Gardening News Archives
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28.01.12: Five Lobelias Receive RHS Award
The RHS has bestowed its Award of Garden Merit on five Lobelias out of a total of over 50 entered into trials in 2011.
21.01.12: Slugs and Snails Top the RHS Pests List
Slugs and snails are the most common garden pests, damaging a wide variety of plants. It's hardly surprising then that they top the RHS' list of the top 10 garden pests.
29.12.11: 2012 RHS Chelsea Show Gardens Confirmed
18 show gardens have been shortlisted for the 2012 RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
23.11.11: World's First Night Flowering Orchid Discovered
Botanists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis have described the first night-flowering orchid known to science.
26.10.11: PlantAdvice Debut Video on Videojug
George, our Gardening Guru makes his first video appearance on Videojug.
25.10.11: Beat the Cold
With weather forecasters warning that the UK may suffer from the coldest Winter in decades the Royal Horticultural Society is advising gardeners to get prepared.
25.10.11: Toad Appeal
The Royal Horticultural Society and The Wildlife Trusts are asking bonfire night celebrators to look out for toads and frogs before they light their fires.
11.10.11: Rare Plant Flowers
A rare North American flower from the tea plant family is flowering at RHS Garden Wisley. The plant, Franklinia alatamaha, is believed to be extinct in the wild but a few gardens, including Wisley, have a small number of plants. Wisley is one of the few that seems to have conditions that encourage it to flower.
11.10.11: Don't be Disappointed about the size of your Pumpkins this Halloween
Leading gardening charity explains why pumpkins are smaller than usual this year.
27.09.11: 2011 Chelsea New Plant of the Year
Anemone 'Wild Swan' is the Chelsea Flower Show's plant of the year for 2011.
