Gardening News

News Archives 2005 - 2007

May 2008

• Prior Park planting scheme complete
• Holker Festival 2008 - a feast for all the senses
• Celebrating all things floral at Borde Hill
• It’s a "good life" for Bradstone design challenge winner
• Dig Your Dinner and help protect Britain’s Vegetable Heritage

April 2008

• New College Garden Design area proves big draw at Harrogate
• Favourite Garden Vegetables highlighted by GrowVeg.com
• Houghton Hall, Norfolk wins 2007 Garden of The Year Award
• Harrogate Spring Flower Show
• TV Gardeners back national fundraising initiative for tree charity
• Chelsea Cuttings - a round-up in brief of the latest Chelsea News
• Dorset Cereals launches the Edible Playgrounds’ website
• Garden Statuary Through the Ages - Inaugural Summers Place Auction
• Gardening Scotland 2008
• Big trees matter! - Seminar July 2008
• Brooke Pottery exhibits at Chelsea for 10th Year
• Art in the Garden at Wingwell
• Discovering People - Libby Purves in conversation with Tim Smit
• Herbal Happiness at West Dean
• Lullingstone Plant Fair May 11th
• Make the most of your front garden and beat falling house prices

March 2008

• Inchbald – Online: Setting the benchmark for the future of design training
• A summer of Events at West Dean Gardens
• See spring in all its glory for half the price at Westonbirt
• Uvistat shines through at BBC Gardeners' World Live
• Lincolnshire's 'lost' garden scoops two prestigious awards in one day
• Learn to garden the Eden way
• Loseley House Great Gardening Show
• A rose for whisky lovers
• New York Botanical hosts Orchid Show
• Indulge your passion for gardening on a National Trust working holiday
• Urban gardening brings outside in at new Urbis exhibition
• The Virtual Gardener Has Arrived
• Sudden Oak Death – Phytophthora ramorum - advice
• Tree planting at Westonbirt to celebrate Holford bicentary
• A Perfect Easter Gift for Gardeners

February 2008

• National Trust for Scotland launches storm damage appeal
  
• New Cacti and Succulent House for Lullingstone
• Expert advice in an instant
• Eden blows away winter blues
• A Fruitful Day for UK Rose Growers and Retailers
• Renowned Planstman to talk at RHS crocus day
• New Chairman for RHS Britain in Bloom spreads floral message
• Geese solve grass growing headache
• Time to get out in the garden - handy tips from Bayer Garden
• New multi-flowering Busy Lizzie and climbing Petunia
• New Garden at Arundel Castle
• Precious wildflower uprooted and stolen
• Discover the true Garden of England in the Heart of Kent
• Orchid masterclass on DVD
• How green are Britain's Gardeners?

January 2008

• Get a Taste for Garden Design
• Country Living Spring Fair
• Brett Landscaping to return to Chelsea Show
• An audience with Sam Youd at Tatton Park
• Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show 2008
• Trentham - set to flourish in 2008
• News in Brief - STIHL, Marie Curie Cancer Care’s Great Daffodil Appeal & Heritage Garden
• Somerset Potato Day and Seed Swap
• Withdrawal of Rotenone

December 2007

• Walter de la Mare poem inspires winner
• BUPA announce Chelsea garden
• Amazing Rare Things - Exciting exhibition at the Queen's Gallery
• Tom is off to Ecuador on hunt for plants
• Daffs flowering a month early prove that Eden is right on the Edge
• Getting to the Root of the Problem with the RHS Advisory Service
• Hillier Help for Heroes Rose
• New Year - New Garden - New You
• Stroll in a winter garden - a National Trust garden

November 2007

• The search is on for Bradstone designer
• New Contemporary Art event for Tatton Park
• Quarry Bank Garden reveals an 18th-century 'secret'
• Horticulture to have Green Skills 'Facebook' treatment
• Secret new inhabitant in Tyrrels Wood
• Gardening goodies for Christmas
• New - All About Bird Watching Kit from Millets
• Glorious Gardening Breaks for the Green Fingered
• Garden Centre Scoops 'Garden Centre of the Year' for 2nd year running
• Collaborative Campaign to Barcode trees of the world
• Gardeners get a boost from new Westonbirt Compost
• A titanic hat-trick at Eden!
• Henry Moore Exhibition at the New York Botanical
• What your front door says about you!

