Category: News

It is National Houseplant Week (January 9 – January 15) and the use of plants in interior design is still surging in popularity.  Houseplants are now seen and used as accent pieces, to brighten, soften or lighten areas of your rooms and are well known for their mental and health benefits. ZZ Plant The ZZ Plant (Zamioculcas zamiifolia) is the…

Biddulph Grange Garden, a masterpiece of Victorian garden design, is celebrating the return of its striking Chinese Bridge, thanks to the skills of a National Trust specialist crafts team and the marathon fundraising efforts of a Staffordshire schoolgirl.  The ornate red, green and yellow footbridge – first built in the mid 19th-century and replaced in the late 1980s – is…

The Wildlife Trusts are challenging nature lovers to join the Big Wild Walk this October and raise money to help protect Britain’s wild places.    Funds raised will contribute towards The Wildlife Trusts’ goal of protecting and connecting 30% of UK’s land and sea for nature by 2030. The Wildlife Trusts are undertaking a raft of projects to reverse alarming declines…

The Wildlife Trusts are asking their members, supporters and the wider public to defend nature by contacting MPs and local councillors – both online and in person – to voice concerns over new Government proposals. Over the last few days, the Government has: Announced the Retained EU Law Bill – threatening to revoke hundreds of laws that protect wild places…

A miniature potager garden containing vegetables, herbs, flowers and many inspiring ideas for tiny gardens and young gardeners – was awarded a Silver Gilt at the Gardeners’ World Autumn Fair.  The Family Potager Garden, created by Garden Organic’s Head Gardener, Emma O’Neill, incorporated many ideas for families on tight budgets and with small plots, and was deemed a winning design…

All sales of peat to amateur gardeners in England will be banned by 2024, the government has announced today (Saturday 27th August, 2022). Peatlands are the UK’s largest carbon store but only approximately 13% of our peatlands are in a near-natural state. This degradation has occurred due to drainage for agricultural use, overgrazing and burning, as well as extraction for…