The Halloween Christmas tree is becoming the latest trend in home gardening-inspired decoration, says Matt Appleby.
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Horse chestnuts under threat
Pests or diseases have damaged most of Britain’s 470,000 horse chestnut trees and there are just five years left to find a solution, experts warn.
Plant trial update
Gardening Club members are growing 12 new plants for Richard Jackson’s Garden. Here is a plant trial update on some of the plants members are growing.
Houseplants are trendy
Sales of hosueplants have sky-rocketed as houseplants become trendy again. London-based North One Garden Centre attributes this to the Instagram effect.
The RHS is growing
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has more than trebled the number of staff that the charity pays a six figure salary to, says Matt Appleby.
Success for first Gardening Club event
Dozens of gardeners joined Richard Jackson and other QVC presenters at the first exclusive Gardening Club event at Easton Walled Gardens in June.
Celebrate British Flowers Week 2016
Get behind this year’s British Flowers Week to support and celebrate local and British grown cut flowers.
Finding lost plants
Cultivated plant conservation charity, Plant Heritage, has released a list of garden plants that are believed to be on the cusp of extinction.
Titchmarsh lays down challenge to Cameron
It’s time to make a stance on the natural world, Alan Titchmarsh tells David Cameron at a ‘Greening Grey Britain’ summit at RHS Chelsea.
Clematis raised on Flower Power wins at Chelsea
A clematis fed on Richard Jackson’s Flower Power has won Chelsea Plant of the Year 2016. Clematis koreana ‘Amber’ is from Taylors Clematis.
Ethnicity in horticulture
Garden designer Juliet Sargeant says more can be done to attract different cultures and ethnicities into the horticulture industry.
Lawrence Wright wins Young Horticulturist of the Year
After an exciting grand final in Dublin, Lawrence Wright wins Young Horticulturist of the Year 2016
Making flowerpots for 40 years
Deep in the heart of Warwickshire, the Keeling family have been taking local clay and turning it into exquisite hand made pots for the last forty years.
Exciting new plans for RHS Gardens
The Royal Horticultural Society has just announced a £165 million investment plan for two of its gardens.
A £165m investment programme will see two leading UK gardens transformed by the Royal Horticultural Society.
Celebrity launch for the Flower Power Art Exhibition
Tickets for the Special Preview of the Flower Power Art Exhibition go on sale.
Downton Abbey Actor Jim Carter will be launching the event on May 5th at the Strand Gallery in London.
Garden Re-Leaf Day
Across the UK garden centres and nurseries are staging a variety of events to raise money for the Greenfingers Charity as part of 2016 Garden Re-Leaf day.