October 2007

• Feed the birds and create homes for wildlife
• Outdoor classroom planned at Lincolnshire school
• Hillier launch new on-line shop
• Gardens In Focus - the best garden photography in the UK
• Culture kitchen celebrating World Food Day
• British homegardens now the subject of major research project
• Gardening Which? Top Ten for autumn colour
• Rare 'anti-fat' plant takes Eden closer to the Edge
• RHS launches Campaign for School Gardening
• Thousands turn out for home grown town meal
• Top Floral Spot for Smallest City

September 2007

• Moving House? What  about  the garden?
• Imperial Style Chrysanthemums at New York Botanical
• Trees, Tulips and Tantalising Plants - Winter lecture programme at West Dean College
• Cheshire will be blooming for 2008
• Apple Day at Garden Organic
• Adopt Half an Acre of Rainforest
• Plant a daffodil bulb and help Marie Curie Cancer Care
• Celebrity gardener to design garden of remembrance for animal heroes
• Greener Kitchens with new Home Composting
• Painshill Park, Cobham, Surrey
• The hunt is on to find this year's Scottish Land-based Learners of the Year

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August 2007

• 'Reeding on the bog' at Garden Organic
• Cruise on an Edwardian gentleman's yacht - back into the world of the Great Gardens
• Emmerdale's Roxy gets a Rose
• National Trust celebrates 40th anniversary of working holidays
• Gardens and cream teas
• National Trust Heritage Open Day - September 8th
• A special focus on Gifts from Nature
• Chiswick House Kitchen Garden opens for National Garden Scheme
• National Allotments Week promotes social benefits of allotment gardening
• Gardener designer receives honorary degree
• Free Garden Pest Spotter
• Westonbirt Events for August
• Have you got what it takes to 'Delight' Tom Hart Dyke?

July 2007

• Bill postponement will lead to more garden devastation
• Rothay Manor announces new Garden Holidays
• 'A Clever Use of Space' - urban gardening with Matt James at Clifton Nurseries (14 - 15th July)
• TV Garden grows hospice funds
• Open Gardens Event at Thorpe Salvin
• Surrey College Launches Second Garden Design Course
• New Herb Garden established in Kent
• Giant pre-historic gardens to be built in desert by British designers
• Future of the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show

June 2007

• Glastonbury Festival gets the Ultimate Green Garden
• Garden Organic rescues veg on the verge of extinction
• Nursery Garden open all year round under National Gardens Scheme
• Award for David Austin in Queen's Birthday Honours
• Prince's Trust first ever show garden
• Bournemouth rockery adapts to climate change
• The Secret of St Barnabas and Cheshire's Champion Fruits to be revealed at RHS Tatton
• Allotment of the Year Competition
• 'Wine in the Garden' at Hole Park
• Comfrey - a gardener's best friend!
• Jackson's Wold Garden - 'A Sight to behold'
• Landscape and Horticulture Skills win support at Chelsea
• Come to your senses at RHS Tatton Park Flower Show
• Something for everyone at Holker Festival
• Sustainability tops the list of gardeners' concerns
• Blue Peter gardener receives Prince Philip prize
• Green Garden to showcase sustainability
• Chiswick House Kitchen Garden Open Day
• Gloria Hunniford to open Southport Flower Show

May 2007

• Hidcote Manor Garden Centenary Appeal
• Plantforlife launches Advice Guide to encourage first-time gardeners
• New super pest warning for Wisteria
• Trend-Spotting at Holker Festival
• Planting in the Moonlight
• Renovated Rockefeller Rose Garden Celebrates Rose Month At The New York Botanical Garden
• Garden of the Year Award - Bourton House
• New Era of Hydrangeas has arrived
• The Gardens of Glenapp Castle
• Loire Valley Wines Open Garden Squares Weekend
• New President of The Hardy Plant Society

