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Floral crown installed in St James’s Park to commemorate Jubilee.
2 June 2012
To commemorate The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, The Royal Parks has teamed up with its contractors to install a magnificent floral crown, in St James’s Park.
Common sense hygiene means you can compost safely
1 June 2012.
The UK’s leading organic growing charity, is urging gardeners not to panic in the wake of the Legionella longbeachae compost scare in Scotland.
Stunning Cornish oasis garden opens at the Eden Project
1 June 2012.
A mermaid caused a splash at the Eden Project as she relaxed in a stunning new garden featuring water pools lined with Bodmin Moor granite and filled with some of Cornwall’s most popular plants that opened yesterday.
Get buzzy at RHS Harlow Carr
1 June 2012.
The Harrogate and Ripon Beekeepers will be at RHS Garden Harlow Carr on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 June to display their skilled craft.
£2,000 of gardening prizes to be won on-line
24 May 2012.
Together with Garden Organic and The Organic Gardening Catalogue, Nemasys, Britain's premiere manufacturer of biological controls, is searching for the UK's favourite and best organic gardening tips.
CHELSEA FRINGE REACHES 80 EVENTS!
21 May 2012.
The first ever Chelsea Fringe is now open (May 19-June 10 and the RHS have announced that tickets to Chelsea Flower Show have sold out. The RHS is suggesting visitors should instead buy tickets to other RHS shows over the rest of the summer. But the volunteers at the Chelsea Fringe like to think that visitors might consider this 'alternative' gardening festival, which now boasts 80 registered projects, most of them free of charge.
Clouds, Rain and Silver Linings
10 May 2012.
Current weather is challenging for gardeners, says the UK's leading gardening charity
Charity seeks egg-lovers to crow about free range!
30 April 2012.
Interested in eating cake, guilt-free, for a good cause? Then read on! Friday 4th May, and the first Friday of every month thereafter, is FREE RANGE FRIDAY, when the nation is being asked to get together to enjoy free-range eggs in all their guises. Yes, that includes cake - or anything else made with eggs for that matter, be it quiche, pasta, biscuits, omelettes, pancakes, or ice-cream - as long as the eggs are free-range!
Wet weather no problem for showgoers
27 April 2012.
Harrogate Spring Flower Show is buzzing at the Great Yorkshire Showground as we write despite regular April showers that have made the site a little boggy in places.
RHS SHOW CARDIFF BLOSSOMS UNDER APRIL SHOWERS
25 April 2012.
Another year, another great attendance at the RHS Show Cardiff, as almost 24,000 people braved the April showers to enjoy the first outdoor show of the Royal Horticultural Society season, which provided the finale to the very first National Gardening Week.
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