These guys do brilliant work, linking social care and horticulture. Please give them a RT or donation if you can. Mires Beck Nursery 🌱🌱

Fed up of Box Blight and caterpillars decimating your hedges? I spoke to Matthew Pottage about what you can grow instead that will give you the same results The RHS #GardeningTwitter #GardeningX

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Come along to the Bonsai Show on 4-5 May at RHS Hilltop and see beautiful spring-themed displays. Experts will be on hand for advice, as well as trimming and care demonstrations.

Plan your visit at rhs.org.uk/gardens/wisley…

If you’ve walked near Battleston Hill recently, you may have spotted the tall Paulownia fortunei Fast Blue ('Minfast').

Its lilac-blue flowers can be seen from afar but just take a look at the delicate detail seen up close here.

Plan your visit at rhs.org.uk/wisley.

A brilliant read… The RHS RHS Garden Wisley

Have you seen the #tulip display in the Trials Garden?

It’s a trial of 80 varieties, all either lily-flowered or fringed tulips. To be granted the Award of Garden Merit (AGM), judges will be looking for flower form, impact and uniformity, as well as weather and pest resistance.

Actually rather nice to have a spring that’s not bone dry (in the SE anyway), just feels tiresome after such a wet winter!

Explore the highs and lows of indoor gardening and learn how to achieve your houseplant haven in this masterclass with Jane Perrone and Matt Pottage on 23 April at 6:30pm 🌵
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Gosh this is fabulous, almost like a mini stone pine!

New purchase- Taraxacum pseudoroseanum- one for a pot and one to naturalise in turf. If I’ve got to have dandelions- well, let them be pink….

Eucalyptus dalrympleana, also known as the mountain gum or white gum. It's clear to see how this beautiful tree gets the latter name.

Glowing today on Battleston Hill RHS Garden Wisley

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What an awesome day at Spetchley Park ! I had no idea how amazing the plant collection was, and Matthew Pottage , Liz our archivist and I got to nerd out with their team and family about the awesome Ellen Willmott and her sister Rose. 😍

The scent on these is good enough to eat. An absolute favourite.

The new Summerhouse in Oakwood, the historic heart of RHS Wisley, opened today. The structure has been installed to pay homage to horticultural icon Ellen Willmott, who spearheaded the acquisition of Oakwood by the RHS, which would go on to become RHS Wisley as we know it today.

Very impressive mahonia Windsor Great Park #SavillGarden and not one I’ve seen before. It’s Mahonia Bokrafoot and looks like a hugely improved aquifolium type. Apparently lots of blue berries later!

In studies of the flowering phenology of Japanese Cherries these two mark the middle of the 'Mid' season. Prunus 'Kanzan' (left) flowers just before P. avium 'Plena'. Things like P. x yedoensis and P. 'Shirotate' are distant memories now.

Throw back to my #AprilFool 2 years ago 🤭

👏 Matthew Pottage

Different shades of emerging #Boehmeria . #nationalcollection Plant Heritage

Nature inspiration at the stunning Angie Lewin exhibition Watts Gallery - Artists' Village Alistair Burtenshaw Matthew Pottage #Surrey

Let the planting commence 🌱

The Glasshouse Landscape borders at RHS Garden Wisley are heading towards completion, with donors and gardeners busy planting thousands of plants.

Find out more with designer Piet Oudolf and RHS Wisley Curator Matthew Pottage: rhs.org.uk/gardens/wisley…