ITV Love Your Garden host Alan Titchmarsh will appear at the Three Counties Showground in Worcestershire on Thursday 5 and Friday 6 May 2016 (the show runs from 5-8 May).…
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Garden centres fail in bid to open for longer on Sundays
Garden centres were set to make £70million more per year if Sunday trading regulations had been relaxed. The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) will now write to chancellor George Osborne and…
New outdoor tomato ‘Crimson Cherry’ is resistant to all UK strains of blight, says Suttons
Tomato ‘Crimson Cherry’ has been bred for outdoor growing and comes with a claim that it can “shrug off the worst blight”. Exclusive to Suttons, it follows the standard-fruiting blight-resistant…
Highgrove gardens to host new springtime ‘green gardening’ festival
Top TV gardeners and leading nurseries are all promised for the first Highgrove: The Garden Celebrated, to be held on 11-16 April 2016. Highgrove, in Gloucestershire, is the private residence…
Novelties launched to celebrate Year of the Cosmos during 2016
Mr Fothergill’s, based in Newmarket, will exclusively launch Cosmos ‘Hummingbird Pink’ which is smaller than most cosmos, reaching just 18in (45cm) tall. This makes it suitable for containers, as well…
British astronaut Tim Peake urges kids to grow rocket seeds from space
Backing an initiative by the RHS Campaign for School Gardening and UK Space Agency, Tim Peake appeared in a video from the ISS. He floated in zero gravity with rocket…
Charlie Dimmock teams up with the Rich brothers to present new BBC garden makeover series
But Alan Titchmarsh and Tommy Walsh will not be fronting the as yet un-named BBC1 series with Charlie Dimmock, pictured above during her Ground Force days. Instead, producer Spun Gold…
Mary Berry cooks-up a recipe for the perfect rose
The Mary Berry rose is pale-yellow and comes from Mary’s favourite grower, Harkness Roses in Hertfordshire. It will be launched at Chelsea in May. The Great British Bake-Off star Mary,…
Alan Titchmarsh under fire as trees are axed at RHS Chelsea Flower Show site
The TV gardener advised that around 30 trees should be removed, despite strong objections from local residents. In his role on the board of commissioners at the Royal Hospital Chelsea,…
Egg & Chips produces potatoes and aubergines on the SAME plant!
Thompson & Morgan has taken the wraps off its exclusive Egg & Chips plant, which is the result of extensive “natural” plant grafting trials. There has been no genetic modification.…