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The Garden Show Season Has Arrived!
Spring is here, summer’s on its way and it’s time to enjoy the fruits of other people’s labour. Yes, garden show season is almost upon us and there’s a lot to see.
Garden shows in the UK come in all styles and sizes, so you’ll be able to pick one that appeals to you. Whether you want to go to a big show and pick up some tips and bargains or to a small private viewing, there’ll be something for you.
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) puts on regular shows throughout the summer, most famously the Chelsea Flower Show at the end of May, in central London. Here you’ll find show gardens laid out in a huge variety of styles – Mediterranean, woodland, cottage gardens, water gardens, secret gardens, contemporary designs and gardens designed by celebrity gardeners.
Is Urban Roof Garden Possible?
A roof garden is any garden situated on the roof a building. A flat or gently sloped roof transformed into a landscape environment.
These are grown plants atop structure that started during ancient times, about 2,500-3,000 years ago in Rome and Mesopotamia. It became popular in the 19th century. Here are some benefits of Roof Garden:
Very attractive & decorative
It can provide food & other useful plants
It helps in controlling environment temperature (reduce heat loss during winter & heat gain in summer)
It is considered as architectural enhancement and
For recreational opportunities
It promotes biodiversity; valuable inner city habitat and feeding stations especially for insects and birds.
It controls flood
It creates usable space for people
About Botanical Gardens
A botanical garden is a place in which plants are grown and displayed primarily for scientific and educational purposes. A botanical garden consists chiefly of a collection of living plants, grown out-of-doors or under glass in greenhouses and conservatories. It usually includes, in addition, a collection of dried plants, or herbarium, and such facilities as lecture rooms, laboratories, libraries, museums, and experimental or research plantings. Concrete fountains and wall water fountains are often included in the display of botanical gardens.
The plants in a botanical garden may be arranged according to one or more subdivisions of botanical science. The arrangements may be systematic (by plant classification), ecological (by relation to environment), or geographic (by region of origin). The larger botanical gardens often include special groupings, such as rock gardens, water gardens, wildflower gardens, and collections of horticultural groups produced by plant breeding, such as roses, tulips, or rhododendrons.