New life for the glasshouse at Hillsborough Castle

Posted on December 20, 2019 by Historic Royal Palaces

It's been an exceptionally busy year for the gardens team at Hillsborough Castle, with ...

Mistletoe in the palace gardens: why do kiss under it?

Posted on December 20, 2019 by Graham Dillamore

One of the most popular enquires the gardeners get during winter concerns strange lumps ...

Hampton Court's worst enemy: how we deal with the mealybug

Posted on October 21, 2019 by Claire Ford

Here in the Hampton Court Palace Nursery, we grow over 100,000 bedding plants per ...

Take a tour of Kew's Kitchen Garden

Posted on September 10, 2019 by Dennis Mantle

Originally a small residential garden, the Kitchen Garden at Kew Palace was created and ...

Displaying Queen Mary ll’s Exoticks Collection

Posted on August 28, 2019 by Martin Einchcomb

You may well have heard of Queen Mary II’s Exoticks Collection (seventeenth century spelling) ...

Dahlia season at Hampton Court Palace

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Abigail Rose

 July marked the start of the dahlia season, but it is as the days ...

Plant hunters: Victorian plants are brought to Kensington Palace

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Graham Dillamore

As we all know from our history lessons at school, the Victorian era in ...

Herbs through history: from the Tudors to today

Posted on July 29, 2019 by Hilary Theaker

Central to the kitchen garden at Hampton court is its collection of herbs, and ...

Wildflowers bloom at Kensington Palace

Posted on July 5, 2019 by Historic Royal Palaces

After a lot of hard work this winter by the gardens team at Kensington ...