Hints and tips:
...vote of visitors and spectators, not RHS judges....
...In a 2021 poll by YouGov for the Horticultural Trades Association, 35 per cent of British adults who responded said they used their garden or outdoor space to grow their own herbs, fruit or vegetables....
...Its garden is a relaxed mix of semi-formal beds with herbs, wild-flower areas, woven hazel and Welsh oak gates and garden furniture....
...The World Food Garden demonstrates ways to grow RHS-recommended crops as well as herbs, edible flowers and fruit and vegetables from around the globe....
...It merges into a wild-flower border where, among poppies, evening primrose and feverfew, a clump of rosebay willow herb stands proud....
...He loves using self-seeders including bronze fennel, erigeron, centranthus and herbs, as well as spring bulbs that will naturalise over time....
...Others will hark to the garden’s past with regimented rows of vegetables, herbs and cut flowers....
...Tended by the congregation at Trinity Methodist church in Blaydon, where the food bank is held, the herb garden has been developed with support from the Royal Horticultural Society....
...lightinnovation.com, £249 Herb kits Newlands Nursery is a longstanding exhibitor at RHS shows but this is its first time at Chelsea....
...The best gift I’ve given recently was RHS membership to my wife, Anne-Marie. We both love gardens and RHS Wisley is just up the road. I think it was a very cheering gift for both of us....
...According to the RHS it has “made huge strides in school gardening”....
...Coriander, in my mind, is a delicate, fragrant herb that was impossible to grow at home. Not true....
...Last year, it renegotiated its deal with the RHS to take the partnership forward for another three years....
...The warm, humid air is sweet with the aroma of herbs ready to give their lives to the glory of pesto, tomato sauces and salads. Close your eyes and you could be in Umbria....
...I know epimediums well, but not his vigorous Fröhnleiten, which the RHS Plantfinder shows is widely available....
...Photographs: RHS; Marck Reclame; Stuart C. Wilson/WPA Pool/Getty Images...
...Christopher Woodward is director of the Garden Museum in London Photographs: Rob Cardillo; Pennsylvania Horticultural Society; Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images; Visions of America, LLC/Alamy...
...Martone St Germain men’s bike, £995, conranshop.co.uk 3 Rich in arnica, winter green, capsicum and vanilla, and fragranced with the plants and herbs of Mont Ventoux — the most epic of Tour de France climbs...
...Conversely, growers for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show are frantically busy. As I write, it is only 19 weeks until the 2015 event and, although I should not worry, I do. Every year is a challenge....
...Photographs: Neil Hepworth/RHS...
...Chervil is the thinking woman’s herb, and she will not fail to grow the dark-leaved Vertissimo well....
...Every May the drill was the same, with curators of the four RHS gardens, myself included, being wheeled into place to give the invited great and good, from royals to FTSE 100 chief executives, the inside...
...The RHS website has a list of rabbit-resistant plants but admits that Flopsy will eat almost any plant if it feels inclined to do so....
...Why On one side is a quarter-acre walled garden planted with climbing roses, quince trees, lavender, herbs, spring and winter vegetables, and flowers....
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