News

2012

May

• Queen presents Diamond Jubilee Award at Chelsea
• Turning towns & cities green
• Turning towns & cities green
• M&G Garden
• M&G Garden
• M&G Garden
• Steal the Chelsea designers' style
• Purchasing paradise for gardeners
• Four golds for Joe at Chelsea
• Vote for your favourite garden
• Vote for your favourite garden
• Chelsea awards 2012
• Chelsea awards 2012
• My top five Chelsea gardens
• My top five Chelsea gardens
• Chelsea highlights
• Structure of strength
• Structure of strength
• Plant of the Year 2012 announced
• Plant of the Year 2012 announced
• The diversity of dandelions
• Visit the world at RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
• Visit the world at RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
• Iris stars among new launches
• The Russian Museum Garden
• Pot Art!
• Pot Art!
• Win a trip to the Azores
• Win a trip to the Azores
• Rust spotters needed
• The Swiss Alpine Garden
• The Swiss Alpine Garden
• Renault continues to support the RHS in 2012
• Love quirky design?
• Mediterranean-style
• If you are eco-conscious...
• If your garden is a sanctuary...
• If you're a plant expert...
• Two-spot ladybird populations halved by harlequin
• If you love wildlife...
• Plant hunting adventures come to life
• About our sponsor
• The art of Heywood and Condie
• Artisan Retreats - garden interiors at Chelsea
• A Fresh Look at sculpture
• RHS Garden Rosemoor top of the pack
• Azores: revealing the mid-Atlantic archipelago
• Azores: revealing the mid-Atlantic archipelago
• Azores: revealing the mid-Atlantic archipelago
• A giant rhododendron problem
• Win a holiday for two in Jordan
• Win a holiday for two in Jordan
• Discover Jordan Garden
• Discover Jordan Garden
• Plant cure for toothache
• Schools celebrate sustainability
• Schools celebrate sustainability
• Plant displays with impact
• World Vision garden
• World Vision garden
• Chelsea goes digital
• Chelsea goes digital
• Plant of the Year goes worldwide
• Plant of the Year goes worldwide
• Top award four years running
• Plants with the wow factor
• Plants with the wow factor
• Malvern show awards
• Malvern show awards
• Clouds, rain and silver linings
• The Chelsea effect
• The Chelsea effect
• Gardeners' Question Time at RHS shows
• Win a Renault worth £20,000
• Win a Renault worth £20,000
• Centenary border given a contemporary design
• Princess to open Teaching Gardens
• The French connection
• The French connection
• First ever caravan-focused show garden
• Fresh and glamorous at Chelsea
• Fresh and glamorous at Chelsea

April

• Highlights at Gardeners’ World Live 2012
• Highlights at Gardeners’ World Live 2012
• Exclusive Brewin Dolphin charity auction
• Exclusive Brewin Dolphin charity auction
• David Domoney launches search for young gardener of the year
• David Domoney launches search for young gardener of the year
• Win a holiday for two in Grenada
• Explore Grenada's 'Tropical Paradise'
• Schools wheelbarrow competition
• Schools wheelbarrow competition
• RHS Gardens top Which? visitor list
• Good enough to eat at RHS Show Cardiff 2012
• Good enough to eat at RHS Show Cardiff 2012
• Good enough to eat at RHS Show Cardiff 2012
• Rich rewards at Cardiff show
• Rich rewards at Cardiff show
• Dazzling displays in the floral marquee
• Buzzing with recycling ideas
• Buzzing with recycling ideas
• Buzzing with recycling ideas
• Inspirational show gardens
• Inspirational show gardens
• Inspirational show gardens
• A riot of colour under one roof
• A riot of colour under one roof
• Be first to see the show
• Be first to see the show
• RHS and Groundwork join forces
• RHS and Groundwork join forces
• Britain in Bloom will get through drought
• Chris Beardshaw gets inspiration from local landmarks
• Chris Beardshaw gets inspiration from local landmarks
• National Gardening Week sends UK wild
• National Gardening Week sends UK wild
• Capture UK gardens on camera
• Plants & advice for drought conditions