April 2007

• Easton Walled Gardens' Big Sweet Pea Week
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Banks Billionth Seed
• Grand theft garden 
• Celebrate fine food and local produce with the National Trust
• Peruvian treasures for everyone
• Water debate as temperatures rise
• New TV Series explores UK's most remarkable gardens
• Three New Streptocarpus Launches From Dibleys
• Plant Sale and Garden Open Day at Sherbourne Park
• Bowes Museum hosts Garden Plants and Produce Show
• Free events at Clifton Nurseries, in Little Venice, London
• Greywalls Opens Its Elegant Edwardian Gardens to The Public
• Hardy Plant Society Plant Fairs
• Spoil your garden this spring - Christie's garden ornaments and architectural elements sale.
• Chiswick House Kitchen Garden Open Day
• How Green a Gardener are You?
• Gardening industry missing out on key sector
• Passionate Gardener joins campaign

March 2007

• Bath Spring Flower Show ready to dazzle on 21st anniversary
• Southport Flower Show Student Competition goes National
• Save Our Gardens Campaign - MPs united to end garden grabbing
• National Trust picks top ten gardens to see butterflies
• Celebrity chefs join the RHS Grow Your Own Campaign
• World of African plants now available to all
• Holland's famous Keukenhof Flower Exhibition to be opened by Crown Princess of Sweden
• The New York Botanical Garden Plans Special Weekend on Gardening in a Changing Climate
• Up front design at world's largest flower show
• Garden Experts to tackle green issues in lecture series
• Designer setting for The Glasshouse at RHS Wisley
• Plant for Wildlife in 2007  with 'Bloomin' Wild' RHS Campaign

February 2007

• Call for entries to the RHS Summer Fruit & Vegetable Competition to be held at Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
• New pest is more than a 'miner' problem
• Blue Peter Gardener Backs Growing in Schools
• Spring has arrived - at National Trust gardens in Cornwall & Devon
• New Hall gains a first – Cambridge College to create Chic Garden
• Still more snowdrops blooming in abundance
• RHS Flower Show at Tatton already creating a buzz
• Gardening Which? has suggestions for keeping plants vibrant in unpredictable climate
• Gardeners show concern about climate change
• Top woods for spring bluebells
• Daffodils sing out at the RHS Spring Flower Show, Cardiff
• Chiswick House Kitchen Garden Open Days
• Tom is back with the chronicles of Lullingstone Castle
• Hidcote celebrates centenary
• RHS Photographic Competition 2006 exhibition at the Medici Gallery
• Webbs - Crowned best garden centre in country

January 2007

• Spring programme of events at The National Arboretum, Westonbirt
• Visit a National Trust garden this February - and say hello to the magnificent snowdrop.
• Support campaign to save 100 year old allotments!
• Spring delights announced for the RHS Spring Flower Show, Cardiff
• Floral romance at the RHS London Flower Show
• Countryside Alliance Plant Sale & Garden Open Day, Sherbourne Park
• Honour for former Director General of the RHS
• Malaysia Flora Fest launches 'Visit Malaysia Year 2007'
• The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is inviting young explorers to spend a magical night in the Gardens
• Spring into the Seven Wonders of the Weald
• Do You Own the WORST Shed in Britain?
• Now plants can go on holiday too!
• Compost on test
• The RHS Lindley Library blossoms
• Spring blossoms at Marle Place Gardens
• Unlock the Gate to The Year of the Cotswold Garden
• Give Your Garden a Spring Makeover at the Country Living Magazine Spring Fair
• Soil Association Horticultural Events 2007
• Eden to burst out of winter into colour for Bulb Mania 2007

