Latest Horticultural News

A new four part series based on the great gardens of Europe starts on channel five on Saturday 23rd of August at 18.20

On Friday 25 July 2025, Kew Gardens in London opens one of its most ambitious garden projects in recent years: the Carbon Garden.

Plans have been announced to virtually rebuild Kew's iconic Glasshouse and make it a world first Net Zero glasshouse of its kind

Birmingham Botanical Garden in Edgbaston are set to receive a donation  of a robotic mower and chainsaw from Stiga

It would appear our Blackbird population is in serious decline with numbers plummeting. The following was from The Royal Horticultural Society

RHS asks public to help map UK’s daffodils and find rare pink, white and ‘bonfire’ yellow varieties

Kew announces groundbreaking new Carbon Garden, set to open summer 2025

Brand new from world renown clematis breeder Raymond Evison is Clematis 'Elpis' in association with Prostate Cancer UK

Frank Matthews are set to introduce a new old pear to the gardening press on February 18th at the Garden Press Event

So much for The Good Life! Council bills green-fingered couple nearly £500 for growing vegetables in their OWN garden - claiming they need planning permission.

Apparently there are only 300 female Black Poplars left today, but Milton Keynes aim to boost the numbers.

Kew Gardens has published a list of new plant introductions. Amongst the top ten are some weird but wonderful new subjects.