My Garden

If you are visiting Wisley this weekend for the Taste of Autumn Event, you will find the trials team in the Marquee, in front of the restaurant, with an outstanding selection of vegetables and flowers from the trials field and model vegetable garden. You'll also be able to taste some Squash Soup... 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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

The Fruit Trials Sub-Committee met yesterday for a second assessment of the summer fruiting cultivars in the Raspberry trial. During this meeting they began what will be an ongoing assessment of the blackberry and hybrid berry collection at Wisley. This will take place over the next few years with a... Read more..

The pinks trials are now both well into flower and the slightly earlier flowering miniature and dwarf pinks trial is looking particularly colourful at the moment. Our Pinks and Carnations Open Day takes place on Wednesday 18 June alongside the British National Carnation Society Show. There will be a... Read more..

The Vegetable Trials Subcommittee met on Thursday this week to assess the 34 entries in the early spinach trial http://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/trials_list.asp . During the assessment 8 existing AGM awards were reconfirmed and 11 cultivars recommended for the AGM for the first time. The long and the short... Read more..

The current RHS Plant Finder lists over 70,000 different plants and there are vegetables and many more that never find their way into the book. But how do you know which are the best? Well, the RHS tests many of them at its garden at Wisley and gives the prestigious Award of Garden Merit to those few... Read more..