Gardening News Archives
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![Andy Sturgeon's New English Garden at Chelsea Andy Sturgeon's New English Garden at Chelsea](/photos/news/94af3b7727f722122f85a32ce18f91a0.jpg)
07.05.12: Andy Sturgeon's New English Garden at Chelsea
Award-winning garden designer Andy Sturgeon returns to the Chelsea Flower Show with an Arts and Crafts inspired garden.
![How to Control Slugs and Snails How to Control Slugs and Snails](/photos/news/74deb5002a0a40170b9b462fb57956f0.jpg)
01.03.12: How to Control Slugs and Snails
Inventor of the slugbell; Michael Messina gives some expert advice on combating these common garden pests.
![Five Lobelias Receive RHS Award Five Lobelias Receive RHS Award](/photos/news/237e349acade66071192b0cb2672342b.jpg)
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.
![Slugs and Snails Top the RHS Pests List Slugs and Snails Top the RHS Pests List](/photos/news/ab3941c8a6b2df6758204bc5a6ad6376.jpg)
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.
![2012 RHS Chelsea Show Gardens Confirmed 2012 RHS Chelsea Show Gardens Confirmed](/photos/news/05629c86fb31d592ff7ec05778dc19b1.jpg)
29.12.11: 2012 RHS Chelsea Show Gardens Confirmed
18 show gardens have been shortlisted for the 2012 RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
![World's First Night Flowering Orchid Discovered World's First Night Flowering Orchid Discovered](/photos/news/cf8d6c41d10942f473aee63eeed57cf5.jpg)
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.
![Beat the Cold Beat the Cold](/photos/news/042c3208f1500e7ee69d5b2e55ea700c.jpg)
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.
![Toad Appeal Toad Appeal](/photos/news/0be8efa7fe4780ab85091857c79857ce.jpg)
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.
![Don't be Disappointed about the size of your Pumpkins this Halloween Don't be Disappointed about the size of your Pumpkins this Halloween](/photos/news/68a7e344fd936cc373821cc2a09edb2b.jpg)
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.