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So I couldn’t get the tulip that I wanted. I had ordered and grown “Jacqueline” the previous year – to start with almost as a joke, because it’s a friend’s name. They were pure deep-pink and lily-flowered; their photo alone made me smile. And “Jacqueline” came up beautifully. Not only did she...

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Apply now to take part in the RHS / GCA Interchange Fellowship and get vital horticultural skills abroad and see the worldContinue reading...

More 200 registrations have been received from across the globe for the 5th Global Botanic Gardens / 6th BGANZ joint Congressto be held in Dunedin, New Zealand in October 2013.Continue reading...

Leaning out the side window during an untypical August traffic jam, it's the perfect moment to gaze enviously at the ready-to-crop burstiness of the allotments we're slowly passing. Between the brambles along the fence are brief glimpses of the imminent harvest, armfuls of green stems...

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There are huge areas of London I know nothing about and one of them is Camberwell. So I emerged from the Peckham Rye railway station like a traveller abroad, sniffing as always for clues about how the place worked. From the magnificent maelstrom of Rye Lane (and past a fantastic great loquat...

BGCI is delighted to announce that Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, Hong Kong has become our latest Patron Member.Continue reading...

Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) announced in late August that it was suspending its research programs while it grappled with an accelerating building foundation problem at its off-site Science Center.Continue reading...

Last week we were on cheating; this week we're moving on to more serious offences. In this instance, theft. A little while ago I read The Pedant in the Kitchen by Julian Barnes (the man who this department affectionately calls "Monsieur Jules", in ref to the big flouncy pink peony that shares...

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One warm, still evening in mid-July I picked the first peas, the first cucumber and the first courgette. My husband was away sailing in the Shetlands. The booty was mine, all mine. I made fat batons of the cucumber and ate them, dipped in hummus, as I sat outside shelling the peas. In the...

Professor Stephen Blackmore CBE, FRSE, Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), will step down in December 2013, after 14 years at the helm.Continue reading...

The Caucasus Plant Red List Authority has recently developed the Caucasus Plant Initiative: a Regional Plant Conservation Strategy, including 20 targets that correspond to the targets of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation.Continue reading...

OK, this time I admit it: I totally cheated. Of course, sometimes you buy a plant while it's still small, and then you could argue that you nursed it on into flower, great sprays of bloom that would never have existed without your patent horticultural skill. And other times you've grown them on...

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It's been a great year for bumblebees in our garden. Mostly, I suspect, because badgers have not dug up all the nests, as they usually do. I wonder what they are killing instead? They finished off the hedgehogs in this area, a long time ago. They roll them over and bite out their soft...