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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 them garden for all their hard work and welcome them as a patron member of BGCIContinue reading...

Me and the Chelsea Flower Show do have the occasional misunderstanding. Well, possibly more of a series of episodes of traumatic amnesia. I look back, you see, at all those many years of clearly differentiated individuals presenting their work with great flair and panache, yet in my brain...

Courgettes, as all gardeners find, have a frightening capacity to turn into marrows if you go away at the wrong time. Some gardeners love marrows – especially those who grow them to show at gatherings where monster veg have heroic status. There is always a place for an overgrown...

Spring is the ideal time to begin sowing corn - here are some tips on ensuring you grow yours at top qualityContinue 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 thievery has begun again. I stepped out to walk to school on Tuesday, and by the time I came back 15 minutes later, three of my four tomato plants (which had been acclimatising themselves to outdoor life in the gentle shelter of the doorstep) had been pinched. Nicked, I tell you. In broad...

The simple way to manage pots is to pack each one full of whatever you fancy – tulips, wallflowers, lilies, agapanthus, petunias – and then shunt the pots round in different combinations, depending on what is in flower. You might group pots of wallflowers with a pot of the fabulous scented...

These vegetables aren't everyone's favourite, but with the right variety and these growing tips, you'll be a lifetime convertContinue reading...

How much food can you grow in four weeks? That's what I've been trying to find out, because tomorrow morning, my friend Claire is going to go to work on an egg. Just an egg, and not much else, as it turns out, because she has nobly signed up for the £1 a Day Live Below the Line challenge, a...

The messy ruff of dead growth around Deschampsia cespitosa 'Bronzeschleier' (it's a grass – a favourite among garden designers) has annoyed me all winter, but when I leaned forward recently to tug it away, the whole thing came away in my hand. "Result," I thought joyfully and lobbed the entire...

Pennard Plants, near Shepton Mallet in Somerset, has the easy, slightly ramshackle air of the best kind of allotment sites. The nursery, co-owned by Chris Smith and Mike Milligan sits inside the tall, red-brick walls of the kitchen garden that once belonged to Pennard House, just down the...

Courgette is a must grow garden vegetable with a delicious crop and sunny flowerContinue reading...

Smoothies are easy to make and easy to grow in a pretty looking container perfect for a balcony or patioContinue reading...

The ingredients for this summer dish are irresistable to pollinators with strawberry and cucamelon plantsContinue reading...

Grow your own ingredients for delicious meals using just a few carefully planted pots, which are fantastic for gardeners short on spaceContinue reading...

Our little bunch of islands – sitting in an odd blast of the Gulf Stream that comes to us straight after bouncing off Florida – possess top-notch conditions for gardeners. And we hear a lot about the effects – the early narcissi of the Scillies; the northern palm trees of subtropical gardens...

There's a window ledge on the left, just as you come in the door of our house, and it's where we have a kind of horticultural equivalent of the eternal flame. All through the dark months from November to just about now, I try to keep on the window sill a succession of plants in pots,...

Use left over papaya seeds and grow your own at homeContinue 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...