanour, stand out from the crowd. Even gardeners whose predilection is for drama cannot help but succumb to their quiet charm.

Thalictrum has to be one of the most beautiful garden plants. It's lacy, elegant foliage precedes the dainty cumulonimbus clouds of flowers that grow in great froths and swathes. Knowing how to grow ...

I fall in love with plants all the time, but some first encounters are real coups de foudre. Diaphanous plants have an unerring allure for me, and one such is Thalictrum delavayi, whose clouds of tiny ...

Call me politically correct but I don’t much like the word “sterile”, a term that feels laden with judgment when it’s used to refer to people, landscapes or even our inner lives. To describe someone ...