|  Sustainable
Gardening Practices
The
Royal Horticultural Society in the UK is committed to promoting
sustainable gardening.
The Royal Horticultural Society,
the UK’s leading gardening charity, is committed to
encouraging gardeners and all those with an interest in
the environment, to be sustainable.
| If
you are interested in visiting one of the RHS gardens,
see
information on RHS Rosemoor in Devon. |
Through a series
of guidelines about conservation and environmental issues,
the RHS
seeks to engage a wide audience to adopt environmentally
friendly gardening practices. Through an extensive research
and advice programme, the RHS continues to find ways to
achieve horticultural excellence without compromising the
environment.
RHS commitment to
biodiversity
The RHS is seeking to encourage all gardeners to think constructively
about the relationship of their garden to habitats, wildlife
and biodiversity. By highlighting the compatibility between
good gardening practice and biodiversity it is hoped to
bring about biodiversity gain in gardens. The RHS is committed
to enhancing biodiversity through:
- Maintaining plant genetic
diversity by growing a wide range of fruit and vegetable
cultivars, and ornamental plants
- Providing relevant scientific
and practical advice to its members and carrying out scientific
trials and research that benefit horticulture in general
- Monitoring, recording
and enhancing biodiversity at its gardens
- Employing horticultural
best practice and encouraging a sustainable approach to
gardening
- Employing integrated pest
management in its plant production and display glasshouses
- Deploring the illegal
collection of plants from the wild
- Providing advice on the
control of invasive alien plants and banning their sale
at RHS Gardens and Shows
- Reducing chemical use
in its gardens
- Minimising peat use and
carrying out trials of peat-free composts
- Ensuring that wood products
used in RHS Gardens, or offered for sale at RHS Shows,
are genuinely certified as coming from forests that are
well managed with full regard to the environment
|
Amateur Gardener