Smelly fungus found at RHS Rosemoor
A rare Clathrus archeri, more commonly known as ‘Octopus Stinkhorn’, fungus has been found by one of the volunteers working deep in the shrubbery at RHS Garden Rosemoor, and it is not a pretty sight, or smell!
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30 June 2008
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27 June 2008
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NEW RHS member window stickers
The RHS has launched a new campaign to raise the profile of RHS membership and the essential support it provides to enable our charitable work to continue.
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18 June 2008
Contaminated manure causes abnormal veg growth
Farmyard manure contaminated with weedkiller residue is causing abnormal growth of vegetable crops throughout the country.
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17 June 2008
Potato blight warning
Veg gardeners should be vigilant. Two of the contributors to My Garden - our online community for gardeners - have received potato blight warnings that conditions are right for blight outbreaks.
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12 June 2008
RHS calls for tax cut on ornamental plants and seeds
The RHS has launched a petition calling for VAT on all ornamental plants and seeds to be reduced from 17.5 percent to 5 percent, bringing them in line with other ‘green’ goods identified by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Find out more and sign the online petition
11 June 2008
NCCPG hits 30
The National Council for the Conservation of Plants & Gardens celebrates its 30th birthday this year. Some of the plants in the Council's National Plant Collections also celebrate anniversaries this year.
Find out more about the anniversaries
10 June 2008
Wisley student wins 2008 Young Horticulturist of the Year
Patrick Wiltshire, a student from RHS Garden Wisley has taken first place in a national competition winning a £2000 travel bursary and taking the title of Young Horticulturist of the Year.
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Report sightings of pests to the RHS
The RHS is appealing to gardeners around the country to be on the look-out for four invasive, non-native pests as part of its research into the biology of red lily beetle, rosemary beetle, berberis sawfly and hemerocallis gall midge.
Find out more about the research projects
Highlights from the Malvern Spring Gardening Show 2008
Here are some of the highlights from the Malvern Spring Gardening Show held 8-11 May 2008.
Read about the highlights
Action plan to eradicate oak processionary moth
The Forestry Commission and local authorities have joined forces to try and eradicate oak processionary moths from west and south-west London. First found in 2006, oak processionary caterpillars - the larval form of the moth - have started hatching this autumn from eggs laid on oak trees last autumn.
Find out more about the action plan
Postcards from the Park
Postcards from the Park, a photography competition for people to capture what they love most about their public park, is now open for entries.
Find out more about Postcards from the Park
Future of organic garden secured
It’s been an uncertain couple of months for Garden Organic Yalding in Kent following the announcement in March that it was to close. It has now been taken over by Maro Foods, which operates a local food retail and vegetable box scheme in nearby Maidstone and will open to the public again on 24 May.
Find out more about the future of the garden
Historic gardens saved
The historic gardens of Easton Lodge, near Braintree in Essex, will stay open thanks to the success of an appeal to riase £25,000.
Find out more about the appeal to save the gardens
New alpine house opens at Wisley
The new alpine house at Wisley has now opened. It replaces the old wooden house which stood on the same site for over 20 years. The new alpine house is home to the garden's colourful collections of choice alpines.
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Record number of schools grow potatoes
Record numbers of school children are growing potatoes in 2008 thanks to an initiative by the Potato Council.
Find out more about the Potato Council programme
Houghton Hall wins 2007 Garden of the Year
The gardens of Houghton Hall in Norfolk have been named as the 2007 Garden of the Year in a competition sponsored by the Historic Houses Association and Christies.
Find out more about Houghton Hall winning the competition
Giant fruit and fungi at Wisley
Visitors to Wisley are in for a surprise this year with the arrival of a 1.8m (6ft) high pear, giant apple and a 2.1m (7ft) tall mushroom plus two 3m (10ft) high ‘flying helicopter’ maple (acer) seeds; they're all made from willow.
Find out more about the giant fruit and fungi
A typical British summer
The coming summer is expected to be a 'typical British summer', according to long-range forecasts. Summer temperatures across the UK are more likely to be warmer than average and rainfall near or above average for the three months of summer.
