New Year's Honours
5 January 2009
The chair of the National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardens (NSALG), Allan Rees, has been awarded an MBE in the 2009 New Year's Honours list.
Capel Manor makeover
22 December 2008
Capel Manor horticultural college is looking for top garden designers to help redesign and replant show gardens on its Enfield site.
RHS President appointed
17 December 2008
Following the death of Peter Buckley, the Council of the RHS has announced the appointment of Giles Coode-Adams as President.
New School Gardening advisor
17 December 2008
Yorkshire and Humber school children have been given the chance to get their hands extra dirty and transform their school gardens, thanks to a new school gardening advisor courtesy of the RHS.
Library facing closure
17 December 2008
Proposals from the Landscape Institute (LI) to close its library and find a new home for its archive have been met with an outcry.
GQT debates VAT campaign
17 December 2008
A recent edition of Gardeners’ Question Time (aired 7/12/2008) featured a panellist’s debate on the RHS campaign to reduce the tax payable on all ornamental plants and seeds.
London gardens wanted
17 December 2008
The annual Open Garden Squares weekend in London is now signing up new gardens to take part in the 2009 event.
Charming worms
17 December 2008
Gardeners and nature lovers are being asked for their help in recording the country's population of earthworms.
Online questions & answers
8 December 2008
The directors of the RHS are hosting an online question and answer session on 20 January 2009 - and you can join in.
Carry on growing your own and saving
8 December 2008
The RHS Grow Your Own campaign returns in March 2009 and will include fruit as well as veg. We'd like you to help us build up a picture of what produce you already grow at home by filling in our short, online survey.
Peter Buckley, President of the RHS
2 December 2008
The Council of the Royal Horticultural Society is very sad to announce the sudden death of the Society’s President, Peter Buckley. He died early in the morning of 2 December after a short illness.
VAT cuts to help save money
1 December 2008
The RHS has responded to the reduction in VAT rates to pass on savings to customers at its shops, plant centres, catering outlets and online shopping sites.
RHS gardens host winter wonders
1 December 2008
This year the RHS is providing all the yuletide fun with a feast of events that promise to banish the winter blues.
Finnis Scott collection sale breaks records
1 December 2008
Pictures from the private art collection of plantswoman Valerie Finnis VMH and her husband Sir David Scott have been sold for record sums at Sotheby's.
Royal Forestry Society is 125
1 December 2008
The Queen has joined in the celebrations for the 125th annivesary of the Royal Forestry Society (RFS) at Windsor Forest and Great Park.
New edition of AGM Plants now available
28 November 2008
A new and revised edition of AGM Plants is now available to download. This documents more than 7,000 plants that have been awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM), including more than 100 new entries from the past year.
'Ugly' veg come in from the cold
18 November 2008
The European Union has abolished rules that impose strict controls over what fruit and veg sold in shops should look like.
Land and garden share
18 November 2008
A ground-breaking garden share scheme run by a town in Devon has inspired similar projects across the country to match would-be gardeners with unused land that they can cultivate.
Lower plant forms in the spotlight
18 November 2008
Mosses, liverworts and fungi might often be overlooked – but Plantlife Scotland is hoping it can persuade more people to appreciate their beauty and their importance for biodiversity.
Designers flying high
18 November 2008
Twelve of Britain's leading garden designers will build show gardens for Future Gardens, a new annual competition run by Butterfly World, near St Albans in Hertfordshire.
Planning application threat to Wisley
17 November 2008
The RHS needs your help now to oppose two planning application threats to RHS Garden Wisley. The applications are for the development of waste-management facilities on neighbouring sites.
Announcing a great gardening gift
17 November 2008
RHS Gift Membership makes the perfect present.
On the hunt for threatened fungus
11 November 2008
Conservationists are appealing to the public for sightings of waxcap fungi, Britain's most colourful, but most threatened species of fungus, in order to identify and protect the last remaining sites where it flourishes.
Millennium seed bank project under threat
11 November 2008
The world-famous Millennium Seed Bank at Kew is facing a funding crisis which may lead to it pulling back from its target of collecting seed from a quarter of the world's flowering plants by 2020.
The greenest greenhouse in the world?
11 November 2008
An American entrepreneur has engineered the first sustainably-heated private greenhouse in his back garden, heated almost entirely by naturally-generated energy.
New earthworms discovered
7 November 2008
Scientists have identified several new species of earthworms concluding the genus to be more complex than originally thought.
Vegetable Man painting on display
7 November 2008
Painted around 1590 by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, The Vegetable Man, depicting The Emperor Rudolph II in a collage of autumn fruits and vegetables, is on display at the National Gallery.
Buckingham Palace gardens to open
7 November 2008
Lovers of royal gardens are in for a treat next year as HM The Queen is to open the gardens of Buckingham Palace to the public for the first time in April, May and June.
Professional floristry competition at Chelsea
5 November 2008
A new professional floristry competition is being launched at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2009. The new competition, in association with the British Florist Association, takes place at the show in May and culminates in the announcement of the ‘Chelsea Florist of the Year’ and the ‘Young Chelsea Florist of the Year’.
London building turns green
20 October 2008
Landscapers have planted the largest green wall in Britain, at the new Leamouth Peninsula development in London's Docklands.
Tide turns against water primrose
20 October 2008
An escapee from garden ponds, which is clogging up Britain's waterways, may be about to join the government's list of illegal aliens - invasive non-native plant species that can't be introduced to the wild without a licence.
Get your hands on RHS images
14 October 2008
Some of the images held in RHS collections are now available to the public. A range of 250 has been selected for reproduction as high-quality prints and canvases.
New broom for East Lambrook Manor
14 October 2008
The new owner of East Lambrook Manor in Somerset, former home of Margery Fish, has said he will keep the garden open to the public.
Cherrybank re-opens
14 October 2008
The Bell’s Cherrybank Garden in Perth is to re-open with free access to the public.
Trentham gardeners face anxious wait
14 October 2008
Gardeners at the Trentham Estate, Staffordshire, face an anxious month after being told they all face possible redundancy.
Wisley passes taste test
8 October 2008
Top chef Raymond Blanc visited RHS Garden Wisley in a quest to find the best fruit in the country to grow in a new organic orchard at his Michelin-starred restaurant, Le Manoir Aux Quat’ Saisons.
RHS London Flower Shows: New look
7 October 2008
The RHS London Flower Shows are undergoing some exciting new developments, and from 2009 there will be a whole new look to these seasonal spectacles.
Front gardens get more protection
3 October 2008
The RHS welcomes new Government legislation which will make it more difficult for homeowners to concrete or pave over front gardens.
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