March

• Something for the ladies
• Something for the ladies
• Ticket prices
• Chris Beardshaw and Groundwork
• Chris Beardshaw and Groundwork
• More from M&G Investments
• More from M&G Investments
• 'The M&G Garden' 2012
• M&G Investments
  Timeless Investment Principles
• Enjoy an exclusive preview evening on 17 July
• Enjoy an exclusive preview evening on 17 July
• Enjoy an exclusive preview evening on 17 July
• Designs on a greener future for our towns & cities
• Designs on a greener future for our towns & cities
• 20 years of Gardeners' World Live
• 20 years of Gardeners' World Live
• About our sponsor
• About our sponsor
• Water restrictions in force
• Practical information
• Travelling to BBC Gardeners’ World Live
• Ticket Information
• Show off your artistic skills and win £1,000 for charity
• Show off your artistic skills and win £1,000 for charity
• Designing a greener future for towns & cities
• Designing a greener future for towns & cities
• What's new at the show in 2012
• What's new at the show in 2012
• Facilities
• Ticket prices
• Travelling to Malvern
• Accessibility
• Celebrating a tradition of Royal patronage
• Ticket prices
• Chris Beardshaw and Groundwork
• Budding designers fight it out in 2012
• Budding designers fight it out in 2012
• A feast for rose lovers
• A feast for rose lovers
• Sweet pea zealot's first Hampton
• Sweet pea zealot's first Hampton
• Exclusive interview with designer Arne Maynard
• Exclusive interview with designer Arne Maynard
• New plant discoveries accredited to a select few
• How climate change affects hedgehogs
• A world in turmoil?
• A world in turmoil?
• New at Hampton Court for 2012
• New at Hampton Court for 2012
• New at Hampton Court for 2012
• Hospitality
• Russian art recreated at Hampton Court garden
• Russian art recreated at Hampton Court garden
• Russian art recreated at Hampton Court garden
• Step into spring
• Travelling to Hampton Court Palace
• Eating and drinking at the show
• Practical information
• Access
• Fruit and veg extravaganza
• Fruit and veg extravaganza
• What’s new...
• What’s new...
• Local schools compete in creative gardening
• Local schools compete in creative gardening
• Fascinating facts
• Fascinating facts
• Fascinating facts
• Residents' show garden to go back to its roots
• Ticket prices
• Corporate hospitality 2012
• Travelling to Tatton Park
• Food and drink
• Practical information
• Accessibility
• Musical theme adds new dimension
• Musical theme adds new dimension
• Fascinating facts...
• A feast of floristry
• Designer Tom Hoblyn's quest for gold
• Exclusive Arthritis Research UK competition
• Designer Tom Hoblyn's quest for gold
• Exclusive Arthritis Research UK competition
• Exclusive Arthritis Research UK competition
• Designer Tom Hoblyn's quest for gold
• Exclusive Arthritis Research UK competition
• A rich heritage...
• A rich heritage...
• Nearly half of UK schools now gardening
• Nearly half of UK schools now gardening

February

• Ticket prices
• Small veg plot, big ideas
• Practical information
• Chris Beardshaw designs community show garden
• Chris Beardshaw designs community show garden
• World's most expensive snowdrop
• Women gardeners to be held in memory
• Young School Gardener of the Year launch
• Young School Gardener of the Year launch
• Hillier strikes gold with new plant
• Coping with drought in spring & summer
• Taste of the tropics in the Great Pavilion
• Ventnor Botanic Garden under new management
• Gardeners urged to become 'one in a million'
• Olympian challenge for community gardeners
• Urban show gardens with a twist
• Mary Grierson VMM, VMH
• New highlights for RHS Show Cardiff
• New trials programme for flowers, fruit and veg
• Say it with flowers for the Queen's Jubilee
• Louis Robert Russell VMH
• Rare lichen found in Wales
• Corporate hospitality 2012
• Fresh Gardens
• Fresh Gardens
• Fascinating facts...
• Fascinating facts...
• Fascinating facts...
• Fresh show gardens unveiled
• Fresh show gardens unveiled
• Fresh show gardens unveiled
• Practical information
• Access
• Travelling to Chelsea
• Eating and drinking at the show
• Hillier sets the stage for its exhibit
• Pavilion highlights
• The Telegraph Garden designed by Sarah Price
• The Telegraph Garden designed by Sarah Price
• Botanic gardens rise from ashes of Cornish tin mine

January

• Horticulture helps vulnerable children
• Gardening queries hit an all-time high
• Cheshire's nursery heritage celebrated
• Awards to lobelia cultivars with impact
• Finalists announced for Britain in Bloom 2012
• 'Lost' Darwin plant fossils rediscovered
• New lease of life for apple collection
• Meagre fruit yields from mild winter
• 'Thrilling' New York design for Aberdeen
• Scotland focus on juniper campaign
• Chance to see rare tree in flower
• Slugs and snails back as most troublesome pests
• Scientists explain how the buttercup got its glow
• Final closure for Stapeley
• Government funding for greener horticulture

