Heroic plant hunters did us proud Roy Lancaster tells Chelsea
23 May 2012
Horticulturists owe a huge professional debt to Victorian plant hunters who risked their lives and sanity trekking to faraway lands, says broadcaster Roy Lancaster.
Winner of this year's top plant award credited for breakthrough following work to cross species.
Horticulturists owe a huge professional debt to Victorian plant hunters who risked their lives and sanity trekking to faraway lands, says broadcaster Roy Lancaster.
Universities, institutes, botanic gardens and other organisations around the country are taking part in the first Fascination of Plants Day today (18 May).
The stories of some of history's most fanatical plant-hunting adventurers will be brought to life in a new exhibition by the RHS Lindley Library and the Garden Museum.
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.
The RHS has opened a new £598,000 controlled environment research facility at RHS Garden Wisley.
Palmstead aims to improve knowledge dissemination from its September soft-landscaping event.
RHS science head Dr Roger Williams has left the society to take a new role working for the New Zealand crops levy board.
Evidence of non-human species cultivating plants for uses other than food has been uncovered by researchers at the University of Exeter.
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