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TRAFFIC has produced a new set of guidelines to help countries carry out Non-Detriment Findings for CITES-listed perennial plants. The Guidelines will provide important support for the implementation of GSPC Target 11.Continue reading...

A new partnership between the Global Trees Campaign and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew's Millennium Seed Bank Partnership will step up conservation for some of the world’s most threatened tree species.Continue reading...

It's easy to feel energetic about the fun stuff. Fun means deciding to grow a new kind of salad leaf or setting off into the countryside to discover the delights of the plant list at an unfamiliar nursery. Not fun is also simple to identify. It's those tricky-to-love, dogged tasks of editing...

It's a long time since I've grown what you might call a 'proper' lettuce, with a juicy heart wrapped round with too many throwaway leaves. I'm a complete convert to cut-and-come-again salad crops, which you can sow in containers all the way through the growing season. I occasionally miss the...

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Make a bid for Brewin Dolphin’s unique garden bench designed by Matthew ChildsContinue reading...

I am terribly motivated by cake. It's a known feature of my character. And I don't think I'm alone. I'm pretty sure my grandma stands firmly with me on the issue. One of the reasons I know this is that when I was about six, on a sunny summer afternoon we'd pull a copy of The Yellow Book from...

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The point about spring is that it takes you by surprise. It's the basis of all enduring love affairs. You have the security of knowing roughly how the plot will play out, combined with the intriguing differences of each encounter. You think you know how it's going to be, but then it sweeps you...

BGCI invites botanic gardens around the world to submit their interest to host the 10th BGCI International Congress on Education in Botanic Gardens in 2018. The deadline for submitting your interest is 15th September, 2014Continue reading...

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Gardening, once perceived as the sole preserve of middle-class women who revere the Chelsea Flower Show, is now being used as an effective therapy to help drug addicts, soldiers with post-traumatic disorders and stroke victims alike.Continue reading...

OK, I have to admit that taking advice from me on this subject is a bit like taking advice on how to give up drinking from Charlie Sheen. The last time I went to the garden centre for "research", I spent nearly £90 and came home with not just deep-pink geraniums but also, um, a jam funnel....

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For flower power, particularly in a small garden, there is nothing to beat clematis. There are a few with handsome leaves, such as the evergreen early flowering C. armandii, but for the most part, flowers are all they have got. Form, and substance, can be borrowed from other shrubs. Clematis...

Lunch time I was in the City center all you could see was people walking around with bags full of plants , really sunny day as well

hmmmm so this photo of GCHQ admins Christmas party / fun day out is a fake Ziggie ? Which one are you , by the way ?

The Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh has developed a novel approach to tree conservation: incorporating historic and threatened trees in a "heritage hedge" which surrounds the garden.Continue reading...

A mid-term review of progress towards the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation 2011-2020 will be carried out by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in October 2014. In preparation for this mid-term review, a draft technical background document has been compiled by BGCI.Continue...

This year's event features three exciting Show Features which share new ideas about wildlife gardening and celebrate Wales's horticultural success.Continue reading...