Plants
Sweet chestnut crowned Tree of the Year
480-year-old sweet chestnut in Acton Park, Wrexham is crowned Tree of the Year in the Woodland Trust competition
Events
Inaugural Winter Flowers Week
The Garden Museum will host the first Winter Flowers Week, a celebration of seasonal flowers and foliage through immersive festive installations.
Environment
Three in four undescribed plants threatened with extinction
RGB Kew’s “State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2023” report lays out the state of global biodiversity and highlights critical knowledge gaps.
Conferences
Call for arboricultural papers
Arboricultural Association is inviting submissions of papers relevant to the arboricultural profession for the 2024 conference.
Business
RHS Bluewater shop open
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has opened its first standalone shop at Bluewater Shopping Centre in Kent.
On Instagram
Carbon plantation
Sneaky peak into large-scale plantation of hybrid Paulownia trees planted to absorb 60 tonnes of CO2 per hectare per year.
Plants
Fewer but sweeter British apples in 2023
According to the Royal Horticultural Society, apple harvest volumes are smaller, but the fruit is sweeter in taste.
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The value of our natural capital
Comprehensive new report on the economic, environmental and social value of plants based on extensive consumer behaviour research.
Plants
New “super” apple of the future
Andreas Peil, Group Leader Pome Fruit Breeding at the Julius Kühn Institute (JKI), has bred the new PIA41 in Dresden, Germany.
Business
Garden design on Paris catwalk
Delicate meadow runway designed by Luciano Giubbilei for the Hermès Spring/Summer 2024 show at Paris Fashion Week.
Environment
Senseless vandalism of the worst kind
Iconic Sycamore Gap tree, which stood for 300 years alongside Hadrian’s Wall, was discovered cut down this morning.
Product Launch
Miscanthus sinensis ‘Boucle’
Bred in Poland, the new miscanthus has unique, crimped inflorescences of intense crimson colour.
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UK faces tree shortage
In her column Digging Deeper, Sally Nex warns gardeners of years of tree shortages due to soaring demand.
Careers
Government gives £1 million boost to Forestry skills training
Funding has been extended to cover new courses in arboriculture, which cover the care, management and safety of amenity trees.
Product Launch
New resistant horse chestnut cultivar
Van den Berk launched Aesculus hippocastanum Treevolution ‘Cyrilles Clean’ PBR which is reportedly virtually resistant to the chestnut leaf-miner moth.
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Arboreal eye candy
Clive Nichols has been set loose in the New Wood tree nursery in the rolling hills of South Hams in Devon.
Product Launch
Knoll Gardens launches new Panicum
Panicum ‘Merlot’, like many a fine wine of the same name, has been some years in the making.
Plants
International award winning lawn art
Tim Sanken of the USA wins the 2023 Allett lawn stripes competition. The 2022 competition was won by Edward Aitken of Cornbury House (pictured).
Plants
Lost carnivores return to Winmarleigh Moss
Carnivorous sundews plants have been reintroduced to Winmarleigh Moss in Lancashire.
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Flowering plants stronger than dinosaurs
Researchers have found that flowering plants escaped unscathed from the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.