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Over 300 delegates from 43 countries were present at the opening of the 5th Global Botanic Gardens Congress (5GBGC) in Dunedin, New Zealand. The congress is being held in partnership with the 6th Biennial Botanic Gardens of Australia and New Zealand (BGANZ) Congress.Continue reading...

When Caroline Zoob was living at Monk's House, the former home of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, she recalls how she would overhear visitors speculating erroneously about the Woolf marriage, and what they presumed were Virginia's many lesbian affairs. "I would sit in the kitchen gritting my...

BGCI is set to coordinate a major new project which will develop a community of botanic gardens and arboreta around the world using ‘sentinel’ plants to provide early warning of new and emerging tree and plant pests and diseasesContinue reading...

Botanic gardens are already involved in a wide range of activities that have relevance to the growing food security crisis. It is important that these activities are recognized, promoted and enhanced.Continue reading...

See the nine RHS Britain in Bloom and It's Your Neighbourhood Groups who were successful in attaining grants for peat-reduced and peat-free projectsContinue reading...

Lytham is the Champion of Champions of the RHS Britain in Bloom 2013Continue reading...

So my aunty was on Facebook last night going on about how Sarah Raven had sucked her in and taken all her money again. OK, you think this might be an exaggeration. But what she actually said was, "Oh Sarah Raven, how you tempt me with your plant porn. In goes a big seed'n'bulb order. Yes." (As a...

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One of the best things about being a gardening correspondent is the cast-iron excuse it gives me to abandon washing-up, shopping and other hideous duties and go gardening instead. The rich, still days that we so often get in the first half of October can provide the best conditions of the...

What will delegates be talking about at the 5th Global Botanic Gardens Congress? We are highlighting 6 'hot topics' that we hope will stimulate useful and lively discussion.Continue reading...

Olveston House in Dunedin has kindly extended an invitation to the members of BGCI, ICOM New Zealand and accompanying people to visit and take a tour free of chargeContinue reading...

A little curling fountain of pink firework sparks, each flower head is made up of a studded set of tinier flowers, a bit like a Barbie-toned Agapanthus. There are only a few floral highlights at this time of year, but among them are the prettiest, frilliest and slightly pink-spidery of early...

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Gardeners plan to 'colour the county yellow' to celebrate the Tour de France's Yorkshire start in 2014.Continue reading...

The human race divides into two clear groups, I reckon. There are those admirable people who come to the end of the summer holidays and then spend the early autumn enthusiastically enjoying long walks in the misty park, wearing selections from their wardrobe of unusual scarves, kicking up the...

Annual flowers are profligate with their seed. Which is why, with very little effort now, you can collect free supplies to provide next year's flowers. This summer has been superb for both producing seed (plants have grown with tremendous vigour) and ripening it. I had an unusually peaceful...