Summer’s floral flourish

17 JULY

With so much to see and do, here’s our guide to highlights at this year’s 166th show, when it returns to Harrogate at the Great Yorkshire Showground on July 8-11

It’s now 25 years since the Millennium Seed Bank opened at Kew’s wild botanical garden Wakehurst. In that time it has logged more than 2.5 billion seeds from more than 40,000 wild plants. This summer,

Bathe in the summer glow of RHS Garden Bridgewater’s woodland, allowing time to stop, reflect and join a restorative ‘Shinrin Yoku’, the Japanese practice of Forest Bathing. Your tutor Laura Johnson i

The role of plants in human wellbeing is forefront at this year’s show, reports Ian Hodgson

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