December 2006

• New TV series - will give an inside view of Kew, starting on 5th January
• Tickets now available for the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show Charity Gala Preview 2007
• New show sponsor heralds exciting year for RHS Chelsea Flower Show
• RHS launches new 'Grow Your Own VEG Campaign' for 2007
• Thriving schools win national gardening contest
• An aromatic extravaganza - at the RHS London Flower Show - January 16-17.
• MIFGS Bursts with colour
• Diarmuid Gavin appointed patron for Southport Flower Show
• New website encourages junior gardeners
• Environmental charity Earthwatch has announced the launch of ten new conservation expeditions
• Organic approval for slug control
• Survey reveals how UK's gardeners support wildlife
• Australian Garden set for Chelsea Return
• Historic agreement to deliver a better skilled, more competitive workforce for Scotland

November 2006

• Save the stress of Christmas shopping & help save the world's plant life
• RHS teaching garden to have designer touch
• Tree Dressing at Wisley
• Marshalls' new varieties make 2007 its biggest ever year
• Tickets now on sale for RHS 2007 Flower Shows
• Dimmock helps youngsters go potty for planting

October 2006

• Tickets soon to be released for the 2007 RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park (18 – 22 July 2007)
• Getting ready for Christmas at RHS Gardens
• Britain's best-loved birds struggle in our concrete jungle
• Winter stars set to shine at the London Flower Show (10 - 11 Nov)
• Plant a seed with a great alternative gift!
• Chiswick House Kitchen Garden Association Funding Award
• Northumberland college holds blooming event
• Compton Acres Seed Gathering
• Special programme of guided winter walks - by the National Trust

September 2006

• Cardiff wins gold!
• Holker Hosts First 'Estate Day' - a celebration of all that is best about local Cumbrian food.
• Garden Entrepreneur enters the Dragon's Den
• Inga Grimsey has been appointed Director General of the RHS
• Sophie Grigson is the new herb society president

August 2006

• TV presenter Donna Air supports the Soil Association's Organic Fortnight.
• Visit Chiswick, London, weekend of gardening related activities, 16-17 Sept
• How good is your garden for wildlife? New survey launched.
• Chevrolet Matiz collaborates with Paula Pryke, to create the UK's first ever 'Car In Bloom'
• Rose to be dedicated to Diarmuid & Justine Gavin's 20 month old daughter. Funds raised will help childrens charity.
• Visit a National Trust property this autumn.
• RHS London Flower Shows - The place to satisfy a passion for fashion - autumn / winter schedule available
• Take advantage of a special 2 for 1 offer at Bressingham Gardens
• Electrical Safety Council calls on all gardeners to double check their electrics
• The New York Botanical Garden Hosts Climate Change Symposium
• New garden open at Bressingham
• Winter Garden Study Mornings at Parham House
• A garden in Bath that promises to challenge all your senses!

July 2006

• Cragside Cascades Open after Restoration
• National Trust acquires historic parkland surrounding Sheffield Park
• Final few weeks to find UK's Most Talented blind gardeners
• Breakthrough Breast Cancer challenges green-fingered fundraisers
• The English Lavender Festival at Yorkshire Lavender
• Summer Tours of Charles Darwin's Garden
• Judges Get Wild About 2006 RHS Britain in Bloom
• Midlands Summer Gardener's Weekend comes to Weston Park 15- 16 July
• New Curator for RHS Garden Hyde Hall

June 2006

• North East England Reveals its Hidden Gems
• The Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show Secure For Two Years
• Low maintenance plants could be key to drought - a look at Begonia Bonfire
• Midge forecasting system launched
• Red Indian Reg Blesses Tom's Totem Poles at the World Garden of Plants
• Herb Society launch child-friendly educational website
• Wild About Gardens Campaign 2006

May 2006

• New rose launch for Fetzer Vineyards at Chelsea Flower Show
• Oldest and Largest Fuchsia Show celebrates 62nd Year
• First sensory trail for a garden launched by the National Trust at Stourhead
• Leading Botanical Artist in Residence at Crompton Acres
• One of the World's Oldest and Rarest Trees Planted at Trentham
• New Kitchen, Herb and Physic Gardens open in Lake District
• Gardens Open in Somerset Village
• VisitBritain launches the new Gardens Explorer guide
• Holker's Festival Celebrating Garden, Countryside and Food
• Greywalls opens its famous gardens
• RHS charts renaissance of the allotment
  

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