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'I stalked the teacher," Sarah Salway, garden writer, laughs as she describes the slightly alarming enthusiasm she developed in her first-ever creative-writing class. ("Who I am still friends with!" she quickly adds, to reassure me.)Continue reading...

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As much a flavour as a food, the versatile cucumber has a convert in gardener Mark DiaconoContinue reading...

'Don't ever do an octagonal garden!" Cleve West, garden-maker extraordinaire at this year's Chelsea Flower Show, has one main piece of advice for our readers; and it's all about geometry.Continue reading...

I'm puzzled by rosemary. Not because it's difficult to grow. All it needs is sun and half-decent drainage (grit helps). The puzzle arises from the colour of the flowers. The ones I like best are a deep, intense blue. Over the years, I've taken masses of cuttings from Italian plants that have...

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The Chelsea Flower Show is a highlight in the horticultural calendar. Held in spring each year at the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London UK, the show attracts thousands of visitors from around the world. BGCI shares some of our highlights from RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2014.Continue reading...

It's asparagus season and enthusiasts can now try out purple and white varieties as well as our beloved greenContinue reading...

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BGCI is very pleased to announce that our partner in Cuba has won the prestigious 2014 Whitley Award. Dr. Luis Roberto Gonzalez Torres, a BGCI ambassador, is leading the winning project which engages Cubans in building a national movement to protect their Island’s unique plant life.Continue...

Would you rather buy a pair of patterned wellies, or turn your car into a "seed bomb"? That's the question this week for fans of horticulture. The traditionalists will be heading for Chelsea Flower Show, where a premium ticket will cost you £400. Add to that the cost of some twee accessories...

How much money does a garden deserve to have spent on it? That's the big question we're mulling over this weekend, putting our feet up and contemplating the bare patches, the unrepaired fence panel and the almost physically untrimmable tree, which gives me arm ache just looking at...

May 18th is Plant Conservation Day, an opportunity to celebrate the importance of plants and learn more about the key role we all play in their conservation.Continue reading...

How long does it take to pull together each year's Chelsea Flower Show?Continue reading...

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I've just bought yet another fern with an unpronounceable name. It's just as well nobody ever comes to the garden, otherwise I'd have to try saying some of these names out loud. It's our fault, of course, as it was we who carried out the christenings. The fern, which managed perfectly well for...

The CITES Plants Committee meeting is being held in Veracruz, Mexico from 2-8 May, 2014. An important item on the agenda will be cooperation with the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC).Continue reading...

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

The best peas are always homegrown. Mark Diacono explains how to plant them- and, happily, there's plenty of time to get startedContinue reading...

With Easter upon us, garden specialist Liz Dobbs takes a look at the tasks we could do this weekend and advises on the seeds, plants and accessories that can help make this a special yearContinue reading...