News

2012

January

• Chance to see rare tree in flower
• Final closure for Stapeley

2011

November

• Evelyn's garden under threat from development
• Island botanic garden seeks new owner

October

• First edition book marks Loire gardens visit

August

• Be a part of the ‘Big Wildlife Garden'
• Experiment to find trees of the future
• Hunt on for rare lacecap hydrangeas

June

• Vote for your favourite rose
• Schools' square metre gardens impress judges
• A snapshot of gardening Britain
• Reward offered for new plants
• I-Spy series' new book on RHS Garden Wisley

May

• Highgrove Florilegium
• Lottery money saves kitchen garden
• Wild cherry is top of the pops
• Exhibition honour for Chelsea gold medallist

April

• Beekeepers enlist swarm help
• Collectors are serious threat to carnivorous plants
• Wales first to pin down plant genes
• Alan Titchmarsh opens new RHS learning centre
• Cliveden maze amazes again
• 'Spectacular' 20th century garden opens gates
• Small birds weather the winter
• Leaves could solve global problems
• Walpole's 'most delicious' garden recreated
• Bowles garden restored

March

• Last-minute reprieve for 18th-century garden
• Potatoes to be saved for posterity
• Celebrating 30 years of great design
• Public cash for botanic garden
• Giant flowerbud keeps gardeners on tenterhooks
• UN identifies lethal cocktail killing honeybees
• People power enlisted in climate change research
• Boris opens new winter garden
• Triple whammy of disease strikes Scottish park
• Oak caterpillars defeat eradication effort
• Havens for hedgehogs

February

• Orchids - secret of their success
• Historic landscape revealed
• Gardening courses relaunched by lecturer
• See the first signs of spring

January

• Museum garden restoration begins
• Archive takes garden back in time

2010

December

• Future doubt for 'renowned' plant collection
• Roman village discovered under parkland
• Free admission to National Botanic Garden of Wales
• London gardens wanted
• Diamond Quest winner

November

• Coping with snow and heavy ice
• Wisley visitors break world record
• Exbury revives plant hunting
• Christmas comes early for parks
• Thousands of saplings going free
• Aberglasney changes

October

• Royal opening at Harlow Carr
• Hedgerow survey needs your help
• Rosemoor's outgoing curator looks back at 22 years

September

• Popular Cornish garden put on the market
• Stapeley palm house re-opens
• Euro honours for Trentham
• Curator of Chelsea Physic Garden moves on
• Renaissance for Devon garden
• Recognition for ‘challenging’ restoration

August

• Storm fells 150-year-old horse chestnut
• Project to revive waterfall
• Prison wins national garden competition
• Mawson's roses revived
• Renovated Wisley garden unveiled
• RHS garden on tourism award shortlist

July

• RHS curator opens garden for charity
• New garden heritage degree
• Gardens meet art in Edinburgh
• Wildlife garden wins children's competition
• A garden for a rainy day
• £3.3 million RHS education centre launched

June

• Knot garden designers wanted
• Hoisin leads her ducklings to Wisley's lake
• New powers to prevent garden-grabbing
• Public vote for garden restoration

May

• Hidden garden reveals treasures
• Gloucestershire arboretum extends collection
• Tourist award for RHS flagship garden

April

• Rare chance to view private gardens
• Duke of Bedford opens garden gates
• Botanic garden comes under review
• A host of daffodils at two-day show
• English Heritage recognition for Kelmarsh
• Restoration begins at Victorian garden
• Princess's former garden reopens

March

• Experimental veg garden takes shape
• Centuries-old apple varieties in new orchard
• Sat nav technology used to plot plant map
• Alan Titchmarsh visits Hyde Hall
• Repairs costing millions needed at Kew Gardens
• Rare Russian tulips on display for the first time
• Rhododendron gardens open for last season

February

• Grade I status for memorial gardens

January

• Garden project splits Aberdeen
• £9m grant aids castle garden's rebirth
• Neighbours save historic estate

2009

December

• Yorkshire garden wins tourism award
• Agatha Christie novels inspire unusual garden
• Dame Kiri Te Kanawa to star at Wisley
• New trainee for RHS Recommended Garden

November

• Britain's largest winter garden opens
• Castle opts for biomass boiler