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There are a number of great BGEN training and networking events coming up this September exploring CPD programmes, volunteer management and also outdoor learning opportunities.Continue reading...

Gardeners are up in arms after Dimmock suggests standard size of a plot could be quartered to allow more people the chance to get involvedContinue reading...

Plant experts met last month in Paris to assess international efforts to implement the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) and how effective it is proving in achieving its targets under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).Continue reading...

From dangerous attention- seeker to possessor of immaculate tastes, through to couldn't care less what anyone else thinks: what is your front garden saying about you? And is it what you meant? One person plants a single row of identical pale blush roses and thinks it looks tremendous....

I've just got back from Ireland where I was one of the speakers at the Garden Festival in Carlow. It runs every year from late July to early August, but Carlow is new territory for me and I did not know either of the gardens I went to. The first was Sheila Reeves-Smyth's place at Hardymount in...

There are a number of great BGEN training and networking events coming up this September exploring CPD programmes, volunteer management and also outdoor learning opportunities.Continue reading...

Plant experts met last month in Paris to assess international efforts to implement the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) and how effective it is proving in achieving its targets under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).Continue reading...

I hate August. Or rather, I hate August in the garden. I think it's because for so long I was somewhere else and didn't have to face it. When I was a child, we spent the whole summer in what would now be called a "shepherd's hut", in a cornfield that ran up to the edge of a cliff in...

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Gardening is a confusing business. For example, there's that classic puzzled beginner's face which arises when, after being purchased in full glorious bloom, some flowers promptly shut up shop until the following June. "What is this enormous swizz?" the beginner gardener asks. And rightly...

You often see shaggy old bay trees growing in the gardens of cottages and farmhouses in the West Country. Their chief purpose was not to flavour a stew but to protect the place against witches, which is why you find them planted so close to the houses. We've been lucky to have inherited old...

The Conclusions and resolutions from EuroGard VII were presented by Pierre-André Loiseau, Director of the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève. Pierre-André provided a personal synthesis of the plenary talks and then presented the formal conclusions and resolutions.Continue...

Klorane Institute and Pierre Fabre Argentina of the French pharmaceutical and dermo-cosmetics giant Pierre Fabre sign a new partnership agreement with BGCI and Carlos Thays Botanic Garden, Buenos Aires to enhance the conservation of Argentina’s extraordinary native medicinal flora.Continue...

They might just be the UK's next big berry, so get your lowdown on how to grow the saskatoon earlyContinue reading...

Smithsonian, U.S. Botanic Garden and U.S. National Arboretum Partner To Preserve Samples of Earth’s PlantsContinue reading...

BGCI is calling for nominations for two awards sponsored by the Marsh Christian Trust. The awards are for international plant conservation and education in botanic gardensContinue reading...

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