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Exhibition celebrating one of England’s finest gardens to open in the summer

2nd June 2017 Steve Ott News

By Andrew Shaw The Boughton House gardens in Northamptonshire are spread over 100 acres of landscape and contain more than a mile of canals. Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, and his son John are credited with designing much of gardens, and a huge project of restoration by their present day descendants, the Dukes of Buccleuch, has been underway for…

A new home and era for the UK’s biggest and only dedicated flower market

3rd April 2017 Steve Ott News

Historic move for New Covent Garden’s Flower Market after 43 years On Monday 3rd April, the Flower Market at New Covent Garden Market – the UK’s biggest, specialist flower and plant hall – is headed for a new home. Remaining in Nine Elms, in the heart of London, it will relocate half a mile down Nine Elms Lane from its…

Help to dig up soil secrets

2nd November 2016 Steve Ott Tips and Advice

The autumn relaunch of the Earthworm Watch survey is aiming to inspire gardeners to record the biodiversity beneath their feet. A national citizen science project being conducted by Earthwatch Institute and the Natural History Museum in association with the Earthworm Society of Britain, it has involved gardeners, families and schoolchildren in recording soil properties and undertaking worm counts in urban…

Watch out for worms!

2nd June 2016 Steve Ott Tips and Advice

Gardeners are being asked to sign up to Earthworm Watch Gardeners are being asked to sign up to Earthworm Watch, a citizen science survey organised by Earthwatch, the Natural History Museum and the Earthworm Society of Britain. It’s well known that earthworms increase soil fertility and carbon storage by mixing in dead plant material. However, data about earthworms is severely…