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.
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
Planning permission approved for Lambeth Green
Lambeth Council approved the application for the Garden Museum’s new Lambeth Green park project, with pavilion designed by Mary Duggan Architects in walled garden by Dan Pearson.
Awards
The Society of Garden Designers has announced the SGD Awards shortlisted finalists
This year’s shortlist for the Society of Garden Designers (SGD) Awards features 30 exceptional projects across 14 categories, each demonstrating creativity, innovation, and sustainable design.
Plants
Downderry’s National Plant Collection of Rosemary reinstated at Great Comp Garden
Salvia expert and Curator of Great Comp Garden, William Dyson is the new custodian of the National Plant Collection of Salvia rosmarinus created by Dr Simon Charlesworth and his wife Dawn .
Natural Capital
The provision of gardens needs to be central to UK housebuilding targets, says the RHS
The Royal Horticultural Society is calling for a review of the Biodiversity Net Gain 4.0 metric, updated planning guidelines to require cultivated landscapes, and garden masterplans for urban areas.
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.
Worth a read
Ukraine’s Botanical Gardens at risk
Times are very difficult for Ukraine’s Botanical Gardens, where in addition to the atrocious conditions of war, the gardens are at the mercy of the country’s destroyed energy infrastructure.
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
Horatio’s Garden Stoke Mandeville Open Day
In support of the National Garden Scheme, Horatio’s Garden Stoke Mandeville, the private restorative garden sanctuary will be open on Saturday 28th of September.
Charity
Applications for 2025 NGS Community Garden Grants open 9th of September
The National Garden Scheme (NGS) will open applications for its popular Community Garden Grants programme next week.
Gardens
Horatio’s Garden Scotland Open Day for Scotland’s Gardens Scheme
Horatio’s Garden Scotland, the private garden for people affected by spinal injury, is opening in support of Scotland’s Gardens Scheme.
Events
Working with Earth, Architecture & Landscape Symposium hosted by Tom Stuart Smith Studio
Inaugural Symposium hosted by the Tom Stuart Smith Studio in the Apple House at Serge Hill in Hertfordshire.
