The RHS has just announced (18 Jan) that planting wildflowers will be the key theme for the National Gardening Week on 15-21 April 2013.
The RHS and Mr Fothergill’s will be giving away 10,000 packets of wildflower seeds to the first people to register online at www.nationalgardeningweek.org.uk from 15 March.
The RHS will also be holding min-mini-meadow workshops at the RHS Gardens at Wisley, Hyde Hall, Rosemoor and Harlow Carr.
You can expect the BBC and GW to be covering this subject in a more depth, come March/April.
After watching Sarah Raven's programme last year I wrote to the council to see if I could turn and strip of grass between me and my non-gardening neighbours into a pollinating plant strip. Despite explaining that my neighbours neither gardened nor cared if I did this, the council said that as my neighbours rented the council-owned house they were responsible for this strip.
Anyway I just happened to spill a few open packets of Yellow Rattle on the strip last year - oops, I'm such a butter fingers!
I have just located cirsium rivulare in the U.S. I know it is a thistle,I have only seen photos of this plant on U.K sites .It is very hard to find here on long island,I am having it sent 3000 miles from california to N.Y.Does any one have this plant ,it looks sooo lovely . Thanks Debra
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The RHS has just announced (18 Jan) that planting wildflowers will be the key theme for the National Gardening Week on 15-21 April 2013.
The RHS and Mr Fothergill’s will be giving away 10,000 packets of wildflower seeds to the first people to register online at www.nationalgardeningweek.org.uk from 15 March.
The RHS will also be holding min-mini-meadow workshops at the RHS Gardens at Wisley, Hyde Hall, Rosemoor and Harlow Carr.
You can expect the BBC and GW to be covering this subject in a more depth, come March/April.
Thanks for the info Lyon!
After watching Sarah Raven's programme last year I wrote to the council to see if I could turn and strip of grass between me and my non-gardening neighbours into a pollinating plant strip. Despite explaining that my neighbours neither gardened nor cared if I did this, the council said that as my neighbours rented the council-owned house they were responsible for this strip.
Anyway I just happened to spill a few open packets of Yellow Rattle on the strip last year - oops, I'm such a butter fingers!
Good idea quercus. you can throw in a few dog daisies this year.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I have just located cirsium rivulare in the U.S. I know it is a thistle,I have only seen photos of this plant on U.K sites .It is very hard to find here on long island,I am having it sent 3000 miles from california to N.Y.Does any one have this plant ,it looks sooo lovely . Thanks Debra