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Polski Sklep is a sign we've got used to around our neighbourhood. The Polish shops induce a fierce curiosity in me: are other people’s national biscuits, yoghurt or cheese a massive improvement on our own?Continue reading...

Oxford University Press announces the publication of The Flora of North America North of Mexico; Volume 28: Bryophyta, Part 2. This volume will be available in September 2014 and includes treatments prepared by 44 authors covering 698 species in 206 genera classified in 48 families.Continue...

"Caucasus. Plant Biodiversity between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea" is this year’s special exhibition in Berlin’s Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum.Continue reading...

Grow Wild is a four year “mass participation programme” , providing funding to gardens and gardening groups and sharing native plant seeds to help community togetherness and inventiveness flourish, whilst benefitting bug biodiversity.Continue reading...

My garden stinks. I should have realised as soon as I placed the bags of "well-composted" manure in the car at the garden centre that this lofty claim didn't really ring true. "Mum, mum!" came the pathetic cries for help from the back seat. "This is the worst smell that there has ever, ever...

The exhibition on William Kent, Designing Georgian Britain, closes tomorrow at the V&A museum in London. But to understand the genius of the man, you need to spend a day in one of his gardens (preferably Rousham), not trapped among his architectural drawings. And Rousham is open every day....

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I killed the olive tree. I moved its pot one frustrating day over the winter, when I knew that its roots had dug into the patio looking for water, and a big handful of suspiciously significant-looking growth came away in handfuls. And then it was dead. Yep, actual death.Continue...

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Imagine leaving a steak for a week in a plastic bag, somewhere nice and warm to get it really whiffy, and then charging people to sniff it. That has been the basic commercial premise at Nantes' Jardin des Plantes this week, where tourists are being diverted from the other pleasures of this...

Last week BGCI took at trip to Missouri Botanical Garden to meet the hosts of the the 9th Congress on Education in Botanic Gardens. Not only was there meetings and plannings but there was even time to get to know the garden.Continue reading...

What's the very best thing about being a baby born in June? Well, you could plump for looking forward to a lifetime of outdoor birthday parties. Sweet little photos of yourself at picnics on sunny days. But I'd argue that the number-one advantage for the summer newborn is getting to take your...

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Figs are great survivors, hanging on in old gardens long after the lawns and walls on which they were displayed have disappeared. There was one in our old place, where, after 18 months of hacking, we discovered we had a walled garden. It took about 15 years to get that plot back into full...

Sow your own Oriental greens like pak choi and Chinese cabbage and you will be stir-frying in no time, says Noel KingsburyContinue reading...

The Ecological Restoration Alliance of Botanic Gardens (ERA) is pleased to share the agenda for the upcoming public symposium at Missouri Botanical Garden.Continue reading...

The first time I met Mark Diacono, he'd just taken delivery of a load of Italian olive trees. Which was surprising, because he lives in Devon. But there you go, he's just that kind of a guy. Oh yes, horticulturally speaking, he'll tell you all about climate change, and his ambitions to farm in...

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For plant breeders, scent in flowers is an irritation. They know we like it, but it can't be manipulated as easily as other characteristics of a flower. One of them explained to me how scent genes are often locked in with other traits such as colour or size. While the breeders are waving their...

Forget vast herbaceous borders, ornate rock gardens and secluded shrubberies, a new “alternative” gardening show for “balcony and window box”-owning plant lovers is set to open this weekend.Continue reading...