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The new board of directors was formed at a two day event in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, in the Miguel Lillo Foundation’s Botanical Garden, in NovemberContinue reading...

The deadline for submitting abstracts for the 7th European Botanic Gardens Congress - EuroGard VII is 16 January, 2015Continue reading...

Retrenchment. It's not a word I've ever used before. Retrenching isn't my thing, especially in the garden where, ever since I started, onwards and upwards has been the way. Here, especially, it's upwards, since there is a 20-metre drop from the top of the garden to the bottom. Not a sheer...

'It is the spirit of the age," wrote Gore Vidal, "to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true." So, to fill the short interval before the next pub quiz lurches into your sights, here is a quiverful of facts, loosely attached to...

More than a million homeowners in the UK paved over part of their garden last year, dramatically increasing the risk of flooding in their neighbourhood, a survey has found.Continue reading...

You don't have to go on a course to learn how to do Christmas decorations. Nor do you have to spend a lot of money. But it is useful to have a garden that you can raid for twigs and greenery and also a drawer where through the year you stash away odd bits of crinkly ribbon, special candles,...

Celebrating our achievements from the year, with thanks to our member gardens and supporters.Continue reading...

As part of the ongoing research project to assess the conservation status of the world’s tree species, the latest Red List report on the montane tree species of the tropical Andes by Natalia Tejedor Garavito (Bournemouth University) in collaboration with BGCI has been published.Continue reading...

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Professor Stephen Blackmore, Chairman of BGCI, is delighted to announce that Dr Paul Smith has been appointed as the next Secretary General of BGCI and will take up the post in February 2015.Continue reading...

Gardening used to be what you did if you couldn't do anything else I became an apprentice gardener in 1964 and I used to say to people that I was in horticulture, as it sounded better. So it's been interesting to watch the situation change through the 1970s and 1980s, to a point in the late...

It is fantasy time again. The dispiriting reality of winter's gales and rain fosters extravagant dreams. Mine presently centre round a conservatory, a leafy, scented, luxurious bolt-hole that I could escape into as the wind howls down the chimneys of the house and the rain beats down the last...

One of the world's major growers of Brussels sprouts is asking readers to help christen a new varietyContinue reading...

Look, I don't want to sound churlish, but I don't automatically love Christmas lights. You can't just stick 'em up and expect me to automatically drop my jaw and go "Wow" at them. So, when I set off in December 2013 to Kew, for the opening of its very first Winter Wonderland, I wasn't feeling...

'Festive Cheer! Book your Christmas meal now!" screeches the banner on a particularly unattractive roadhouse I pass on our route to the motorway. It went up in August. I refuse to think about Christmas until December. Yes – that does mean a bit of a scrabble to sort out presents, but here's...

We are pleased to announce the opening of the Congress website and the launch of the call for papers for the European Botanic Gardens Congress, EuroGard VII. The Congress will be held in Paris from July 6-10, 2015 at the National Natural History Museum.Continue reading...

Use flavours and fruit from the garden to bring extra zest to festive desserts, cold meat and cheese this ChristmasContinue reading...

Experts from the Royal Horticultural Society share tips on how to choose and care for orchidsContinue reading...

BGCI is taking part in the 2014 Big Give Christmas Challenge. We are raising funds to support sustainable use of African medicinal trees facing extinction in the wild. The challenge runs over Thursday 4th, Friday 5th and Saturday 6th December - a chance to double your donations to...

An exotic plant species previously unknown to science has been discovered growing in a hothouse in London’s famous Kew Gardens.Continue reading...