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5 November 2008
Professional floristry competition at Chelsea 2009
A new professional floristry competition is being launched at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2009. The new competition, in association with the British Florist Association, takes place at the show in May and culminates in the announcement of the ‘Chelsea Florist of the Year’ and the ‘Young Chelsea Florist of the Year’..
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5 November 2008
London building turns green
Landscapers have planted the largest green wall in Britain, at the new Leamouth Peninsula development in London's Docklands.
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20 October 2008
Tide turns against water primrose
An escapee from garden ponds, which is clogging up Britain's waterways, may be about to join the government's list of illegal aliens - invasive non-native plant species that can't be introduced to the wild without a licence.
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20 October 2008
Get your hands on RHS images
Some of the images held in RHS collections are now available to the public. A range of 250 has been selected for reproduction as high-quality prints and canvases.
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14 October 2008
New broom for East Lambrook Manor
The new owner of East Lambrook Manor in Somerset, former home of Margery Fish, has said he will keep the garden open to the public.
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14 October 2008
Cherrybank re-opens
The Bell’s Cherrybank Garden in Perth is to re-open with free access to the public.
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14 October 2008
Trentham gardeners face anxious wait
Gardeners at the Trentham Estate, Staffordshire, face an anxious month after being told they all face possible redundancy.
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14 October 2008
Wisley passes taste test
Top chef Raymond Blanc visited RHS Garden Wisley in a quest to find the best fruit in the country to grow in a new organic orchard at his Michelin-starred restaurant, Le Manoir Aux Quat’ Saisons.
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8 October 2008
RHS London Flower Shows: New year, new look!
The RHS London Flower Shows are undergoing some exciting new developments, and from 2009 there will be a whole new look to these seasonal spectacles.
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7 October 2008
Front gardens get more protection from concrete
The RHS welcomes new Government legislation which will make it more difficult for homeowners to concrete or pave over front gardens.
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3 October 2008
Britain in Bloom on radio
The importance of the RHS Britain in Bloom competition to hundreds of communities is revealed in a series of programmes, 'Wars of the Roses', being aired on BBC Radio 4. The first of the four-part series is on 16 November at 2.45pm.
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3 October 2008
RHS Campaign for School Gardening celebrates first birthday
The RHS Campaign for School Gardening celebrated its first birthday by holding a tea party, complete with vegetable birthday cake, at St Leonard’s Primary School in Streatham, the first school in the country to sign up to the Campaign 12 months ago.
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30 September 2008
Malvern celebrates autumn
Show gardens at Malvern Autumn Show were good enough to eat this year, with a special new category for edible gardens and a new pavilion dedicated to growing your own food.
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29 September 2008
A Flower Show celebrating the potato!
Thrive, the charity promoting the benefits of gardening for disabled people, celebrated the United Nations Year of the Potato at its annual flower show on 24 September 2008 at Battersea Park.
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26 September 2008
Wrest Park returns to former glory
The historic landscape around Grade I listed estate Wrest Park in Bedfordshire is to be returned to its former glory in a multi-million pound restoration scheme lasting 20 years.
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26 September 2008
Britain in Bloom winners announced
The 2008 winners have been announced!
Nottingham was crowned Champion of Champions at the 2008 RHS Britain in Bloom awards ceremony at Chester Race Course on 24 September.
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25 September 2008
Chateau Wisley goes on sale
The 2007 vintage of wine made from grapes grown at RHS Garden Wisley has gone on sale in the Wisley Shop.
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22 September 2008
Seeds of the future
School children, families and gardeners all over the UK are being urged to save seeds, fruits and nuts from trees growing locally and sow them, as part of the The Tree Council’s Seed Gathering Season, aimed at encouraging more people to grow trees.
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22 September 2008
Campaign for School Gardening Appeal
The RHS has ambitious plans to introduce a whole new generation to the wonders of gardening, as part of our exciting new Campaign for School Gardening.
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19 September 2008
RHS Annual Raffle 2008
Take part in the RHS Annual Raffle If you fancy winning one of the fantastic prizes - such as a Mediterranean cruise, life membership of the RHS or a special day out at an RHS flower show - then buy your raffle chances now.
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19 September 2008
Marshalls labelling products with carbon information
Marshalls, who produce a wide range of paving and walling products, is labelling all its home and garden products with carbon information. The products will be labelled using the Carbon Trust’s Carbon Reduction Label.
The label shows consumers the amount of carbon dioxide equivalent emitted from extracting and processing raw materials, manufacturing, distributing, and disposing of the products.
19 September 2008
Cacti thefts foiled by DNA test
Rare and endangered cacti are to get their own unique identity badges under a new scheme developed by scientists from the UK and Mexico.
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19 September 2008
Diploma is boost to green skills shortage
Lantra, the organisation responsible for horticultural skills, has welcomed the introduction of new vocational diplomas for 14-18 year-olds as a 'boost' for the green skills pool in the UK.
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15 September 2008
Survey maps Britain's orchards
A major survey of Britain’s fruit orchards is under way to produce the first ever map of one of our best-loved landscape features - and your help is needed.
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15 September 2008
RHS & BBC sign five-year contract
The BBC and the RHS have signed a new five-year contract, which includes the exclusive rights to broadcast the major RHS flower shows on BBC TV until 2013.
