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• Help Wanted by Help & Advice

  Published on 11 Feb 2009 at 02:28 PM

  We would be most grateful for your opinions on our new advice information sheets. 

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• What’s Hot in RHS Help and Advice?

  Published on 10 Feb 2009 at 05:24 PM

  In response to widespread reports in the media of snowdrops flowering very late this year, our Press Office have asked us to investigate.  Read More... RHS Help and Advice - Member's Question of the Week Published on 09 Feb 2009 at 04:00 PM  Mr J of Leicestershire, sent pictures of his Colorado spruce tree (Picea pungens), bought as a specimen in November 2006, which started suffering foliage damage in late summer in 2007 and again in late summer 2008, gradually affecting much of the tree Read More... Help and Advice Today Published on 03 Feb 2009 at 12:53 PM Severe weather conditions mean that we are still only able to offer a reduced gardening advice service by phone.  Many apologies for this, but we trust the service will return to normal soon Read More... Help and Advice - Snow Published on 02 Feb 2009 at 09:58 AM Unfortunately the road conditions are too severe for all of our advisors to get to Wisley this morning (the gardens are closed) so the RHS Help and Advice Service is currently offering a reduced telephone advice service Read More... Help and Advice - Member's question of the week Published on 30 Jan 2009 at 08:36 AM Pruning advice is always a top question for the RHS Members’ Advice Service.  Few people have plants that look like those in books and if plants have been pruned heavily in the past or have been neglected or both, it is easy to understand why gardeners should be unsure what to do.   Before digital cameras, pruning advice was a tad frustrating. Describing both plants and pruning in words is difficult and informative pictures were harder to take.  But now that members can easily take good pictures that can be emailed to the advice office, pruning advice is pleasure for us and, we hope, gardeners Read More... What's hot in the RHS Member's Help and Advice: Published on 28 Jan 2009 at 05:37 PM We answered 371 questions from 233 people last week, by letter, email, phone and visitors to the Members’ Advisory Centre in the plant centre at Wisley.  This a very quiet week by our standards, even for January, but we often find that better weather is needed to spark people's interest in gardening Read More... Top Plants Published on 22 Jan 2009 at 08:48 PM   Read More... Top Twenty Plants Published on 22 Jan 2009 at 06:13 PM Although the Wisley-based  RHS gardening advice service receives relatively few enquiries in January there is still much to do.  By April we will be very busy indeed and to get ready for the rush we are updating and extending our advisory problem profiles and checking suppliers, particularly of pesticides as these tend to change frequently, and gardeners are unsure what insecticides, fungicides or weedkillers are available.  Read More... Gardening Advice at Chelsea Published on 17 May 2009 at 06:18 PM Chelsea week is a busy one for the advice team as in addition to carrying on as usual with the Member’s Advisory Service we provide an advice desk to help all show visitors.  Read More... Accessibility Contact Us Disclaimer My Garden Site Terms © The Royal Horticultural Society 2009 - RHS Registered Charity No: 222879/SC038262