“Why – hollyhocks,” he murmurs, and they smile. Another poet who celebrated the planting of seed was Robert Frost, himself a practicing farmer. He wrote this sonnet at seed planting time. You come to ...

It’s officially spring, which means only one thing: tulip mania. Not necessarily the speculative bubble which destroyed the Dutch economy in the 17th century – in which investors in the burgeoning ...

How do we act better? It’s these questions and more that led us to launch a readers’ retreat we are hosting at the Hollyhock Leadership Learning Centre on Cortes Island from May 21 to 25.

More than 28 species of draught-resistant annual and perennial plants have been planted on a surface of 1,000 sqm, among them marigolds, soapworts, flax, dame's rocket, wallflowers, hollyhocks ...