Cathy Rollinson

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📢 Exciting career opportunity at the UK's oldest botanic garden! The University of Oxford Botanic Garden is seeking a Botanic Garden Curator & Head of Horticulture. Applications Close: Feb 14th, 2025, Interviews: Week of March 10th, 2025. Visit our website for details! 🌿

🌿Daphne bholua ‘Jacqueline Postill’🌿Erica x darleyensis ‘Furzey’🌿Mahonia x media ‘Winter Sun’🌿Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’🌿Chimonanthus praecox ‘Grandiflorus’. Be inspired by these winter-flowering stars. The Winter Garden is at its best now till the end of March. [2/2]

We’re pleased to share that our Winter Garden recently starred in @WhichUK Gardening magazine’s trial of winter-flowering shrubs. Conducted by @JaniceShipp it assessed plants on flower duration, impact, scent & insect appeal & form. See some of their Best Buys below. [1/2]

The Great Seed Swap, 1 February🌱 Join us for the biggest collection of seeds we’ve ever had in one place including rare and unusual seeds collected from RHS Wisley! Visitors can bring their own garden collected seed to swap or buy for a donation. rhs.org.uk/gardens/wisley…

🧵 30. According to a 17th century proverb, a COCKSTRIDE—literally, one step of a cockerel—is the amount by which the days seem to lengthen after the New Year.

@Concraigsmith @clayton_philip Some of them have principles, believe it or not!

@hpscmr @clayton_philip I can’t imagine many gardening bigwigs would turn down a gong, if only for the sake of the horticulture industry.

The whole honours system is corrupt and needs a major overhaul IMO. Can anyone explain why Stephen Fry gets a knighthood when Alan Titchmarsh, who has done so much for horticulture and for charities, is just a CBE? Why do so many well-paid actors get top honours?

@clayton_philip @Concraigsmith Remember that not everyone who is offered an honour accepts it.

@Concraigsmith I’d like to know why wonderful Roy Lancaster does not have a knighthood with all he does for horticulture. Perhaps not enough bowing and scraping - although Titchmarsh does plenty of that and it’s apparently not working. In fact does ANYONE in horticulture have a knighthood?

Hardy Cyclamen coum, ferns and pulmonarias are all happy shade loving companions… #plantsforshade #shadesofgreen #foliage #plants #lovegardens #shadeloving #cyclamen #hardycyclamen #winter

Honey bees account for 57% of city of London pollinators 11% in towns nationally, due of course to people installing hives to help bees. But so many hives compete with other bees according to this research from 'planting London together'. #greenercities

Are charities looking for people to help pensioners fill out pension credit forms?

@dunnjons @CR_UK @macmillancancer @NHS_Shetland I only drop into X very occasionally these days, so I'm pleased I've come in on the positive end of this story. it was a shock to read the news and I wish you all the very best.

I promised any mentions of my cancer would be at best occasional. This, hopefully, will be the last for a very long time indeed. A short thread follows - please bear with it. 🧵 (Or don’t - that’s okay too!) News last week was the best I could possibly have hoped for… (1/#)

So lovely 😍 The trial of Helenium @RHSHarlowCarr is reaching full flower & will look superb in a week or two. It's a great chance to see these under-used plants together because there's a huge range.

#News #BursaryScheme HPS Bursary Reports, March – July 2024 dlvr.it/T9vcSS

@GuyBarter I have picked a total of 7 pods of peas from repeated sowings from one packet of pea seeds. A combination of failure to germinate and massacre by molluscs. Oh well, there's always next year.

Only one pea picking left, after good crops since mid-May. Main veg, with braid beans, for early summer. If emergence had been >25% the crop would have been embarrassingly abundant. As it is there have been plenty. #allotment

Here’s a great passionflower for the impatient gardener, #passiflora incanata. This one is flowering 6 months after sowing. It is hardy if kept dry, produces edible fruit, readily crosses with other passionflowers &freely produces pretty scented flowers. What more could you want?

What a day at @The_RHS Tatton Flower Show! A Gold medal for our Floral Marquee display (first 12/12 judging score too :-) ) and the visitors loved our Moongate Garden. The show is packed with inspiration - open till Sunday. Hope you can make it....

Book your tickets to visit our garden: findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/42454/r… @SussexNGS #nationalgardenscheme #opengarden #charityopengarden #sussexgardens #pelhamplants #pelhamplantsnursery

Yeah gold! 😃 Got to love a Gold Medal @The_RHS #RhsTattonflowershow Come and see us stand FM31 #Heuchera #Heucherella #Tiarella

Wild carrot flowers- fabulous at every stage;