Horticulture News from Around the World: Here are three stories from all around the world that focus on vegetables! 1. Mega-Artichokes to Power Homes? (LONDON) – Reuters: Spanish farmers are growing three-meter high artichokes for burning in special power stations to produce electricity, the Independent newspaper reported on Thursday. The genetically-modified monster vegetables, which boast [Continue]
Since 1913, the Chelsea Flower Show has been a showcase of the very best of English gardening and one of the leading events of gardening and horticultural season. Attended by royalty, celebrities and a very keen public, it is a treasured tradition each year at the end of May. The show actually started quite a [Continue]
Horticulture News from Around the World: “Robots slug it out in the killing fields” by Adrian Lee. From The Times, Jan 08, 2000. The slug, bane of gardener and farmer alike, should be afraid. Very afraid. Scientists have developed a robot that not only seeks and destroys the pests but is powered by fuel [Continue]
by Judith Brand and Cyril Hume. November 18, 1999 will be a date to remember for Canadian garden enthusiasts. On that day the Land Conservancy of British Columbia (TLC) negotiated an option to purchase the Abkhazi Garden in Victoria, Canada’s “City of Gardens.” Only a few months earlier neighbours had learned of a developer’s plans [Continue]
Horticulture News from Around the World: Trees that live for 1,000 years astound scientists By Nick Nuttall, Environment Correspondent, The Times SOME trees in the Amazon rainforests are hundreds of years older than previously thought, researchers say. The rapid cycles of growth and decay in the forests had led most experts to estimate that the [Continue]
Gardeners In The News: Mandela’s garden gets a TV makeover By Paul McCann, Media Correspondent, The Times Down the garden path: Mr Mandela returned home to find Alan Titchmarsh, Charlie Dimmock and, right, Tommy Walsh from Ground Force. Photograph: BBC THEY are the famous team of surprise visitors who like to sneak in and rearrange [Continue]
“Neil Harris, a mistletoe grower in England, is full of Christmas cheer at the thought of a big demand for his crop this year, due to a ban on imported French plants” AUCTIONEERS holding the first mistletoe sale of the year are expecting fierce competition today for restricted native stocks in time for Christmas amid [Continue]
Horticulture News from Around the World: A Revolutionary Seawater Greenhouse Offers Hope in the Desert by Nick Nuttal, Environmental Correspondent, The Times, UK PEOPLE living in the world’s arid regions could enjoy fresh water courtesy of a British architect and his revolutionary seawater greenhouse. The pioneering building, which won an architectural award at the Design [Continue]
A GARDENER was almost buried alive yesterday when the ground opened up beneath him and he fell 6ft down a hole while mowing a judge’s lawn. David Lonsdale, 41, is thought to have lain unconscious in the hole for an hour before recovering and remembering that he had his mobile telephone in his pocket. [Continue]