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On 20th September, 2012, Prof. Qingwen Zeng, suffered fatal injuries following a tragic accident while on duty for a plant conservation project at Pingzhai Forest Station, Prof. Zeng was a leading magnolia expert and an important partner of BGCI.Continue reading...

We are looking for keen gardening amateurs, members of the trade and gardening professionals to get involved with our Award of Garden Merit (AGM) plant trials.Continue reading...

LATE varieties of apples will be ready for picking any time from now until about the third week in October. But if windy weather threatens they need to be picked sooner, before they can be blown off and bruised, which makes them rot quickly.Continue reading...

Ambius has created a peaceful courtyard garden for a major institute near Buckingham Palace that reflects interior planting by the same design team.Continue reading...

A charity is celebrating the painstaking completion of an oak-frame that will form a heritage centre in a historic park 10 years after fire destroyed the original building.Continue reading...

Wakefield Council opened Jubilee Gardens last week, a showcase landscape by Gillespies.Continue reading...

Blue Peter Gardener Chris Collins and writer Rosie Boycott are to present trees to a school to highlight a new funding round of the Capital Growth campaign.Continue reading...

Greenkeepers have squeezed out more efficiency from their machinery by sharpening up their upkeep regime.Continue reading...

Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council is looking for contractors to carry out weed control in the borough.Continue reading...

Bosses at the Olympic Park are to take on sweeping new planning powers to give them the final say on approvals, appeals and enforcement action.Continue reading...

The Tree Council has launched a campaign to encourage people to collect seeds to pot up and grow into small trees.Continue reading...

The Processors and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO) has appointed Roger Vickers as chief executive.Continue reading...

Thompson & Morgan (T&M) is offering a reward of £1000 of vouchers for anyone who has copies of its catalogues from 1913 and 1914.Continue reading...

The week ending 23 September saw another slightly up sales week in garden centres, following the steady trend this September has brought.Continue reading...

A woman was killed by a falling tree branch on 23 September at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew during gusts of wind of 48km/h. The woman, a New Zealander believed to be 32 years old, was hit by the branch on Sunday afternoon. Kew Gardens was closed on Monday following severe weather warnings...

RHS Garden Rosemoor is offering 10 keen gardeners the chance to attend an informative and practical allotment course which offers RHS expert advice and home-grown harvestsContinue reading...

Look, I love digging and pruning as much as the next horticulturalist, but there are some things I find very irritating about gardening. For instance, seeing a plant growing in a garden, looking stupendous, and then getting on the internet and finding I have to wait until next year to get hold...

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There have been some good things about this summer. Yes. Really. One of them is that I haven't once had to stagger up the bank with a watering can to water the big pots of pelargoniums. It's a steep bank and the can, a French one, takes more than the standard two-gallon English kind. That's a...

THERE is just enough time to take cuttings of some of your favourite half-hardy garden plants this month to ensure you have replacements should this winter turn nasty.Continue reading...