For any home gardeners who spend their weekends toiling in the backyard to keep their annuals alive and shrubbery in good form, the appeal of a botanical garden is obvious. But even for those ...

Invest in beaver dams, ponds and wild driveways to curb flooding, report urges - Natural flood measures can deliver £10 in ...

Natural flood prevention measures from beaver dams to "wild driveways" can deliver 10 times the value of every pound invested ...

Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust has been helping communities in Cheltenham and Gloucester, with measures including rain gardens with plants ... appropriate”. Ken Norgrove, chief executive of ...

The study highlights the "positive cost-benefit ratios" of investing in natural schemes that soak up water and slow its flow, including ponds, dams and hedge and tree planting as well as rain ...