Top 5 in Garden News: RHS Will Plant a Fifth Garden and the World's Driest Place is Covered in Blooms by
Issue 12 · Spring Forward · November 1, 2015
This
week in the world of gardening, the UK celebrates heritage apples, the
Royal Horticultural Society will create a fifth garden, and the world's
driest desert has turned pink.
Above: Photo by Mario Ruiz via Smithsonian.
The Atacama Desert in Northern Chile is known as the driest place in the world; some parts have never received rain in recorded history. But heavy storms of rain and snow in March—which caused catastrophic flooding in the region—have brought unusual fall carpets of pink mallow blooms. Read it at the Smithsonian.
Above: RHS Garden Hyde Hall in Essex. Photo via Flickr.
The Royal Horticultural Society has announced that it will create a fifth flagship garden on the grounds of Worsley New Hall in Salford, near Manchester. The RHS will hire a prominent landscape architect to oversee the project, which will be called "RHS Garden Bridgewater" and is slated to open in 2019. Highlights will include a 10-acre kitchen garden and a learning center for schoolchildren. Read it at the Express.
Above: Wisteria in bloom at Sissinghurst. Photo by Jonathan Buckley via the Telegraph.
Over the past two weeks, several wisteria plants have been stolen from residential gardens in North London's Hampstead neighborhood. Mature plants have been taken, as well as potted and hanging plants and small trees. Officials fear that the plants are being stolen to order; mature wisteria plants sell for several hundred pounds each. Read more at Daily Mail.
Above: Photo via The Ingham Swan.
The "basic three" apples found in UK supermarkets are McIntosh Red from Canada, Granny Smith from Australia, and Golden Delicious from France. The nonprofit Common Ground aims to diversify the offerings via Apple Day, a national UK festival held annually on October 21. Founded in 1990, the occasion promotes apple markets and orchard tours across the country in hope of reviving the more than 2,000 estimated UK heritage apple varieties. Read it in the Independent.
Above: Photo via the Joshua Tree Community.
Environmental groups are petitioning the US government to declare the iconic Joshua tree—which exists mainly in the Mohave and Sonoran deserts of the US Southwest—as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act. According to researchers at the University of California, Riverside, climate models suggest that the Joshua tree range could be reduced by up to 90 percent by the end of this century. Says Kierán Suckling of the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, Arizona, "The Desert Southwest and the Arctic are being ripped apart by climate change faster than anywhere else, because they are North America's most extreme ecosystems.” Read it at National Geographic.
For more from this week, see:
World's Driest Place Covered in Blooms
Above: Photo by Mario Ruiz via Smithsonian.
The Atacama Desert in Northern Chile is known as the driest place in the world; some parts have never received rain in recorded history. But heavy storms of rain and snow in March—which caused catastrophic flooding in the region—have brought unusual fall carpets of pink mallow blooms. Read it at the Smithsonian.
RHS to Create Fifth Garden
Above: RHS Garden Hyde Hall in Essex. Photo via Flickr.
The Royal Horticultural Society has announced that it will create a fifth flagship garden on the grounds of Worsley New Hall in Salford, near Manchester. The RHS will hire a prominent landscape architect to oversee the project, which will be called "RHS Garden Bridgewater" and is slated to open in 2019. Highlights will include a 10-acre kitchen garden and a learning center for schoolchildren. Read it at the Express.
Wisteria Thefts in London
Above: Wisteria in bloom at Sissinghurst. Photo by Jonathan Buckley via the Telegraph.
Over the past two weeks, several wisteria plants have been stolen from residential gardens in North London's Hampstead neighborhood. Mature plants have been taken, as well as potted and hanging plants and small trees. Officials fear that the plants are being stolen to order; mature wisteria plants sell for several hundred pounds each. Read more at Daily Mail.
UK Heritage Apple Revival
Above: Photo via The Ingham Swan.
The "basic three" apples found in UK supermarkets are McIntosh Red from Canada, Granny Smith from Australia, and Golden Delicious from France. The nonprofit Common Ground aims to diversify the offerings via Apple Day, a national UK festival held annually on October 21. Founded in 1990, the occasion promotes apple markets and orchard tours across the country in hope of reviving the more than 2,000 estimated UK heritage apple varieties. Read it in the Independent.
Joshua Trees Threatened by Climate Change
Above: Photo via the Joshua Tree Community.
Environmental groups are petitioning the US government to declare the iconic Joshua tree—which exists mainly in the Mohave and Sonoran deserts of the US Southwest—as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act. According to researchers at the University of California, Riverside, climate models suggest that the Joshua tree range could be reduced by up to 90 percent by the end of this century. Says Kierán Suckling of the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, Arizona, "The Desert Southwest and the Arctic are being ripped apart by climate change faster than anywhere else, because they are North America's most extreme ecosystems.” Read it at National Geographic.
For more from this week, see:
- Gardenista Obsessions: Holidays Ahead
- Trending on Remodelista: Color Stories
- Remodelista Obsessions: Mid-Season Stride
- Trending on Gardenista: Bulb Mania
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