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81% of threatened conifers are reported as held in ex situ collections, but many threatened taxa are only represented in a small number of collections with limited value for recovery and restoration programmes. New BGCI report calls for greater action to ensure the survival of these...

BGCI China has recently initiated a project in Zhoushan Archipelago in collaboration with Zhejian University. This project will involve floristic investigation, conservation of threatened species, invasive species management and will inform study of the impact of global change on island...

Over the last 5 weeks, Kew and BGCI have been running a course for nine students from across to world. The course covered a range of topics related to botanic garden education and involved a variety of tasks and visits to inspirational gardens.Continue reading...

Earlier this month Zagreb Botanic garden hosted a workshop, lead by BGCI and Dr Theano Moussouri, from UCL, to discuss how and why a garden should grow its audience and social role. The workshop was attended by 27 botanic garden professionals from 25 institutions.Continue reading...

A mid-term review of progress towards the targets of the GSPC is being carried out by the Convention on Biological Diversity during 2014. According to a report compiled by BGCI, only one GSPC target is currently considered to be on track to be achieved by 2020 (Target 1).Continue reading...

Gardeners are being warned to look out for a new pest which threatens to lay waste to Britain’s box trees – the favoured shrub of topiary artists – by stripping plants bare.Continue reading...

So the big question, this time of year, turns out to be this: how can my friend Kelly screen her garden, so that she doesn't have to look at her neighbours while they are standing at their (upstairs flat) kitchen sink? We need a solution that covers up those washing-up souls with some sort of...

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Very rarely does the Chelsea Flower Show set a trend in gardening, but it often reflects shifts that have been going on for some time in the real world. At this year's show, there was a welcome move away from dark, claret-saturated plantings: maroon astrantia, purple-leaved geranium,...

The IUCN Red List has released its most up-to-date list of species with a conservation status. It lists over 19,000 plant species and of these 10,487 (54%) are threatened with extinction. The new list include 146 magnolias assessed by BGCI, many which are threatened with extinction in the...

2014 marks the 125th anniversary of the University of Zagreb Botanical Garden. It is the oldest university botanic garden in Croatia, and has always played an important in teaching, research and botanical studies at the University.Continue reading...

The Eden Project is set to have its best year yet for bananas. Gardener Shirley Walker tells the story of the 'world's most perfect fruit'Continue reading...

Dahlias, they're like those Disney songs from the studio's 2013 smash hit Frozen. Big, bright, not in very good taste, nonetheless totally irresistible. In fact the only dahlias I don't get are the mostly very popular "Bishop of Llandaff" and friends; far too respectable, frankly, with small...

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I suppose if you do it every day, the ride out from London Bridge station to Dulwich loses its appeal. But the line, perched high on its embankment, gives you a terrific bird's-eye view down into the high streets and back yards of South Bermondsey and Peckham Rye, the buildings in late spring...

Experts from the RHS share tips for what to do, see and buy in the garden world this monthContinue reading...

The Cuban Botanical Society has informed us of the death, on June 3 2014, of Dr. Angela T. Leiva Sánchez, Director General of the National Botanic Garden, CubaContinue reading...

TRAFFIC has launched an online interactive "Traditional and wild" toolbox, created to showcase the use of a variety of wild plant species used for traditional medicine and for food in Central Europe and beyond.Continue reading...

The New Sylva is a contemporary and seminal text on trees and forestry in the UK, published in April 2014. Botanic gardens across the UK are celebrating its publication with activities and events throughout the year.Continue reading...

Thematic exhibition launched in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Relict Trees of the Hyrcanian Forest in Talysh Mountains of Southern Azerbaijan.Continue reading...