Bursary reports

If you are awarded a bursary you will be required to produce a written report within three months of completion of your project

Read previous reports

RHS Libraries are a great resource of information when preparing your application, researching for your project, or writing up your report. Downloadable PDF copies of previous reports can be requested by emailing an RHS Libraries Bursary Report scan request form (112kB pdf) to the Wisley library at [email protected].

Please note: Some bursaries are kept in off-site storage, and it will take up to four weeks to fulfil a request.

Recent Bursary Reports

© Melissa Bennett

Melissa Bennett, Exploring Desert Plants

South Arizona, 15 – 29 June 2023
DBG in Phoenix, Arizona is a world class, contemporary and diverse botanical garden with a mission to ‘advance excellence in education, research, exhibition, and conservation of desert plants of the world with an emphasis on the Sonoran Desert’ (Desert Botanical Garden 2023a).

Download the report (2.5MB pdf)

  • Sally Bower – Nature rising from the rubble – gravel and recycled aggregate gardens in Essex and London, 2022
  • Jennifer Whittaker – Right Plant, Right Place: A study of the use and manipulation of micro-climates in Cornwall, 2020
  • RHS Garden Wisley students – The Gardens and Plant of Andalucia, 2019
  • Robert Blackhall-Miles & Ben Ram – A further study of the high altitude Proteaceae in the Western Cape of South Africa, 2018

Emma Leaper – Aotearoa

New Zealand, 14 October – 7 November 2022
New Zealand’s environment is unique, with high levels of endemism in its flora and fauna, which has evolved quite separately from the rest of the world. The country extends across both temperate and subtropical biomes, and its ecosystems are hugely varied.

Download the report (11.9MB pdf)

© Emma Leaper

  • Scott Galloway – A molecular investigation into the genus Bergenia, 2022
  • Richard Eltringham – A summary of the American Horticultural Therapy Association 2019 Annual Conference
  • Joseph Evans – Flowers, Fronds & Forests: North East UK, 2018
  • Charlotte Bancroft – Following in Harold Comber’s Footsteps, 2018


Got a question for the Bursaries team?

Get in touch with our dedicated team and they’ll help get you started:
The RHS Bursaries Co-ordinator, RHS Garden Wisley, Woking, Surrey GU23 6QB
Call: 01483 479719
Email: [email protected]
 

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