Featured Stories
Grow your own edible snails
Perhaps the last thing a gardener needs is more snails, but these culinary delights are setting the latest… [more]
June Crisfield Chapman exhibition at Bowes
June Crisfield Chapman, known for her engravings of plants in The Countryman magazine, will be the focus… [more]
The sap is rising!
As we enter the middle of January, the days are already notably lengthening and brighter.The mild.… [more]
Free Trees for Schools to Celebrate Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
Between 10th January and 29th February 2012, schools registered to the RHS Campaign for School Gardening… [more]
RHS announces £27m investment programme
A record £27m is to be raised by The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) to fund a five year investment… [more]
NEWS & FEATURES

RHS announces 2012 Britain in Bloom finalists
January 20, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
The Royal Horticultural Society has selected 73 finalists from over 1,000 entries to take part in the 2012 RHS Britain in Bloom UK Finals.

The first beetle free lily
January 14, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
Lily beetles are a huge problem for growers of Oriental and Asiatic lilies but Thompson & Morgan’s new Lily “Defender” could be about to bring to colour back to our borders.

Free Trees for Schools to Celebrate Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
January 11, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has joined forces with online nursery Trees & Hedging to offer 2,000 schools five free trees each, in celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
NEWS IN BRIEF
RHS issue fruit crop warning
The lack of a cold winter could damage fruit yields later in the year, warn The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS).
January at Kew – Talk by Highgrove Head Gardener
Amongst the events happening at Kew this January will be a talk by Debs Goodenough, Head Garderner at Highgrove.
High rise greenhouses proposed
Professor Dickson Despommier worked with his students at Columbia University to come up with an innovative way to make cities more sustainable.

Prepare the garden ahead of winter frost
Gardeners throughout the country lost countless numbers of plants due to frost last winter so take a moment this weekend to prepare ahead of the cold and ice.
REVIEWS

Hanging basket anti-theft clamp
July 13, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment
It is often said that the simple solutions are often the most effective and this hanging basket clamp is very simple.In essence the Baskit Geni is a plastic and metal clamp that secures the … [Read More...]
GARDENER’S DIARY

The sap is rising!
As we enter the middle of January, the days are already notably lengthening and brighter.The mild. wet winter is encouraging all growing things into bud early and we have been sent a picture from Gary in Lancaster whose daffodils started to bloom on new year's day.Perhaps this could be … [Read More...]





