Sometimes a flower does more than just add beauty to your garden. Pyrethrum daisies not only look beautiful when massed together, but also help keep bugs away from your plants. Pyrethrum daisies are a ...

JERRY COLEBY-WILLIAMS: When it comes to dealing with problem pests in the garden, pyrethrum is a really good tool. Natural pyrethrum comes from flowers - flowers are the pyrethrum plant which is ...

Double flowers are the holy grail for plant breeders – these frilly concoctions last much longer than single-flowered plants and for that reason they make good garden plants. Doubles contain extra ...

Cyrus Nderitu from Kieni, Nyeri county, vividly remembers his childhood in the 1990s when pyrethrum farming was part of their daily life. “When we weren’t in school, my younger sister and I would ...