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The website for BGCI’s 8th International Congress on Education in Botanic Gardens is now live. Visit the website to find everything you need for registering and participating in this exciting congress.Continue reading...

The conference will be held Wednesday/Thursday 18-19 July 2012 in SiBG, Mikolow, Upper Silesia, Poland Registration deadline: end of April 2012Continue reading...

The final meeting of the 4D4Life (Distributed Dynamic Diversity Databases for Life) project will be held at the University of Reading, UK, from 26-30 March 2012. The meeting will include a 2-day public symposium: Taxonomy and the Catalogue of Life: Ecosystem of servicesContinue reading...

I am not sure just what percentage of you spend mid-week catching up with the latest from Grazia magazine, but just in case any of you missed it, in the last issue they actually name-checked a horticulturalist. Quite exciting, because you may be shocked to learn that it's not all that often that...

I used to know the streets round London's Clapham Old Town reasonably well, wheeling pushchairs past the grand façades of The Pavement, balancing small children on swings in Grafton Square, haring after scooters in Rectory Gardens. Someone once told me this was the oldest squat in London. I...

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Ah, the great British caravan. It does earn its keep. Think of how, each July, thousands of campers set off in motorhomes and vans to follow that illustrious bicycle race, the Tour de France. But back in 1976, the gardener Joy Larkcom and her family were setting off on a rather different...

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Scotland's potato crop will be down by as much as 50 per cent this season in some areas, according to growers who gathered this week near Dundee.Continue reading...

Lowaters Nursery has recently had lean business specialists Fedden USP review its business operations.Continue reading...

Virgin Experience Days has begun installation of its unmanned concession display stands at 20 Garden Centre Group garden centres.Continue reading...

Garland Products of Kingswinford, West Midlands, is launching over 300 garden care and hardware items under a new 'Worth Gardening' brand.Continue reading...

Hillier Garden Centres is to roll out a social media strategy across its 13 outlets to help build customer retention.Continue reading...

Hundreds of young people in Bulgaria, China, Greece, Peru, UK and USA took part in the 2012 Fairchild Challenge/BGCI Global Competition. They were challenged to research plants that represented their country’s biodiversity and then create a stunning wreath fit for an Olympic athlete.Continue...

2012年 5月7日，“国家一级保护植物珙桐回归启动仪式” 在八大公山国家级自然保护区举行,BGCI中国项目负责人文香英女士、湖北民族学院领导、八大公山国家级自然保护区管理局领导等30余人出席启动仪式并共植珙桐约500株。Continue reading...

The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation was discussed at the 16th meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) Subsidiary Body for Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 16) in Montreal last week.Continue reading...

Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew are running a five-week course in botanic garden education (16 April to 18 May 2012).Continue reading...

BGCI in collaboration with the three Chinese CSPC focal points, has carried out a review of progress in implementing the CSPC, with a special focus on Targets 7 and 8 and inter-related targets.Continue reading...

There is apparently an Egyptian legend that says that if you plant circles of sycamore trees, and you stand in the middle, you will hear God. So this is exactly what Patrick Alès, founder of the French botanical haircare company Phyto (Latin for plant), did in his breathtaking garden park, La...

Mizuna, mibuna, Chinese chives and pak choi would still be strangers on British allotments, were it not for Joy Larkcom. A few seeds were available, thanks to Chiltern Seeds' catalogue, but the problem was the lack of any detailed guidance on how best to grow them. That gap was stupendously...