Environment

swift, european swift,

Wildlife

RHS and RSPB unite to champion Swifts

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is partnering with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) to create a show garden at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025.

Small hedgehog

Products

Vale Wildlife Hospital launches Hedgehog Food

Part of their ‘Happy Hedgehogs, Healthy Gardens’ campaign, Vale Wildlife Hospital launched Vale’s Hedgehog Food, designed to provide essential nutrients for hedgehogs.

Biodiversity Net Gain Map hosted by the Wildlife Trusts

Natural Capital

Interactive Biodiversity Net Gain map

Hosted by the Wildlife Trusts, the new map visualises England’s registered off-site Biodiversity Net Gain delivery sites.

Butterfly on grass

Wildlife

Next level No Mow May

Butterfly Conservation is campaigning for people to take No Mow May to the next level and pledge to leave grass to grow long from April to September.

A hedgehog in the grass looking for food

Wildlife

Hedgehog Awareness Week 2025

For this year’s Hedgehog Awareness Week, the British Hedgehog Preservation Society is asking people to ‘give hedgehogs the edge’.

Matthew Trevelyan dressed in colossal curlew costume for his 53 mile walk to raise awareness of the bird's decline.

Local Heroes

For the plight of Curlews

Wearing an enormous Curlew costume, Matthew Trevelyan walked 53 miles to raise awareness and funds for the endangered bird.

Image towards a village overlooking fields planted with grain in the Oxfordshire countryside

Worth a read

A plea for the protection of our surroundings

In a thought provoking article for Scribehound Gardening, Alan Titchmarsh asks why if we are justifiably entitled to public services such as energy is the beauty of our surroundings not part of that birthright?

Designs for Kew Gardens' new Carbon Garden

Environment

The Carbon Garden at Kew

In July, Kew Gardens will unveil the Carbon Garden showcasing the vital role plants and fungi play in climate change and highlights the urgency of the climate crisis.

New housing developments

Regulation

BNG could unlock support for developments

Survey by biodiversity tech start-up, Joe’s Blooms suggests that Biodiversity Net Gain rules could be key to unlocking NIMBY support for housebuilding.

Selection of bare root plants supplied by Peter Nyssen

Business

Back to bare roots: Perennial plants

To address the issue of plastic, the industry has introduced recycled, recyclable plant pots, wool or coir but some, such as Peter Nyssen, have switched to selling field grown, bare root perennials – we asked them for details.