Volume 134
Part 3
To celebrate the coming season, this month Nigel Colborn suggests some spring-flowering Award of Garden Merit shrubs, RHS Garden Wisley Curator and magnolia expert Jim Gardiner profiles selections for medium to larger gardens, while Stephen Lacey recommends his favourite spring gardens.
This year is the 200th birthday of cooking apple ‘Bramley’s Seedling’, an iconic fruit of Britain. Joan Morgan of the Society’s Fruit Trials Sub-Committee tells its story and puts it in context of other ‘cookers’. Fruit, like so many plants, need bees for pollination, but all is not well in the honeybee world. Gardeners can do much to help. Philippa O’Brien previews how. Without bees and other pollinators human life might grind to a halt – a sobering thought, as we marvel at the zest of spring.
Ian Hodgson, Editor
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