2018 Hampton Court Palace Flower Show: Show Garden Award Winners. This year, there are a total of 27 gardens across four categories. This article reviews the World Garden category award winners.
2018 Hampton Court Palace Flower Show: Show Garden Award Winners. This year, there are a total of 27 gardens across four categories: Show Gardens, World Gardens, Lifestyle Gardens, and Gardens For a Changing World / Conceptual Garden. This article reviews the Show Garden award winners.
Six of the weirdest and most wonderful plants that make Lotusland Montecito, California, so unique, so wonderful, and so worth a visit.
Information on your area’s minimum annual temperatures is essential for proper plant selection. So-called plant hardiness zones or ratings give you some indication as to how hardy plants must be to survive the coldest of winter temperatures in a particular area.
A growing number of gardeners are abandoning insecticides and relying on beneficial insects to control garden pests. Beneficial insects are an attractive and safe alternative to chemical insecticides.
A panel of over 100 Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) plant experts evaluated the entries for Plant of the Year 2018 using three judging criteria: innovation, excellence and impact, and appeal. The top three rated plants are presented here.
Deer-Resistant Plants These are plants often overlooked by deer. However, deer may still eat the tender, new growth of some of these plants. Deer tend to dislike fuzzy and aromatic leaves, and spiny, bristle-like textures. Botanical Name Common Name(s) Aconitum napellus Monkshood Actaea racemosa Black Cohosh Agapanthus African Lily Ageratum Read more…
2018 Chelsea Flower Show: Show Garden Award Winners. This year, there are a total of 26 gardens across three categories: Show Gardens, Artisan Gardens, and Space-to-Grow Gardens. This article reviews the Show Garden award winners.
2018 Chelsea Flower Show: Artisan Garden Award Winners. There are a total of 26 gardens at this year’s show across three categories: Show Gardens, Artisan Gardens, and Space-to-Grow Gardens. This article reviews the Artisan Garden award winners.
2018 Chelsea Flower Show: Space-to-Grow Garden Award Winners. At this year’s show, there are a total of 26 gardens across three categories: Show Gardens, Artisan Gardens, and Space-to-Grow Gardens. This article reviews the Space-to-Grow Garden award winners.
The Huntington Botanical Gardens, in San Marino, California, feature 15,000 plant varieties across 12 different feature gardens. While all the gardens are beautiful, the Desert Garden, Japanese Garden, and Chinese Garden were my favourites.
Here is a list of fragrant plants and exceptionally fragrant roses for you to consider when designing your garden.
Sky Garden spans the top three floors of 20 Fenchurch Street; the City of London’s building nicknamed the “Walkie-Talkie”. Sky Garden can be best described as a three-storey high indoor “hill” from the 35th floor to the 37th floor.
I love drought-tolerant plants! But as a flat dweller in Central London, open terrariums are about the only way I can indulge my love for these plants.
Closed Terrariums: Indoor Gardens Under Glass. As a flat dweller in Central London, my gardening has been limited to four – dare I say spectacular – window boxes, an occasional potted plant, and more recently, terrariums. Closed terrariums are tiny indoor gardens under glass and are well-suited to moisture-loving plants Read more…