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Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI) launched its newly acquired SITES rating system, the most comprehensive program and toolkit for developing sustainable landscapes.Continue reading...

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A new article published in the journal Nature highlights the important role botanic gardens can play in relation to agriculture and future food securityContinue reading...

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BGCI membership offer - 25% off the price of Sarah Rutherford's new book 'Botanic Gardens'Continue reading...

Complete BGCI's membership survey to be included in a draw to win a copy of Sarah Rutherford's new book 'Botanic gardens'Continue reading...

This campaign will promote public awareness and involvement with local biodiversity. As part of the preparations, we are looking for professional from European botanic gardens to join working groups.Continue reading...

Missouri Botanical Garden was the generous host of the 9th International Congress on Education in Botanic Gardens. BGCI would like to thank the garden for all their hard work and welcome them as a patron member of BGCIContinue reading...

An exclusive limited edition book of award-winning botanical illustrations is due to be published by the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh in October. A special pre-publication offer is available until 15 June 2015.Continue reading...

The Ecological Restoration Alliance of Botanic Gardens (ERA) and the Royal Botanic Gardens Jordan hosted a symposium on 30th March 2015, highlighting the unique expertise botanic gardens offer to restoration, and making a call for increased collaboration to scale up restoration action.Continue...

BGCI’s Global Seed Conservation Challenge is a new initiative engaging and supporting botanic gardens to work outside the gardens walls to collect, bank and therefore conserve seed of threatened plant species towards Target 8 of the GSPC.Continue reading...

BGCI and Calouste Gulbenkian have commisioned a review of Communities in Nature. As part of this process we would like feedback from botanic gardens.Continue reading...

Last week saw the launch of Shanghai International Flower Show at Shanghai Botanical Garden. Based around the theme of ‘Delicate Horticulture, Beautiful Life’ the show seeks to bring innovative horticulture to urban dwellers.Continue reading...

BGCI, in partnership with the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, has developed a series of training modules for botanic garden staff on the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit SharingContinue reading...

The summer months for me have recently become a running cavalcade of smartphone pictures showing other people's dodgy garden issues. "What's this?" someone texts, with a pic of a gorgeous, shiny black-green beetle attached. "It was on my lavender." It's rosemary beetle, I reply, and you should...

Of all the gardens in Britain, Great Dixter in Sussex is the one I know best. Way back, I commissioned its owner, Christopher Lloyd, to write a gardening column and it was the beginning of a friendship that lasted for decades until his death. He died almost 10 years ago, but thanks to his...

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

A friend called and found me lying flat on my stomach underneath a rampant eruption of "Eddie's Jewel". It's a rose. A fantastic rose. And I planted three of them, not realising quite how wildly ambitious they were. Twelve-foot stems arching out under the weight of deep, rich-crimson flowers,...

Commercial breeders have worked very hard to ruin the texture and taste of strawberries. They have not been so successful with raspberries. But shop-bought ones remain expensive, even when the fruit is coming into season, as it is now. So on that score alone, raspberries are worth growing at...

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