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RHS Flower Show Tatton Park is looking to the stars this year with its series of galaxy-themed gardens.Continue reading...

If you missed the show earlier on this month, take a look at this blog post on edible weeds. It gives you a quick rundown on some of the most edible weeds that grow in the UK :

Does a city ever really need lawns? That's a question posed by Angelica Gray in her new book Gardens of Marrakesh. In preparation for reading it, I've been trying to summon up images of Marrakesh that aren't straight out of desperate cliché. So far I've done badly. Keith Richards and Anita...

Not long ago, I accompanied a small group of American enthusiasts on a tour of some Italian gardens round Florence and Siena. As part of the package, I arranged for us to have access to a particular set of flower paintings in the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe at the Uffizi, which are not normally...

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Are you a keen UK gardener? Or do you visit parks or gardens? If so then the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and the University of Reading (UoR) would like your help by sharing your views on climate change and its impact on gardens and gardening practices in their new online survey.Continue...

BGCI’s Director of Education, Julia Willison, has been selected to become a fellow of The Noyce Foundation's Leadership Institute year-long programme.Continue reading...

Something weird has happened to my foxgloves. I had this notion around about May last year that the next big thing would be foxgloves, tall stems of pale bells shimmering out of a summer's dusk. I thought it would be romantic. I bought three pots. I planted three pots. (Almost all garden design...

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You don't need a garden (or an allotment) to grow decent vegetables. Crops in pots can be grown up steps, on balconies, in driveways – anywhere, in fact, where a pot will fit and where you can water and feed it without putting on crampons and a harness. You need biggish pots though, otherwise...

The RHS asks us to grow wild in National Gardening WeekContinue reading...

If you love to see wildlife in your garden, a visit to RHS Flower Show Cardiff will get you buzzing with great ideas.Continue reading...

Never mind the bulbs and blossom – for my money, early spring is the optimum moment for crazy outbreaks of unrealistic garden fantasy. "This year I will grow all my own vegetables for Christmas dinner." "This is just the right moment to build a golden pergola festooned with roses named after my...

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"Renewable resource" is a phrase we're constantly hearing, often in a context that's supposed to make us believe it's a freshly-minted idea. Of course, it's not. Gardeners have always understood the concept.Continue reading...

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Abby Hird, BGCI U.S. research associate and project manager, who has been hosted by the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University for the past three years, has set up a new office at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden (RSABG) in Claremont, California.Continue reading...

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