Gardens
2025 Sweet Pea Season at Easton Walled Gardens
Highly scented, heritage, modern to trial varieties, Easton Walled Gardens grow around 40 sweet pea varieties, all of which are on show for their annual Sweet Pea Season.
Gardens
Barnsdale Gardens closure threatened by solar farm
Geoff Hamilton’s Barnsdale Gardens seeks support to stop a proposed solar farm, which could otherwise signal closure of the gardens.
Collaboration
Characters from Guess How Much I Love You™ come to life in RHS Gardens
RHS Gardens partner with Walker Books for the 30th anniversary of Guess How Much I Love You™, the children’s book by Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram.
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.
Design
New garden for Corpus Christi College Cambridge, designed by Jo Thompson
Landscape and garden designer, Jo Thompson has been commissioned to revitalise the gardens at Mogford Lodge at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
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
RHS gardening predictions for 2025
Based on member enquiries, the Royal Horticultural Society has published its gardening predictions for the new year, bringing hope for a revival of the front garden.
Gardens
Harris Bugg Studio appointed to revitalise Barbican Conservatory
Landscape designers Harris Bugg Studio have been appointed to revitalise the planting of the remarkable, eco-brutalist design of the iconic Barbican Conservatory
By the bye
Festive lawn competition
The Lawn Association has launched a festive competition to celebrate the lawn in December and January.
Charity
Botanical gardens amongst the £16.7 million grant recipients of the Julia Rausing Trust
Charitable fund, the Julia Rausing Trust has awarded £16.7 million in heritage grants to UK cathedrals, botanic gardens, and museums and galleries
Charity
Friends of Westonbirt Arboretum granted £190,000 for community project
The Julia Rausing Trust has awarded the Friends of Westonbirt Arboretum a £190,000 grant to invest in a community-led tree planting project
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.
Charity
Record National Garden Scheme donations in 2024
2024 proved to be another landmark year for the National Garden Scheme with the charity donating a record £3,501,227 to nursing and health beneficiaries from this year’s garden opening season.
Gardens
New culinary venture, the Cordia Collective to open at Borde Hill in 2025
Green Michelin star chef, Chantelle Nicholson will be opening the Cordia Collective within the Grade II listed country estate, Borde Hill.
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
Green Allotments: win a community allotment site
The charity, Green Allotments has pledged to buy and set up new allotment sites, at low rents for two fortunate communities.
Gardens
National Garden Scheme early garden openers for 2025
Looking towards the 2025 gardening season, the National Garden Scheme has announced the dates of their early garden openers.
Gardens
The Gardens Trust becomes National Trust Appointing Body
The Gardens Trust is now an official Appointing Body to the National Trust council to support the work of the Trust in caring for historic parks and gardens and championing their protection.
Gardens
Green Island Gardens is the winner of the RHS Partner Garden of the Year Award 2024
The Royal Horticultural Society announced that Green Island Gardens, a 20-acre garden near Colchester is the overall winner of the RHS Partner Garden of the Year Award 2024.
Design
Elemental: green design audit tool
Developed by Nicholsons in association with the Society of Garden Designers, the British Association of Landscape Industries and the Royal Horticultural Society, ‘Elemental’, the green design audit tool will be available to garden and landscape designers in spring 2025.