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The latest update of The IUCN Red List shows worrying declines for conifers - the world's oldest and largest organisms. According to the results, 34% of the world's conifers are now threatened with extinction - an increase by 4% since the last complete assessment in 1998.Continue reading...

You know right away when you've got the colours in a garden wrong. Here are just some wrong things from my personal album: the deep 1960s purple of an allium, making an adjacent rose in fine-toned pink just look ill; and what about two white flowers next to each other, one rendering the other...

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How would I know that this was a French garden, not an English one, I thought, as we sat on the terrace at Le Pavillon de Galon having breakfast outside in the sun? After a grim non-spring we'd come in mid May for a quick pick-me-up in the Luberon – Sunday till Wednesday – staying in a chambre...

Guess What! Thanks to the efforts and contributions of both the United States Botanic Garden and Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, we are ecstatic to announce the introduction of 28 new threatened species signs to our Care for the Rare Sign Library.Continue reading...

Selina Botham-designed display will depict the shape of a crown and a large number 35, sculpted from a locally felled oak treeContinue reading...

Sir Nicholas Bacon takes over the role of President of the RHS.Continue reading...

BGCI, the Natural History Museum Fribourg and the Botanic Garden of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, have published a global action plan for the conservation of the six extant species of Zelkova, a relict genus that dates back to the Tertiary era (~65-2.5 million years BP).Continue...

A trip around Iceland inspired Smoke on the Water, an art installation at this year's showContinue reading...

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We might have thought it a lousy spring. Many plants evidently disagree. We have more wild orchids in the orchard than ever before. What is it that they are liking? I wish I knew. It seems to me that no human life is long enough to properly understand the interconnectedness of growing things....

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Price: £1,299 Battery: Lithium-ion 32.4V 3Ah Battery charge time: 50 mins Battery run time: 50 mins Speed: 0.45m/sec Slopes (max): 35 per cent Cutting width: 26cm Height of cut: 20-60 mmContinue reading...

Pre register now for all RHS shows in 2014 including all the summer shows and the spring show RHS Flower Show CardiffContinue reading...

Gardening personalities team up with Ecover to design inspirational plantersContinue reading...

The hunt is on for the world’s best garden photographer as entry opens for the 2013 RHS Photography Competition.Continue reading...

Will you put a bid in on celebrity-stamped hen-houses at Hampton?Continue reading...

"I spent yesterday fixing my toilet," explains my friend Johnno, in among the glamour of the Chelsea Flower Show. "I had to take off the cistern, then put on another one."Continue reading...