2011

December

• New Year, new plans
• Mistletoe growers wanted
• RHS announces most extensive programme of investment in its history
• Chance to design a garden for Tatton 2012
• Huge variation in UK allotment rents
• A slice of Wales goes east
• Aquilegias yield clue to pollination puzzle
• Giant dahlias bloom in unseasonal warmth
• Wild conifers under threat

November

• RHS launches National Gardening Week
• Evelyn's garden under threat from development
• 'Secret garden' saved
• How green are our gardens?
• Cycads ‘not ancient’
• Last plant goes in at Olympic Park
• Evelyn's garden under threat from development
• Benefits of Britain in Bloom revealed
• Island botanic garden seeks new owner
• Garlands for Olympic athletes
• Wild bees versus honeybees...
• Japanese rarities find haven in UK
• Grass-cutting trimmed in Royal Parks
• RHS eager to get schools growing
• 70 year old Dig for Victory box returned
• Tribute to RHS Tudor Rose winner

October

• First edition book marks Loire gardens visit
• Community boost for Welsh gardeners
• Government backing for community orchards
• Community spirit at Edinburgh botanic garden
• 'National arboretum' for Scotland
• Grow-your-own reaches new heights
• Lost generation of gardeners
• Scientific research centre under way at Wisley
• Chance to join our plant trials panels
• Joyce Stewart's book archive on sale
• Mystery apples in Cumbria

September

• Time to spruce up your opinion of conifers?
• Work to reopen Lindley Library may take awhile
• Record number of Britain in Bloom golds
• Community spirit at Edinburgh botanic garden
• Wilma Rittershausen
• Meadows could be new carbon sinks
• Nature sites burst with benefits
• Edinburgh champions world forests
• Government backing for community orchards
• Orange-red dahlia wins people's hearts
• Hyde Hall becomes a hedgehog haven
• Crystal Grotto regains its sparkle
• Daphne wins Australian Business Award
• New sculpture garden open at Threave
• Winner of Renault Modus crowned
• Best kept prison garden win for Thorn Cross
• Disease resistant potatoes a step closer
• Scotland declares rhododendron war

August

• Botanical illustrations gain royal recognition
• RHS calls for help in tackling pear fungus
• Jill Cowley
• AGM daffodils for peak performance
• Be a part of the ‘Big Wildlife Garden'
• Experiment to find trees of the future
• Hunt on for rare lacecap hydrangeas
• Welcoming the White Paper
• Chilli breeder produces new scorcher
• RHS President honoured

July

• Judges tour UK in finals of RHS Britain in Bloom
• BBC searches for talented young gardeners
• Video to inspire community gardening
• Wisley celebrates women in horticulture
• School gets its grown-ups gardening
• Hot debate at International Trials Conference
• RHS Awards recognise outstanding contributions to horticulture
• RHS Hampton Court's world of gardens
• RHS Annual General Meeting reveals achievements, investments and challenges
• Three Grow Your Own magazine wins for RHS

June

• £12,000 donation for LOROS garden appeal
• Experts highlight importance of plant trials
• Vote for your favourite rose
• London gardens turn greyer
• Lawns - love them or loathe them?
• Have you seen this caterpillar?
• Parts of England officially experiencing drought
• Schools' square metre gardens impress judges
• Community gardening just a click away
• A snapshot of gardening Britain
• A snapshot of gardening Britain
• Reward offered for new plants
• I-Spy series' new book on RHS Garden Wisley
• M&G garden donates to south London school

May

• Clare Austin iris field open days cancelled
• RHS Young Designer of the Year finalists announced
• Be water wise this spring
• 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
• Chat to top Chelsea designers
• 25th anniversary of RHS Plant Finder
• '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
• Mass tree planting launch for RHS Britain in Bloom
• Potatoes to be saved for posterity
• Schools Wheelbarrow Competition more popular than ever
• 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
• RHS library of 'oustanding national importance'
• Giant daffodil heralds spring at RHS Show Cardiff
• Triple whammy of disease strikes Scottish park
• Oak caterpillars defeat eradication effort
• Havens for hedgehogs
• Rare plants dug up – and saved

February

• Orchids - secret of their success
• Historic landscape revealed
• Last refuge for rarest plants
• Look out for the new RHS AGM logo
• Wine production may be under threat
• Cold winter boosts butterfly numbers
• Gardening courses relaunched by lecturer
• Taking gardening to new heights
• See the first signs of spring

