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2 months ago | 
gardensillustrated.com | Alice Tuffery |Molly Blair
If you're going to be around London during the Chelsea Flower Show, but are not going to venture into the showground, or perhaps have some time to spare, then why not take a look at some of the other things to see and do around London? What else is on in London during the Chelsea Flower Show 2025Chelsea in BloomJust a stone's throw from the Chelsea Flower Show, you can see the floral bonanza of Chelsea in Bloom, the free-to-attend festival of flowers.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
gardensillustrated.com | Molly Blair
Did you know that as many as one in three of the world’s tree species are threatened in the wild? More than 17,500 of the world’s 60,000 tree species are at risk of extinction due to extreme weather, habitat loss and timber exploitation, as well as the global spread of pests and disease. The collection of 15,000 specimen trees at Westonbirt, The National Arboretum is of national and international significance.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
gardensillustrated.com | Molly Blair
Renting a Christmas tree has grown in popularity over the last few years, and the trend looks set to continue with consumers' increasing concerns about their festive waste. The debate over whether buying a real or a fake Christmas tree is more sustainable has been going on for a while, but now renting a tree has also been added to the mix.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
gardensillustrated.com | Molly Blair
It's common now in the UK to hear about 'retired' varieties of rose - plants that have been discontinued which become increasingly hard to find on sale. But why do breeders take plants off the market, and what should you do if it happens to your favourite roses? "There are two main reasons why a nursery might want to drop a variety," says world-leading rosarian Michael Marriott. "Firstly because it is no longer deemed to be garden worthy enough, mainly because it is too susceptible to disease.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
gardensillustrated.com | Molly Blair
The Royal Horticultural Society has revealed the first details about gardens that will appear at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2025 at its Autumn Conference. Discover the full list of RHS Chelsea Flower Show gardensThe first announcement arrived early this morning with the news that Monty Don will be designing his first ever garden at Chelsea. The RHS and Radio 2 Dog Garden will celebrate the nation's love of dogs and the gardens we share with them. Monty Don tuned in from home to discuss the garden.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
gardensillustrated.com | Molly Blair
Gardens Illustrated's award-winning podcast, Talking Gardens, is returning with an all-new line-up of gardening guests for season 4. The new season launches on Tuesday 22 October with an exciting guest for its launch episode: Monty Don, the TV presenter and writer, who will be speaking to podcast host and Gardens Illustrated editor Stephanie Mahon about his dream garden and more. Follow now wherever you get your podcasts to have this special episode lined up in your feed.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
gardensillustrated.com | Alice Tuffery |Stephanie Mahon |Molly Blair |Veronica Peerless
Gardens Illustrated’s top 20 horticultural heroes 2024 is our list of extraordinary garden champions who are having an impact on places, people, plants and the planet. From climate crusaders to passionate plantspeople and exciting educators to those who go the extra mile to make a difference, we have scoured the gardening world to identify fantastic initiatives, ideas and stories to feel hopeful about.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
gardensillustrated.com | Molly Blair
“We’ll probably have an Indian summer,” seemed to be the catchphrase of summer 2024. Yet, when September rolled around, we were met with more torrential rain. There seems to be a consensus: this has been an incredibly difficult year for growers, possibly, the worst year ever. “Both Lucy and I have been avid gardeners and growers for 20 years and this has been the toughest season we can remember,” says Kate Cotterill of She Grows Veg, an heirloom seed company that she runs with Lucy Hutchings.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
gardensillustrated.com | Molly Blair
We see them everywhere in our day-to-day lives, adorning shop fronts, strung up on café ceilings and brightening up windowless bathrooms, fake flowers are now a decorative staple. Regularly used on movie and tv sets, famously in series such as Bridgerton, to create the right atmosphere or alter the season and posted all over social media from the doorsteps of restaurants, it is hard to avoid false blooms. False flowers aren't exactly a new trend.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
gardensillustrated.com | Molly Blair |Stephanie Mahon
Forget haute couture – it’s all about hort couture right now as fashion and gardening are having a moment. From The Met Gala, fashion's biggest night, which had ‘The Garden of Time’ as its dress code this year, to the catwalk shows of some of the biggest names in the business, everything, it seems, is coming up roses. Nature-inspired prints and patterns are commonplace, of course, and S/S 2024 collections from Dolce & Gabbana to Marc Jacobs were alive with bold floral motifs.
