Isn't it sad when you've trained or worked somewhere for a while, but then move on to pastures new and leave good friends and colleagues behind.  Well, in 1908, just three years after the RHS moved to its first permanent garden here at Wisley, the Gardens Club was established as a means of keeping students and employees past and present in touch with each other.

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Over the last few months regular visitors to the Glasshouse would have been watching with interest the gradual formation of a big bunch of bananas.  In the middle of the Tropical Zone a banana plant flowered a few months ago and Musa acuminata ‘Dwarf Cavendish’ (AAA Group) AGM has been growing bananas ever since.  Yesterday we noticed the first one had ripened, meaning it was time to harvest. 

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A visit to Wisley is a visit to a truly inspirational garden.  There is so much to see here.  But there is also so much that our visitors generally don’t see and that is the behind-the-scenes science that we carry out in the Laboratory, the beautiful 'country house' (actually purpose built as a lab in 1914-1916) at the front of the Garden that provides such a magical backdrop.

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We had a street party last Thursday evening.  Witan Street is a development of 8 very small gardens up beside the Orchards Café, opposite this year’s Maize Maze (on the site of the old Glasshouse).  The 7th and 8th gardens have just been completed, so we had a ‘party’ to celebrate and commemorate the official opening. 

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On Tuesday 24th June, Wisley was transformed into a midsummer wonderland by the WI with their scarecrow-inspired evening. The night was in honour of the 90th Anniversary of the Surrey Federation WIs and thousands of WI members from across the county came to celebrate.Click on www.thewi.org.uk/surrey or http://www.thewi.org.uk/standard.aspx?id=11462 for more information.

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