January

• Crooked beak mystery
• Rare apple back from brink
• New role for Landscape Man
• Slugs and snails knocked off top spot
• Rare wildflower on brink of extinction
• New Year Honours for gardeners
• Museum garden restoration begins
• Archive takes garden back in time

2010

December

• Finalists for Britain in Bloom announced
• Chelsea small gardens unveiled
• RHS welcomes peat consultation
• Future doubt for 'renowned' plant collection
• Botanists target war zone
• Top honours for horticulture students
• Record price for Redouté rose
• Roman village discovered under parkland
• Free admission to National Botanic Garden of Wales
• Trees join war against flooding
• 'Ruined' coastline wins landscape title
• London gardens wanted
• Diamond Quest winner
• Question Time panel at RHS Lindley Hall

November

• Coping with snow and heavy ice
• New book on Wisley's wild flowers
• Wrap up your plants for winter
• Wildlife sites 'too small'
• Report highlights value of school gardening
• Wisley visitors break world record
• 2011 Chelsea show gardens confirmed
• Rare moss
• Sudden oak death on larch
• Exbury revives plant hunting
• 2011 show tickets now on sale
• Wildlife shuns luxury shelters
• Whatever the weather...
• Waxcap fungi discovery
• Survey finds clue to pollinators' decline
• Fungus forays into Norfolk
• Christmas comes early for parks
• Missing link found in daisy chain
• Thousands of saplings going free
• Recognition for green-fingered estates
• Aberglasney changes

October

• Royal opening at Harlow Carr
• RHS restructures for future growth
• Fuchsia gall mite is spreading
• Hedgerow survey needs your help
• Lottery pay out for urban parks
• School gardening gets new Regional advisor
• Where have all the conkers gone?
• Rosemoor's outgoing curator looks back at 22 years
• A basil by any other name...
• Melbourne's Chelsea first
• Photography winners
• Apples for containers
• RHS London Autumn Harvest Show highlights
• Interflora at the London Autumn Harvest Show

September

• One in five plant species at risk
• Judges praise young gardeners
• Double success for Scottish team
• BBC previews London Autumn Harvest Show
• Popular Cornish garden put on the market
• Stapeley palm house re-opens
• Euro honours for Trentham
• Fantastic response to grown-ups’ involvement
• Curator of Chelsea Physic Garden moves on
• A dahlia display to 'wow' visitors
• Renaissance for Devon garden
• Scientists speak out for fungi
• All about apples
• Lamb's ears to save the world?
• ‘Unprecedented’ threat to garden birds
• Butterflies bounce back
• Unique fruit collection under threat
• 'Replacement' elm identified
• Recognition for ‘challenging’ restoration
• Chris Beardshaw Mentoring deadline
• New RHS qualifications go live
• Prince's eco garden party
• Olympic flowers go for gold
• Heirloom veg set to return
• Risk of disease from potting compost very low
• Orchard classroom
• Essential gardeners' guide published

August

• Tickets on sale for RHS October show
• Storm fells 150-year-old horse chestnut
• Project to revive waterfall
• Tiny weevil used to fight invasive water weed
• Prison wins national garden competition
• Mawson's roses revived
• Renovated Wisley garden unveiled
• Plants chosen for 2011 RHS trials
• RHS garden on tourism award shortlist

July

• High in garden & allotment club membership
• Garden Museum seeks second intern
• Christopher Lloyd scholar named
• RHS curator opens garden for charity
• 'Flagship' park tackles climate change
• Nature conservation mapped
• New garden heritage degree
• Mycologist honoured
• Gardens meet art in Edinburgh
• First Royal Park Training allotment
• Former RHS President Sir Simon Hornby dies
• Wildlife garden wins children's competition
• A garden for a rainy day
• Get snapping and win £1,000
• Slug alert
• Join the big butterfly count
• Rediscover trees and shrubs
• The judges are coming!
• Newton's apple tree in zero gravity
• Gravetye back from the brink
• Tiny fern returns from extinction
• Charity's first woman President is announced
• £3.3 million RHS education centre launched

June

• Sweet peas put on a stunning show
• New look for RHS website
• School gardening boosts child development
• RHS advice on what to water, what to leave
• Grow England! rose named for England football team by the RHS
• Scotland tackles non-native invaders
• Earthworms 'eat seedlings'
• Ivy 'protects' house walls
• Professor John MacLeod
• Historic camellia house re-opens
• Knot garden designers wanted
• Record-breaking cherry tree discovered in Cumbria
• Beetle alert
• Hoisin leads her ducklings to Wisley's lake
• Bee populations recover
• University gardener wins title
• New powers to prevent garden-grabbing
• New Director General for RHS
• Peat mining draws to a close in Cumbrian bog
• Roger Aylett 1934 - 2010
• Public vote for garden restoration
• Threat to English oaks

