What's in a name?

What's in a name?

Plant names and their pronunciation can be a vexed business. If you’re overwhelmed by long Latin plant names, take heart: botanist and author James Wong comes to the rescue and explains why the botanical names matter and how a little knowledge of them can give us clues as to how plants look and perform. He explains that since Latin is a dead language, there’s no-one around to correct your pronunciation – so just go ahead and have a go! When familiar plant names are changed, it can be a source of annoyance for us gardeners. But James Armitage, Editor of The Plant Review, explains there is method behind the apparent madness of this; plus, after the storms, what you need to check in your garden this weekend. Useful links The Plant Review Promoting garden plant diversity (RHS website) Meet the RHS horticultural taxonomy team

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Climate resilient gardens, lettuces, and gladioli

Climate resilient gardens, lettuces, and gladioli

This week we head to RHS Wisley's Hilltop where the science and advisory teams are working tirelessly to come up with solutions to some of the biggest pressures facing horticulture and gardeners today...

2 Huhti 31min

Resilient gardens, blossoming trees & growing cucumbers

Resilient gardens, blossoming trees & growing cucumbers

This week we’re embracing the arrival of spring in the garden. RHS horticultural advisor Jenny Bowden applies a right plant, right place approach in her sandy, drought-prone garden in southeast Englan...

26 Maalis 29min

An ode to home grown

An ode to home grown

This week, we’re focusing on the edible garden, and the simple yet radical act of growing your own food in an age of convenience. Food writer Nancy Matsumoto explores how our globalised food system is...

19 Maalis 33min

Spring into wellbeing: primroses, pollinators, and peas

Spring into wellbeing: primroses, pollinators, and peas

With the first glimmers of spring starting to show through, this week we’re diving into the theme of wellbeing – both for us and our garden wildlife. RHS Science & Horticulture Editor Olivia Drake joi...

12 Maalis 34min

Learning From The Wild

Learning From The Wild

This week, we’re leafing through the pages of The Plant Review to explore a simple question: what can we learn from the wild? American plantsman Daniel J. Hinkley reflects on a lifetime of exploratio...

5 Maalis 37min

Rethinking rose pruning, self-sufficiency, and ornamental grasses

Rethinking rose pruning, self-sufficiency, and ornamental grasses

This week we join gardener and biologist Benny Hawksbee in his rose beds to find out how one small adjustment to the traditional rose pruning method can create vital habitat for a key aphid predator. ...

26 Helmi 32min

Wet winter gardening, woodland walks and pruning wisteria

Wet winter gardening, woodland walks and pruning wisteria

This week, we’re heading to RHS Garden Wisley to discover how its horticulturists are turning one of the wettest starts to the year on record into a garden that’s primed for spring. Team leader Helen ...

19 Helmi 31min

The wildlife wonders of hazel, the science of winter wellbeing and hot crops from Wisley

The wildlife wonders of hazel, the science of winter wellbeing and hot crops from Wisley

This week, as its delicate catkins unfurl on bare branches, Digital Science Editor Olivia Drake introduces this month’s RHS Wildlife Wonder plant — the hazel – which not only supplies queen bumblebees...

12 Helmi 34min

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