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10 September 2008
The end of sodium chlorate
Sodium chlorate, a popular weedkiller used by gardeners on wasteground, land not intended for growing wanted plants on and hard surfaces, is to be withdrawn.
According to the Pesticides Safety Directorate, all chemicals in the chlorate group were voted by members of the EU not to be included in its list of permitted chemicals. The exact reason for non-inclusion has yet to be made public.
An official notice including use-up dates is likely to be published within the next six months, but it is expected that sodium chlorate-based weedkillers will be off the retail shelves by 2010.
2 September 2008
Impatiens downy mildew
Impatiens downy mildew is a new disease that is becoming very common on busy Lizzies.
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29 August 2008
2008 RHS Photographic Competition - deadline extended
The deadline for entries to the 2008 RHS Photographic Competition has been extended to 24 October.
This year the competition has two new categories. The first is for budding, young photographers entitled ‘In the Garden’ and carries the accolade of becoming the RHS Young Photographer of the Year. The second is for aspiring card designers of all ages, in the form of The Medici Award, accompanied by the ultimate prize of seeing your photograph sold as a greeting card across the UK.
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26 August 2008
Fuchsia feast at Wisley
A wode range of fuchsias were displayed alongside other plants from their native South America by fuchsia enthusiast Dave Green at the Wisley Flower Show, which took place 19-21 August.
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26 August 2008
Museum re-designed and re-named
The Museum of Garden History in London has closed for three months for a major re-design. When it re-opens on 18 November, the museum will have a new gallery, where previously unseen items from the Museum’s collection can be displayed for the first time.
It will also have a new name, The Garden Museum, which it is felt gives more scope for covering more recent gardening history and developments since the mid-20th century. The museum’s first exhibition on re-opening will be a retrospective on the work of Beth Chatto, who since the 1960s has been influencing garden design and planting from her world-famous garden in Essex.
The garden around the museum, a reproduction of a 17th-century knot garden occupying the site of the former graveyard, will remain open daily while building work is going on.
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26 August 2008
Contaminated manure update
The chemical, aminopyralid, thought to be responsible for contaminating manure and destroying vegetable crops, has been withdrawn at least temporarily at the request of the manufacturer, Dow AgroSciences.
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6 August 2008
RHS historian presented prestigious award
Brent Elliott, historian at the RHS Lindley Library, has been presented with a prestigious award by the Missouri Botanical Garden.
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4 August 2008
New trial garden for Suttons
Suttons Seeds has opened a new fruit and vegetable trial garden at Hadlow College in Kent.
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4 August 2008
Global plant trade may increase risk of alien diseases
Alien pests and diseases, inadvertently imported on exotic plants, are threatening the plants in our gardens and across the countryside, according to a report launched by a group led by the RHS.
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10 July 2008
RHS awards horticultural excellence
Gardening broadcaster and RHS member Roy Lancaster OBE VMH, presented the Society's top awards to 12 individuals at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show at a special awards dinner on 7 July 2008.
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7 July 2008
Get stuck on the RHS
New RHS member window stickers
The RHS has launched a new campaign to raise the profile of RHS membership and the essential support it provides to enable our charitable work to continue.
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18 June 2008
RHS calls for tax cut on ornamental plants and seeds
The RHS has launched a petition calling for VAT on all ornamental plants and seeds to be reduced from 17.5 percent to 5 percent, bringing them in line with other ‘green’ goods identified by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Find out more and sign the online petition
11 June 2008
Wisley student wins 2008 Young Horticulturist of the Year
Patrick Wiltshire, a student from RHS Garden Wisley has taken first place in a national competition winning a £2,000 travel bursary and taking the title of Young Horticulturist of the Year.
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Report sightings of pests to the RHS
The RHS is appealing to gardeners around the country to be on the look-out for four invasive, non-native pests as part of its research into the biology of red lily beetle, rosemary beetle, berberis sawfly and hemerocallis gall midge.
Find out more about the research projects
Action plan to eradicate oak processionary moth
The Forestry Commission and local authorities have joined forces to try and eradicate oak processionary moths from west and south-west London. First found in 2006, oak processionary caterpillars - the larval form of the moth - have started hatching this autumn from eggs laid on oak trees last autumn.
Find out more about the action plan
New alpine house opens at Wisley
The new alpine house at Wisley has now opened. It replaces the old wooden house which stood on the same site for over 20 years. The new alpine house is home to the garden's colourful collections of choice alpines.
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Deep in the heart of Glasgow...
Debbie Hindle and Ken Ross’s beautiful walled tenement garden is sandwiched between an office car park and another walled garden in the angle of two rows of Victorian tenements.
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Sir John St Aubyn's herbarium
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery is undertaking a large project on a collection previously owned by Sir John St Aubyn, the 5th Baronet.
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Funding relief for the National Botanic Garden of Wales
The National Botanic Garden of Wales is to benefit from raft of financial measures, including a grant to pay off a £1.9 million overdraft, to enable it to further develop its horticultural and educational resources.
Who drew Charles Darwin?
The search is on for the mystery artist of a never-seen-before caricature of Charles Darwin found in the vaults of the RHS Lindley Library.
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