The Cultivation Street competition is back for the third year, with judges looking for the most inspirational community, street and school gardens across the UK. Spearheaded by David Domoney, the…
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Chris Beardshaw to be a Royal Horticultural Society Ambassador
Gardeners’ Question Time expert Chris, a regular on The Beechgrove Garden, will have a remit to promote community gardening. Chris joins Alan Titchmarsh, Mary Berry, Nick Knowles, James Wong and…
Plastic to replace glass in bid to beat yobs at vandal-hit allotments
A kind-hearted firm stepped in and offered to replace shattered greenhouses and sheds with plastic sheeting that is damage proof. Over the last few years the 34 plots at Berry…
Gardening worries people, says celebrity designer Diarmuid Gavin
Diarmuid, who found fame with BBC design show Home Front after the Millennium, told Amateur Gardening there was a huge appetite for practical advice. “At one point, TV was all…
Allotment closures are a ‘national epidemic’
The petition ‘Help protect the UK’s allotment sites’ on www.change.org already has 13,000 signatures. Organisers have produced a poster called Sign For Victory, a play on the famous wartime Dig…
Monty Don to present The Secret History of the British Garden on BBC2
Gardeners’ World presenter Monty has filmed The Secret History of the British Garden for BBC2. It’ll feature four, 60-minute episodes. In each instalment, Monty looks at how factors such war,…
Yellow flowers will be in fashion this summer, says B&Q
The DIY and garden giant expects Brits to spend £40million on yellow plants this year (2015) – and is even forecast to sell two million plants in just a fortnight.…
Are you Britain’s youngest or oldest allotment gardener?
Launched by the National Allotment Society (NAS) at the Edible Garden Show in London in March, winners are set to be announced during National Allotment Week (10-16 August). Categories include…
The era of vegetable patches is over, says celebrity gardener James Wong
BBC gardener James, a regular on Countryfile, published Grow For Flavour last month. He said it had been “pretty much the top-seller in gardening recently”. Prior to launch, James had…
BBC should extend Gardeners’ World to an hour, say fans
Readers debated the 2015 series on AG’s Facebook page, calling on the Beeb to extend airtime devoted to gardening. Heather Redhead wrote: “Gardeners’ World needs an hour. Millions of people…