National Science Week 2013 comes to a close this weekend (March 24th) – and the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has been hard at work sharing its extensive knowledge of some of the most fascinating properties of plants as part of the occasion.
Some of these absolute gems of information included the fact that there more than 1,100 cultivated varieties of potato – including many that are blue.
Furthermore, giant miscanthus grass can be used to produce a biofuel – and innovative firms are hard at work developing ways of consuming this that will hopefully reduce the population's reliance on fossil fuels.
Learning families manager at the RHS Alexis Pym said she hopes the measures taken by her organisation will inspire more people to pick up the garden tools and get to work outdoors.
"We may be planting seeds of interest in visitors that will blossom into a new generation of plant scientists and happy gardeners," she commented.
