RHS Affiliated Society is Wild About Gardens!
Did you know EBTS UK is affiliated to the RHS and they are wild about gardens…
RHS Hyde Hall Topiary Course
Last month EBTS UK ran our first topiary course at RHS Hyde Hall focusing on Tabletop Topiary – pruning plants for small spaces.
Cressy Hall in Country Life Magazine
Fantastic article and photos of the topiary at Cressy Hall in Country Life Magazine
Australia & New Zealand get a Buxus & Topiary Society
EBTS UK members set up a new boxwood and topiary society for Australia and New Zealand
World Topiary Day – EBTS France Press Release
EBTS France held a press conference at the Cercle de l’Union Interalliée in Paris to announce their collaboration with Levens Hall in promoting World Topiary Day
Chiltern’s estate box woodland: selective extraction
Winter 21-22 EBTS member and box woodland and timber expert Huw Crompton describes how boxwood makes its way from standing trees into the hands of musical instrument makers around the world. The estate straddles high and low ground on the north west facing Chilterns escarpment just south of Chinnor in Oxfordshire, close to the M40. […]
2021 International Checklist of Cultivated Buxus L.
The latest edition of the International Checklist of Cultivated Buxus L. has now been made available
A Modern Hedge
This November topiary artist Charlotte Molesworth undertook the modernising of her boxwood hedges
Delightful Derbyshire & Knockout Nottinghamshire
Two days of delightful EBTS UK garden visits in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire
Archive boxes in use at RHS Herbarium
The herbarium archive boxes sponsored by donations from EBTS members are now in use.
National Collection of Buxus – disappointing news
Intellectual property rights dispute, affects the UK National Collection of Buxus
Buxus National Collection Update
Andrew Napier gives us the latest on how the collection has faired over the last year or so
New tool to fight Box Moths
A mating disruption product is registered for UK professional use and EBTS UK trials it at Ham House
Winner of the Henchman 3 Leg Adjustable Tripod Ladder
Henchman offered an EBTS UK member a chance to own a 3 Leg Adjustable Tripod Ladders – Andrew in Southampton was the lucky winner
Treasures in and around Tisbury
A wonderful lunch in a members garden plus two amazing gardens visited.
RHS Home of Gardening Science Opens
EBTS UK was invited to have a look round and see its name engraved on a sweet chestnut slat.
Royal Garden of Excellence
Congratulations to our EBTS UK member in Warsaw at the Museum of King Jan III’s Palace at Wilanów on being awarded the Royal Garden of Excellence.
Gardens around Salisbury, Wiltshire and Hampshire
After all the restrictions of the pandemic lockdown, EBTS UK was finally able to go and see some gardens as a group of 30.
BTM spreads to the USA
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has confirmed the presence of box tree moth, Cydalima perspectalis, in the USA
World Topiary Day
Levens Hall in the Lake District, will be thrilling visitors as it celebrates its inaugural World Topiary Day.
Topiarius 25
Topiarius in 2021 celebrates some of the world’s most celebrated garden designers, old and new, who use topiary
EBTS on Gardeners World – again!
You may have noticed that the BBC’s Gardeners’ World programme (2021-Episode 6) repeated their piece filmed at Ham House which featured EBTS UK Chairman, Chris Poole. The item talked about the trials EBTS had co-ordinated at Ham of box tree moth deterrents. Sadly the trials, which over the two and a half year they were […]