National Savings & Investments (NS&I) has announced the winners of its Growing Gardens Today competition and selected 3 sustainable garden designs to be built at BBC Gardeners' World Live 2010.The winners, based in Devon, Reading and North Yorkshire, will all receive a £5,000...

Food, Inc. premiered on Monday 8 February and is now showing nationwide. This Oscar nominated documentary lifts the lid on industrial agriculture. The Soil Association is the official charity partner and we offer positive solutions to the issues raised in the film. We’ve already received a...

As part of an ongoing programme of engagement with Government the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) recently met with representatives from the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (DBIS). DBIS is a department that is becoming increasingly important for the garden industry and the...

An orchid researcher based on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, and collaborating with researchers at Kew, has used motion-sensitive night cameras to capture the first known occurrence of a cricket functioning as a pollinator of flowering plants. For the full fascinating story...

New research from the Soil Association, launched in November, revealed that if all UK farmland was converted to organic farming, at least 3.2 million tonnes of carbon would be taken up by the soil each year - the equivalent of taking nearly 1 million cars off the road.The research’s key...

BBC Breathing Spaces Campaign have achieved a new wworld record for planting trees by hand.The previous record of 18,124 was beaten on Saturday 5th December 20094,000 oaks were among 26,422 native trees put in the ground at Gransha Park, alongside the River Foyle in Northern Ireland. That's...

Ecosia the new green search engine has been launched and it looks quite exciting! Things like solar powered web hosting ahve been around for a while but it is the searches that create so much CO2 - this search engine aims to combat this by donating funds to WWF to compensate for these...

The annual Garden Media Awards lunch was held today. The awards are in detail on the GMG website  Many congratulations to all the winners

Many thanks to Linette for her kind words of encouragement and for all her fantastic work in getting The Garden Network started. I have always been impressed by the professionalism of the site and have watched it grow in content and members.I am delighted to have this opportunity to take the...