Research

RHS Science & Advice Report 2007

The RHS Science programme and gardeners’ advice service report for 2005-2006 is now available.

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Contents include:

• Climate change impacts on gardening: Why climate change features so strongly in RHS thinking and how our scientific work contributes to a better understanding for gardeners.
• Environmental sustainability: Exploring RHS research and advice to gardeners in the areas of composting, water management, planting, pest and disease biology and sustainable horticulture.
• Plant conservation: Working with UK and international partners to support wild and cultivated plant conservation.
• Recent projects: The report also highlights recent research projects.

Research home

The Laboratory at Wisley was built in 1916 to resemble a country residence. It houses the science departments, laboratory facilities, lecture hall and offices.

For further information about the RHS science programme, contact the Director of Science and Learning, Dr Simon Thornton-Wood, at RHS Garden Wisley. You can also find out more at the Wisley library.

RHS Science Report 2004

The RHS Science departments have produced a report on their research and findings from 2002-2004.

View a pdf on the introduction to RHS science (18KB)

View a pdf on the gardeners' needs research (23KB)

Topics covered in the report are also available as pdfs and can be downloaded here. They are:
Plant conservation (32KB)
Biodiversity (34KB)
Climate change (30KB)
Environmental sustainability (27KB)
Invasive non-native species (37KB)
Lime leaf-mining sawfly (26KB)
Trialing plants (43KB)
Plant nomenclature (32KB)
Composting (35KB)
Mulches and honey fungus (38KB)
Scarlet lily beetle (34KB)
Hellebore black death (46KB)
Plant pictures and the herbarium (28KB)
Garden Libraries (39KB)
Development of the RHS Plant Selector (58KB)

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