Weekend Reading 5/24/24

Welcome to Garden Center magazine's Weekend Reading, a weekly round-up of consumer garden media stories meant to help IGCs focus marketing efforts, spark inspiration and start conversations with consumers.

This week: Updates from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the cicadas are coming and how gardening improves sleep.

Garden with terracotta 3D-print bricks wins Chelsea flower show green medal, The Guardian

A garden built with terracotta made into 3-D-printed bricks — with no concrete and completely sustainable materials — has won the first green medal at the Chelsea Flower Show for being the most environmentally sustainable design.

Chelsea Flower Show 2024: Children plot garden takeover, BBC

There's a "no adults allowed" garden at the Chelsea Flower Show this year. Adults can get in if they pledge to plant a tree to help the environment, donate to the RHS school gardening campaign or find a flower that starts with the first letter of their name.

For more updates from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024 (May 21-25, 2024), click here.

Plenty of brooding as cicadas emerge, The News-Gazette (Illinois)

Periodical cicadas are the longest-living insects on earth, spending either 13 or 17 years underground before emerging to mate and complete their life cycle. They only occur in eastern North America, and this year is especially significant because some areas will experience the overlapping emergence of both 13- and 17-year cicada broods, writes Ryan Pankau, a horticulture educator with UI Extension

People who spend more time gardening tend to have fewer sleep problems, PsyPost - Psychology Research News

A new study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders has found that individuals who engage in gardening are less likely to suffer from multiple sleep complaints compared to those who do not exercise, writes Eric W. Dolan.

Enjoy your reading, have a great weekend and we'll see you next week!