May

• Waterlily back from the brink
• Hidden garden reveals treasures
• Gloucestershire arboretum extends collection
• Plantfinder 2010 captures horticultural zeitgeist
• Meconopsis go on trial
• Forest to transform urban wasteland
• New Director of Horticulture
• Tourist award for RHS flagship garden
• RHS creates Director of Horticulture role

April

• New president for plant conservation charity
• Duke of Bedford opens garden gates
• Botanic garden comes under review
• Pocket-sized chemicals advice
• Public drafted in to tackle invasive plants
• Two species a year dying out in UK
• Hundreds of new plants listed in latest edition
• Martin Robinson 1917 - 2010
• A host of daffodils at two-day show
• Boost for park restoration projects
• Variety is the spice of life
• English Heritage recognition for Kelmarsh
• Restoration begins at Victorian garden
• Princess's former garden reopens
• RHS releases iPhone app

March

• 'River of green' to herald the start of community gardening year
• Experimental veg garden takes shape
• Thousands of elm saplings to be planted
• Project to preserve exotic fruit and veg
• Centuries-old apple varieties in new orchard
• Vietnamese tree to be bred in UK
• Sat nav technology used to plot plant map
• Alan Titchmarsh visits Hyde Hall
• Honey fungus is number one plant disease
• Japanese knotweed: insect predator to be released
• Allotment campaigner, Geoff Stokes, dies
• Repairs costing millions needed at Kew Gardens
• Gardeners asked to go peat free
• Campaign to reduce invasive pond plants
• Rare Russian tulips on display for the first time
• Rhododendron gardens open for last season
• New cultivars boost daffodil collection

February

• Show highlights
• Show highlights
• Show highlights
• Accessibility
• Travelling to Cardiff
• Research into blackcurrants that like it mild
• Audit reveals poor state of British ponds
• Rare bulbs fetch £162 each
• Biodiversity improves as wetlands are restored
• Research into declining juniper numbers
• RHS awards for top exhibitors
• Wanted: Welsh vegetable seeds
• 'Extinct' plant flowers
• Thanksgiving service for Bonham Bazeley
• Grade I status for memorial gardens
• Hugh Ermen 1928 - 2009
• Thompson & Morgan buys Chempak

January

• Garden project splits Aberdeen
• Britain in Bloom finalists announced
• New lease of life for historic parks
• £9m grant aids castle garden's rebirth
• 'Miss Ruby' charms the Wisley visitors
• Neighbours save historic estate
• Students join seed saviours
• Pak choi on the RHS trials menu
• Twelve-mile hike saves school playing field
• Olympic Park contract awarded
• Parakeet protection lifted
• Webbs to take on Garden Organic retail business

2009

December

• Yorkshire garden wins tourism award
• Agatha Christie novels inspire unusual garden
• 10,000th school signs up to RHS Campaign for School Gardening
• Gardeners awarded People's Millions
• Tree planters wanted
• Princess Greta Sturdza
• Dame Kiri Te Kanawa to star at Wisley
• Top RHS awards for students
• Planting woods for hospitals
• Scottish primrose in decline
• Paperbark maple under threat
• New trainee for RHS Recommended Garden
• Chilli is so hot it gets a dictionary listing
• Climate change puts trees 'under stress'
• RHS President to retire in July
• M&G to sponsor RHS Chelsea Flower Show
• A Celebration of the life of Fred Whitsey VMH

November

• Great British Garden Competition winners announced
• Robert (Robin) Compton VMH
• Project to study changing bee habits
• Huge lottery cash handout
• The best plants for bugs
• Wasp support in war on whitefly
• Britain's largest winter garden opens
• Castle opts for biomass boiler

October

• Consumers urged to buy British produce
• Lucky find for garden historian
• Ron Watts
• 'Smelly' plants early warning
• Scientists unravel DNA puzzle
• Edinburgh builds Gateway to understanding
• Rare cultivars rediscovered
• Applications open for design scholarship

September

• Pamela Helen Schwerdt AHRHS, VMH, MBE
• Wild ancestors of favourite plants under threat
• Britain in Bloom winners announced
• Super-ant arrives in UK
• Go wild about gardening