Wales Businessman Creates Local Allotments
| July 30, 2010 | Posted by Andy under Latest gardening news |
A businessman in north east Wales has given something back to his local community – transforming the gardens of his private residence in Flintshire into a public allotment. photo credit: EdinburghGreens David McLean, who used to head an eponymous multi-million pound building company was dismayed to find out via his local paper that there was…
Butterflies in Danger
| July 23, 2010 | Posted by Andy under Latest gardening news |
Conservationists warned this week that half of all the common and garden butterfly species in the UK are facing extinction due to a combination of bad summer weather in recent years and intensive farming practices. photo credit: John Tann With numbers at an all time low, wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation said that 70 per cent…
Sissinghurst Castle Inspires Gardeners
| July 12, 2010 | Posted by Andy under Latest gardening news |
Some of England’s castles and stately homes can be an absolute treasure-trove of inspiration for gardeners, with amazing and lovingly-tended combinations of plants. Recently the Daily Mail newspaper took a trip to Sissinghurst Castle in Kent to look at some of its famous garden displays – and to take notes. The key lesson to be…
New RHS President Attacks ‘Dumbed Down’ Gardeners’ World
| July 4, 2010 | Posted by Andy under Latest gardening news |
The Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) first woman president has called on the BBC to stop the “dumbing down” of its gardening shows. Landscape architect Elizabeth Banks accused the BBC of being “scared of plants” and of patronising the UK’s gardeners. Interviewed by the Sunday Times, Ms Banks said that long-running BBC programme Gardeners’ World needed…
Topiary Footballer Snatched from Roundabout
| June 18, 2010 | Posted by Andy under Latest gardening news |
It is very rare that vandalism, gardening and World Cup fever all combine, but this was the bizarre combination of circumstances that led to a rather strange crime being committed at a Buckinghamshire roundabout. Aylesbury Council decided to mark England’s part in the tournament last Tuesday by placing a topiary footballer on their roundabout in…
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