Gardens
Scottish gardens open for visitors in 2025
Over 400 gardens, including cinematic landscapes, kitchen gardens, urban gems and special green spaces will be opening in 2025 for Scotland’s Gardens Scheme.
Plants
Celebrating the start of the tulip season
Celebrated this weekend in Amsterdam, National Tulip Day hailed the start of the new tulip season.
Worth a read
New era of garden visits
When it comes to visiting gardens, we seem to be on the fringes of a new era of more relaxed, exclusive and quirky garden tours.
Gardens
Fifteen new gardens become RHS Partner Gardens
With gardens across the UK, France and Italy, fifteen unique gardens become Royal Horticultural Society Partner Gardens in 2025.
Exhibitions
Garden Futures Exhibition: Designing with Nature
Initially held at the Vitra Design Museum, the Garden Futures exhibition in Rotterdam explores the history and future of the modern garden.
Gardens
Stockton Bury Gardens: Finalist in the 2024 Visit Herefordshire Tourism Awards
Amongst 62 Herefordshire based businesses, Stockton Bury Gardens has been shortlisted for a Visit Herefordshire Tourism Award, celebrating the best of county’s tourism sector.
Gardens
Plans submitted for Birmingham Botanical Gardens renovation project
Architecture practice Howells has submitted proposals for the restoration of the Grade II* listed Birmingham Botanical Gardens, home to more than 10,000 botanic species.
Events
RHS Glow for the festive season
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) will be celebrating the festive season with RHS Glow, festively illuminating its five iconic gardens.
Environment
Cumbria Wildlife Trust seeks public assistance to buy Skiddaw Forest
The Cumbria Wildlife Trust announced the launch of major public appeal to help purchase Skiddaw Forest, including the summit of Skiddaw.
Environment
Urban ecosystem services: Medellín’s cooling green corridors
To reduce the city’s significant urban heat island effect and improve urban biodiversity, Medellín in Columbia created thirty interconnected green corridors which run throughout the city.
Plants
World record sized Titan Arum in Meise Botanic Garden
Belgium’s Meise Botanic Garden is celebrating the world’s largest titan arum in bloom.
Design
Designed by Andy Sturgeon, the Mediterranean garden at Beningbrough Hall officially opened
The new, future-proofed for changing climate, Mediterranean garden at the National Trust’s Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire has officially opened.
Gardens
Royal Pavilion garden plans approved
The planning application to restore the Royal Pavilion Garden to Regency glory has been approved by Brighton & Hove City Council.
Environment
Scotland’s Flow Country becomes world’s first peatland UNESCO World Heritage site
The Flow Country has become a UNESCO World Heritage Site, joining a very exclusive list of natural wonders, including the Grand Canyon and the Great Barrier Reef.
Tourism
Galloway confirmed preferred location for Scotland’s next National Park
Galloway has been confirmed as the proposed location for Scotland’s third National Park.
Gardens
Botanical Garden Leiden opens new Mediterranean garden
The oldest botanical garden in the Netherlands, Hortus Botanicus Leiden has opened their new climate resistant, sustainable and water-efficient, Mediterranean garden.
Tourism
Silver jubilee London Open Gardens celebratory events
Marking its silver jubilee, London Open Gardens are celebrating with a special set of guided walks and cycle tours for garden lovers, history buffs and the curious.
Tourism
Floral Feasts for Chelsea in Bloom
London’s flower festival, Chelsea in Bloom, returns with ‘Floral Feasts’ as the 2024 theme.
Charity
Horatio’s Garden is the official charity for Belgravia in Bloom
Back for it’s ninth year, the floral festival in London’s Belgravia names Horatio’s Garden as their official charity partner for 2024.
Education
The Newt & RHS: Growing a new generation of gardeners
2024 marks The Newt in Somerset’s third year as headline sponsor of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, supporting the RHS in their mission to encourage and improve the practice of horticulture.