Rivals compete for Chelsea best-new-plant prize
18 May 2012 | by Matthew Appleby
Nominees for RHS Chelsea Flower Show best new plant of the year set to be whittled down to around 20 later this week.
James Wong and Suttons Seeds have launched a 30-variety vegetable seed range including green tea, sweet potatoes, bamboo shoots and quinoa.
Nominees for RHS Chelsea Flower Show best new plant of the year set to be whittled down to around 20 later this week.
Rare trees and shrubs from Japan and elsewhere are to be planted in the grounds of Scone Palace to replace specimens destroyed by storms over the past year.
What a wretched contrast to the start of the garden retail season in 2011 this season's opening has proved to be. This time last year, industry stalwarts such as Peter Seabrook were hailing the best ever spring for retail sales for 50 years.
Dutch substrate supplier Grodan has launched a video to help growers explain sustainable growing to their customers in a format that can be accessed on a smartphone via a QR code.
Growing crops under LEDs "means you can put a facility down in the middle of a town and grow crops right where you need them", according to Stockbridge Technology Centre (STC) chief executive Graham Ward.
The role of soil microbes in ensuring food security will be highlighted by the Society for General Microbiology (SGM) at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show next week.
A "fern line" is being set up by Bowden Hostas following its recent acquisition of fern grower Rickards Hardy Ferns.
Bowden Hostas has teamed-up with David Howard, former head gardener to HRH the Prince of Wales, for the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show on 3-8 July.
Crocus and Hortus Loci reap benefits as show garden designers favour one-stop-shop nurseries.



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