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The Tour de France is over and the Olympics finally under way, so now we can spend the next three weeks gasping, 'She ran it how fast? HOW FAST?' and doing some mental arithmetic about the 20 minutes later we'd have finished.Continue reading...

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We're now facing what is still, for me, the most difficult month in the garden, in terms of keeping up the show. But I'm getting better at accepting that perhaps nothing too much should be expected of the gardener in late July and August. A little dead-heading perhaps, a little work with the...

Goulds Garden Centre in Dorset is keen to warn other garden centres about fraudulent credit cards after narrowly avoiding being stung in a £3,000 attempted credit card fraud.Continue reading...

Former Defra civil servant Dame Helen Ghosh DCB will be the next director-general of the National Trust.Continue reading...

Parks, gardens and trees hold the key to overturning retail wreckage on our high streets, says a Government report prompted by the high-profile shopping siren Mary Portas. The report, published by the communities department, formed part of its Portas programme of support for high streets, said...

The Institute of Chartered Foresters (ICF) has appointed ICF fellow Dr Mark Johnston to chair an urban tree research conference in 2014. The event follows last year s Trees, People and the Built Environment conference, which the ICF hosted on behalf of a twenty-strong partnership of...

Ransomes Jacobsen has developed a solar canopy for a ride-on mower that can add almost an extra third of power to the vehicle, it says. The kit maker teamed up with Danish company SunDrive to create the flat canopy on top of an all-electric version of the Jacobsen Eclipse 322 greens mower. The...

The 6th European Botanic Gardens Congress came to a successful conclusion on Friday 1st June. With over 130 participants from more than 30 countries, the Congress provided an excellent opportunity for botanic garden staff from across Europe and beyond to meet and exchange ideas and...

中科院西双版纳热带植物园指导并选送的勐仑中学学生沈先珏制作的花环入选“全球奥运植物花环竞赛”前十名。Continue reading...

HRH the Prince of Wales sent a meesage of support for the launch of the Ecological Restoraiton Alliance of Botanic GardensContinue reading...

Botanic gardens around the world will sign an historic agreement on 23 May 2012 to restore the world’s damaged ecosystems.Continue reading...

Brooklyn Botanic Garden's new Visitor Center is not only very attractive, it’s also ecologically sustainable and aspires to earn a LEED Gold rating.Continue reading...

To get to Beth Chatto's house you turn down an unremarkable lane just near a petrol station in the heart of Essex. Here is the celebrated gardener's residence itself: a white suburban bungalow that sits plump on well-mown green turf. And though it's signposted well, it remains a surprising...

It's been an amazing season for weeds. In the hideous conditions of the past few months, docks have grown to tropical proportions and you can wring enough water to wash in from the crunchy stems of sow thistles. Round here, there have been endless reminders of how thinly order lies on chaos. In...

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Bad news. It is at this time of year, when we've finally seen some sunshine, that we must forget about tans and start turning our thoughts to wrapping up warm (ugh), going outside in the cold (yikes) and digging several hundred holes in stony frozen soil (blerg). Yep, it's bulb-order time...

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BGCI launches a global survey of ex situ conifer collections to help plan and prioritise conifer conservation.Continue reading...

The ESCAPE project of Helsinki University aims to implement a national action plan for ex-situ conservation in Finland and create a national gene bank for threatened native species, including both vascular plants and bryophytesContinue reading...