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The Award of Garden Merit is a mark of quality awarded, since 1922, to garden plants (including trees, vegetables and decorative plants) by the United Kingdom, Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). Awards are made annually after plant trials intended to judge the plants' performance under UK growing conditions.
"Lambrook Mist" was selected about 30 years later by Andrew Norton, a subsequent owner of the garden. Both gained their Awards of Garden Merit during the RHS Artemisia Trial 1991–3. Cultivar "Silver Ghost" is a taller, silver plant, which flowers much later (August–September) than typical absinthium (June–July) in Britain, so holds its ...
The flora of Great Britain and Ireland is one of the best documented in the world. There are 1390 native species and over 1100 well-established non-natives documented on the islands. There are 1390 native species and over 1100 well-established non-natives documented on the islands.
In December 1999, a BBC Radio 4 poll of 20 prominent historians, politicians and commentators for The Westminster Hour produced the verdict that Churchill was the best British prime minister of the 20th century, with Lloyd George in second place and Clement Attlee in third place.
'Graham Thomas' is an upright yellow shrub rose, 4 to 10 ft (1.2–3.0 m) in height, with a 3 to 5 ft (0.91–1.52 m) spread. The large 4 in (100 mm) flowers have a full, cupped bloom form and are borne mostly solitary or in large, long-stemmed clusters of 3 to 9 flowers. [1]
In 2002 Plantlife conducted a "County Flowers" public survey to assign flowers to each of the counties of the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man. [1] The results of this campaign designated a single plant species to a "county or metropolitan area" in the UK and Isle of Man. [2] Some English counties already had flowers traditionally associated with them before 2002, [3] and which were ...
The creation of a British horticultural society was suggested by John Wedgwood (son of Josiah Wedgwood) in 1800.His aims were fairly modest: he wanted to hold regular meetings, allowing the society's members the opportunity to present papers on their horticultural activities and discoveries, to encourage discussion of them, and to publish the results.
Senegal tea plant: Gymnocoronis spilanthoides 15 August 2019 Sosnowsky’s hogweed: Heracleum sosnowskyi 3 August 2016 Tree of Heaven: Ailanthus altissima 15 August 2019 Vine-like fern: Lygodium japonicum 15 August 2019 Water hyacinth: Eichhornia crassipes 3 August 2016 Water-primrose: Ludwigia grandiflora 3 August 2016 Whitetop weed ...