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The notion of National Collections is to stop varieties of plants disappearing and at the recent Hampton Court Flower Show the BBC featured two such collections, Plantagogo’s Heuchera and Barry Clarke’s Milkweed. The Plant Heritage Marquee was celebrating national collections and it was really interesting to find out that, amateur gardeners and greenhouse growers can [...]
Just over a week since the close of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and here at Flower Shows we are still reeling with all the new gardening innovations and news from the show. One of the garden displays that left a lasting impression was the Bee Garden by Janey Auchincloss and Paul Hammond. Their show [...]
All the team here are supporting the idea of children becoming interested in gardening and there are a number of great school initiatives to encourage children to grow plants, fruits and vegetables. This has got to be a good thing for the future. Although some schools are including gardening in the curriculum – it teaches [...]
Examples of pothole gardening by Shannon Spanhake were created as early as 2005 in the US and there are further examples in the UK from Pete Dungey. Pete Dungey began planting flowers in potholes in Oxford and advocates “if we planted one of those in every hole, it would be like a forest in the [...]
Is it a Bush or is it a Tree? Many people tend to think the Mulberry is a bush – mainly as the children’s rhyme refers to it as such “Here we go round the Mulberry bush” but the Mulberry is a tree and is a very intriguing tree at that. The Mulberry came to [...]
Bluebells are late this year – the harsh winter and late Spring have really taken its toll. Did you know that the English bluebell is endangered; it has been in great decline over the past 50 years due to an ever-increasing number of Spanish bluebells. There are a number of reasons for the decline of [...]
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