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Deep in the heart of Glasgow...
Debbie Hindle and Ken Ross’s beautiful walled tenement garden is sandwiched between an office car park and another walled garden in the angle of two rows of Victorian tenements.
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Join My Garden
The RHS has launched My Garden, our online community for gardeners.
Find out more about My Garden - and join in
RHS Floral Celebration at the Inner Temple
The Royal Horticultural Society is hosting a special event at the Inner Temple, London, that will transform the gardens and provide a horticultural haven for visitors. It takes place from 11-13 September.
Find out more about the RHS Floral Celebration at the Inner Temple
Grow and cook your own at Hampton Court
There’s a fresh new feel to this year’s Hampton Court Palace Flower Show with the delicious new fruit and vegetable themed feature, Growing Tastes.
Find out more about Growing Tastes
Sir John St Aubyn’s herbarium
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery is undertaking a large project on a collection previously owned by Sir John St Aubyn, the 5th Baronet.
Find out more about the collection
Cherrybank closes
Cherrybank Gardens in Perth, home to a National Collection of Ericas and an RHS Recommended Garden, was closed on 31 March.
Find out more about the closure
Great Dixter gets lottery funding
The Heritage Lottery Fund has earmarked more than £4 million towards a £7 million project to safeguard the future of Great Dixter, internationally famed for its garden and its Grade 1-listed timber-framed house, for the continued enjoyment of the nation.
Find out more about Great Dixter
Grow your own veg and save money
Gardeners are being encouraged to grow their own veg and save money with the launch of this year's RHS Grow Your Own Veg campaign sponsored by NS&I.
Read more about the campaign
Find out how to grow your own veg
Subscribe to our monthly e-mail veg newsletters and receive exclusive information, offers and be able to take part in great competitions.
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Nigel Slater, TV cook, bestselling cookery author and food columnist for The Observer, has joined the RHS grow your own veg campaign.
In a new series that starts in the RHS magazine, The Garden in the May issue, and on RHS Online in late April, Nigel enthuses about growing veg at home.
Nigel kickstarts his new series on food from the garden
Funding relief for the National Botanic Garden of Wales
The National Botanic Garden of Wales is to benefit from raft of financial measures, including a grant to pay off a £1.9 million overdraft, to enable it to further develop its horticultural and educational resources.
Who drew Charles Darwin?
The search is on for the mystery artist of a never-seen-before caricature of Charles Darwin found in the vaults of the RHS Lindley Library.
Welsh rugby celebrates with its own daffodil
Welsh Rugby has received a unique gift from the Royal Horticultural Society - a new daffodil to be named ‘Undeb Rygbi Cymru’ in its honour.
Find out more about the new daffodil
It was launched at the RHS Spring Flower Show, Cardiff.
RHS Top 10 pests 2007
The Entomology team at RHS Wisley has released its annual list of Top 10 problematic insects and other garden pests, following 12 months of enquiries from RHS members.
RHS shows go even greener
The RHS has announced new measures, including the banning of sale of several products, to improve the environmental credentials of its shows.
2008 RHS Photographic Competition
The RHS Photographic Competition is open for 2008, with two new categories. The first is for budding, young photographers entitled ‘In the Garden’ and carries the accolade of becoming the RHS Young Photographer of the Year. The second is for aspiring card designers of all ages, in the form of The Medici Award, accompanied by the ultimate prize of seeing your photograph sold as a greeting card across the UK.
Gardening in a changing climate
The climate is changing and this could have a huge effect on gardens and gardeners in the UK. We have brought together all the latest findings, have asked numerous people for their thoughts and are providing advice for gardeners who may have to cope with changing conditions. We also want you to join in with the discussion so we can see exactly what is happening to plants and gardens.
RHS online radish trial 2008
We are trialling a selection of radish cultivars at Wisley in 2008 and have asked RHS Online visitors to join in at home.