Events
Highlights BBC Gardeners’ World Spring Fair 2025
In its fifth year, the 2025 BBC Gardeners’ World Spring Fair promises a celebration of all things gardening, growing, food and drink.
Exhibitions
Review: ‘SOIL – The World At Our Feet’
Opening this week, ‘SOIL’ celebrates and explores the magic of soil, interpreted through a diverse range of voices of artists, scientists, gardeners and activists.
Environment
Saving Coton Orchard
Home to 100-year old specimens, the 60 acre Coton Orchard, the largest traditional orchard in Cambridgeshire and 8th largest in the country is at risk of becoming a new bus lane.
Business
Restaurant trends for 2025
Compiled by the Sustainable Restaurant Association, an intriguing overview of what we can expect from restaurants in 2025 which may provide inspiration for businesses in our sector offering food & beverage services.
Environment
Fungi translocation to restore woodlands
A nature restoration experiment, Forestry England is moving soil rich in vital fungi from an ancient woodland to a newly planted site in North Yorkshire.
Environment
Biodiversity eDNA study across forests in the UK
A comprehensive biodiversity study is being conducted by means of innovative eDNA Technology across 250,000 hectares of the UK’s forests to ascertain the condition of nature and the variety of wildlife in our forests.
Awards
2024 GIMA Award winners
The winners of the 2024 GIMA Awards have been announced, recognising innovation, performance and contribution the garden retail sector by the garden sector suppliers and manufacturers.
Events
Nick Bailey to design the headline BBC Gardeners’ World Live 2025 show garden
BBC Gardeners’ World launches its 2025 events calendar with news that Nick Bailey will be designing the headline Show Garden at BBC Gardeners’ World Live 2025.
Research
Survey reveals majority of Kew staff are against the Herbarium move
The results of the Herbarium Impact Survey for staff of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, confirm that the majority of respondents are not in favour of the move to Thames Valley Science Park.
Business
Sainsbury’s first UK supermarket to launch peat-free mushrooms
The supermarket chain is the first to offer their customers peat-free grown, White Closed Cup and White Baby Button mushroom variants.
Events
UK Fungus Day 2024
UK Fungus Day brings together fungus experts, enthusiasts and beginners to explore and enjoy the wonders of the Fungal Kingdom
Exhibitions
SOIL: The world at your feet
Groundbreaking exhibition at Somerset House, unearthing soil’s vital role in the planet’s future.
Business
Highlights Glee 2024
A walk through our highlights of Glee 2024, held at the NEC in Birmingham.
Environment
North American native, Plane Lace Bug sighted in London
The Forestry Commission has confirmed sightings of the Platanus lace bug (Corythucha ciliata) in the UK for the first time since 2006.
Plants
Rare Ghost Orchid discovered in the UK
Britain’s rarest and most enigmatic plant, the Ghost Orchid (Epipogium aphyllum) has been discovered flowering in England.
Careers
Youth Takeover Day: RHS Nature & Nurture Festival
To celebrate International YouthDay, the RHS is hosting a Youth Takeover Day with the aim for the next generation to explore horticulture career paths.
Environment
Pioneering mushroom farm at Blenheim estate
Work has begun on a pioneering mushroom farm on the Blenheim Estate to grow gourmet mushrooms on spawn-inoculated substrate created from organic waste from Blenheim Palace.
Plants
More than 50% of Kew’s trees at risk from effects of climate change
New report states that more than half of their 11,000 trees are at risk by 2090, due to the effects of climate change.
Events
BBC Gardeners’ World Autumn Fair returns to Audley End
Run in association with English Heritage, the BBC Gardeners’ World Autumn Fair, returns to Audley End House and Gardens in Saffron Walden in Essex.
RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival
The eye-catchers of the 2024 RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival
There is ample inspiration to be found at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival, from small planting pockets to large show gardens, specialist nursery exhibits and sustainable gardening inspiration throughout – herewith our 2024 highlights.
