Environmental/eco-gardening

The effect of climate change on sea levels and weather patterns has been well documented, but it has now emerged that Scotland's forests could be at risk from the lack of summer rainfall.Garden and greenhouse fans may have noticed...

A wildlife gardener and ecologist who began noting the visitation habits of bumblebees in his garden in 2006 was surprised to find they were often failing to take their traditional winter hibernation period.Marc Carlton noted that...

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has revealed that a study is underway at its Garden Wisley site into how different plants attract insects to the garden.It explained that the three-year project kicked off in spring 2009 and will...

A firm which removed a product from shelves in 2008 due to complaints that it was harming vegetable crops in gardens and allotments has won its case to market it once more.Dow AgroSciences stopped selling Aminophyalid after garden...

Gardeners concerned about the effect of greenhouse gasses on their crops are not alone in fearing climate change.Prime minister Gordon Brown has used the Major Economies Forum to warn that there is a real danger of catastrophic consequences...

A charity carrying out a survey of the UK's wildflower populations has noticed a "startling" recovery in numbers.According to the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), conservation organisation Plantlife has discovered that...