Events
The Secrets of a Chelsea Garden with Tom Stuart-Smith & Peter Clay
A look behind the scenes as to what it takes to create a show garden for RHS Chelsea with Tom Stuart-Smith and Peter Clay, the founder of Crocus.
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.
Awards
Grass Roots Oldham wins RHS & BBC The One Show’s Growing Together Award
Greater Manchester’s Grass Roots Oldham, has won the RHS and BBC The One Show’s Growing Together Award 2024 for Community Gardening which celebrates the transformative impact of growing together.
Gardens
The history of the Earth brought to life in the new gardens at the Natural History Museum
Complete with new dinosaur, the Natural History Museum has transformed their five-acre gardens for big and small explorers in the heart of London, as part of its Urban Nature Project.
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Environment
Supporting seed supply for the nation’s forests
The Forestry Commission is investing in the private and public sector to ensure resilient, diverse, and bio-secure supply of tree seed to meet 2050 (16.5% cover) planting targets.
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024
Tom Stuart-Smith returns to RHS Chelsea
The renowned landscape architect and garden designer will design the ‘National Garden Scheme Garden’ for the 2024 RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Research
Researchers discover origins of the iconic baobab tree
New research reveals the majestic Baobab’s origins in Madagascar and long-distance dispersals to Africa and Australia.
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024
Muscular Dystrophy UK – Forest Bathing Garden
A garden offering an immersive forest bathing experience featuring more than fifty birch trees underplanted with 4,000 richly textured plants.
Charity
RHS celebrates 60 years of Britain in Bloom
2024 marks the 60th anniversary of Britain in Bloom, which over the years has continued to bring people together, forged life-long relationships and enriched lives.
Gardens
The Royal Parks collaborate with Sir Quentin Blake
The world-famous illustrator, best known for illustrating Roald Dahl’s books, has partnered with The Royal Parks charity to create illustrations in iconic London parks.
People
Tom Stuart-Smith receives much deserved OBE
The landscape architect and garden designer received his OBE for services to landscape architecture at Windsor Castle yesterday.
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024
Coming Full Circle: Tom Stuart-Smith
An update on the National Garden Scheme 2024 RHS Chelsea Flower Show Garden by the designer, Tom-Stuart Smith.
Charity
Christopher Woodward to undertake sponsored swim to raise funds for new London park
Garden Museum Director, Christopher Woodward to swim 100km in the Peloponnese islands of Greece, to help transform the 5.3 acres adjacent to the museum into a new public park.
Natural Capital
BNG market drive: Biodiversity as an asset class
Biodiversity markets offer a distinctive avenue to expedite funding for conservation while offering a financial incentive for preserving and restoring natural ecosystems.
Innovation
AI drones able to identify botrytis
Researchers from Unmanned Valley, Greenport DB, and NL Space Campus have successfully developed an AI model that enables drones to identify botrytis.
Gardens
Tom Stuart-Smith to revive Trentham’s Italian Garden as part of the 20th Anniversary plans
The unique, 186-acre historic parkland garden will undergo a further series of ambitious garden development plans, part of a programme of events marking the 20th anniversary of the Gardens’ re-opening.
Charity
Brave wingwalkers raise funds for Greenfingers
In a heartwarming show of courage and generosity, four fearless individuals took to the skies this week to raise funds for Greenfingers Charity by completing a daring wingwalk.
Environment
Japanese, Miyawaki tree planting method delivers higher survival rates at lower costs
Inspired by a Japanese botantist, trials of a Miyawaki urban tree planting method has revealed higher survival rates than standard approaches, and hence proved more cost-effective to establish trees.
Events
No Chelsea Fringe Festival in 2024
With the founder-director Tim Richardson stepping down, the team have decided to suspend the festival for the foreseeable future in order to focus on other work and projects.
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Carbon plantation
Sneaky peak into large-scale plantation of hybrid Paulownia trees planted to absorb 60 tonnes of CO2 per hectare per year.