Swimming ponds have featured at flower shows for a number of years – but this 411 square metre installation, at King’s Cross in London – will be open for the…
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Designers to compete for stardom in the BBC’s Great Chelsea Garden Challenge
The Great Chelsea Garden Challenge will be broadcast on BBC Two over four nights, starting on Monday 11 May 2015 – Thursday 14 May. During four, hour-long episodes, the designers…
Win £20k by entering the 2015 Cultivation Street challenge
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…
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…