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Don’t give wildlife a fright this spooky season
How to enjoy Halloween and Bonfire Night with these wildlife-friendly tips from the RSPB With Halloween festivities and Bonfire Night preparations underway, we mustn’t forget about the wildlife on our doorsteps as the RSPB shares its top tips when planning…
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Gardening charity awarded hat-trick of National Plant Collections
Sustainable gardening charity Garden Organic has been recognised for its critically important conservation work by scooping its third National Plant Collection from Plant Heritage. The charity’s Heritage Seed Library, based at Ryton Gardens near Coventry, has just been named as…
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BECOME A SEED PARENT!
A gardening charity is asking people to adopt at-risk heritage seeds to make sure they continue to bloom for future generations. The Heritage Seed Library, run by sustainable gardening charity Garden Organic, holds the National Collection of Heritage Vegetables and…
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Show us your garden and be in with the chance to win!
Love your vegetable garden? We want to see it! Send us just a few pictures of your plot and you could be crowned one of our Top Plotters and be featured in Kitchen Garden magazine next year. But that’s not…
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Come to the Virtual Village Fete!
Coronation Gardens for Food and Nature project was brought about by His Majesty King Charles’s passion for community food growing, and is a partnership between The Wildlife Trusts, the WI, Garden Organic and Incredible Edible. The project is all about…
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‘SEED GUARDIANS’ WIN ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD
Volunteer gardeners and growers from Garden Organic’s Heritage Seed Library have scooped an ‘Environment Champion Award’ for their work protecting rare vegetable seeds. The Seed Guardians were announced as winners in the community category of the 12th Community Inspiration Awards…
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National Trust announces major garden investments
The National Trust has announced that £1 million of funding from Blue Diamond Garden Centres will be spent on garden and plant conservation projects, as it enters the third year of its brand licensing agreement with the garden centre…
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New partnership for Garden Organic helps protect and conserve garden wildlife
Sustainable gardening charity Garden Organic has forged a new partnership with The Wildlife Community, an online community and shop dedicated to connecting people with nature. Like Garden Organic, The Wildlife Community is committed to halting the dangerous drop in UK…
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Where are all the Butterflies?
Wet weather and low temperatures causing havoc for butterflies during Big Butterfly Count Leading wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation has revealed very low numbers of butterflies have been spotted so far in its annual Big Butterfly Count. On average participants are…
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GARDEN ORGANIC CALLS ON GOVERNMENT TO BAN URBAN PESTICIDES
The charity Garden Organic is urging the UK government to ban the use of pesticides in urban areas – to stop harming wildlife, water courses and human health. As founding members of the Pesticide Collaboration, they’re demanding the government halts…
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Royal seal of approval for sustainable gardening charity
His Majesty The King has announced his continued patronage of sustainable gardening charity Garden Organic. As a keen organic gardener and well-known environmentalist, The King has always championed practices closely aligned with those of the charity. His Majesty became a…
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Even the tiniest gardens can help in the fight against biodiversity loss
It doesn’t matter what size your garden is when it comes to nurturing and protecting wildlife, says Garden Organic – as it shares a mini 1m-by-1m ‘Biodiversity Bed’ for small gardens to mark the UN’s International Day for Biological Diversity…
