My Garden

Welcome to this new blog shared by the team at the RHS Trials Office at Wisley and plantsman Graham Rice. Here in the Trials Office we'll be bringing the latest news from the trials and of the awards which are given. Of course, we'll also be continuing to publish the final trial reports, AGM... Read more..

Through out the trials this year at Wisley we are reviewing the chemicals which we use to grow our plants to a high standard. We feel that the general public do not like to or wish to use too many chemicals when growing plants, so we are trying to reflect that in our work. This year we have started a... Read more..

In case you were wondering what the five raised beds alongside the Begernia trial 2007-2009 were for, one of the Roscoea planted there in has risen to the occasion to give visitors to the trials field a sneak preview. Just two weeks after planting, Roscoea cautleyoides AGM (H4) 1993 has broken the surface... Read more..

Since the demolition of the old glasshouses, lots of work has been carried out to clear the site and prepare it for our amazing maize maze. A 1 metre border of sunflowers was planted around the edges of the site on Friday using 5,000 seeds of sunflower 'Bicentenary'. These will provide lots of... Read more..

The Floral Trials Sub-Committee made another of their bi-weekly visits on Tuesday. The invited seed trials; Tagetes (Marigolds), French & Afro-French and the Hardy Annuals have really come on in the last couple of weeks and we spent quite some time assessing these two trials. As you stand at the... Read more..