I usually avoid anemones of every stripe: Anemone canadense, for instance, is a native that runs rampant through and around every other plant, while A. japonica becomes outrageously huge, requiring a ...

There’s an old saying in journalism: If a dog bites a man, that’s not news. Man bites dog: That’s news. So how about a sea anemone that chows down on a bird? Researchers have reported finding a giant ...

Research has shown how clown anemonefish control their growth to match the size of their anemone host. Research has shown how clown anemonefish control their growth to match the size of their anemone ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A CHOCOLATE craving put Anna Scott on the road to saving Nemo's home. The marine science student was researching coral one night at ...

Crabs are a diverse bunch of crustaceans. Some, like the pea crab, are parasites so small that they spend their lives hiding inside oyster shells. Others are huge. The largest of Japanese spider crabs ...

If you're a pom-pom boxer crab, you'll often need to fight to stay alive. When the bell rings, you'll need your anemone to pack some extra sting. Don't have one? Just steal a bit from a friend and ...

One thing I've yet to get right in my garden is the knack of joining up the dots and colouring in the background between various dominant, showy bulbs. Once spring begins, I can do generous patches of ...

This week’s plant of the week won Plant of the Year last week at the Chelsea Flower Show. Anemone ‘Wild Swan’ is a pure white with ­delicate violet banding on the underneath of the petals. It has a ...