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News & Analysis
The latest news for horticulture professionals, including garden retail, ornamentals nurseries, field vegetable and salad crops, sport and amenity turf, landscape contracting and design, grounds maintenance, parks & gardens and arboriculture.
Latest News
- Keydell Nurseries submits new plans
- Morrisons garden centre for Wrexham
- Rolawn supplies 24 at Chelsea Flower Show
- Visitors need to catch Diarmuid Gavin's eye to gain access to Chelsea garden
- HW PODCAST: RHS Chelsea Flower Show Plant of the Year 2012 Award
- Plant breeder 'defied the odds' to win Chelsea Plant of the Year
- Chelsea coverage fosters sales hopes
- Historic letters from Korea turn up at Chelsea
- Heroic plant hunters did us proud Roy Lancaster tells Chelsea
- Fermoy's garden centre barathon raises £10k with the help of Horticulture Week pedal power
- BTME bookings up say BIGGA
- Glee to hold exhibtor workshop at Solus
- Squire's Garden Centres celebrate a year of owning Shoots
- Garden centres parade jubilee/Olympic ideas
- University of Leeds wins gold and wows visitors at Chelsea
- Writtle wraps up Chelsea silver for its grow-your-own garden
- Easigrass steps in after exhibitor has last minute 'meltdown'
- Gardenex reveals export deals
Columnists & Comment
Reader Panel - How have you been dealing with this season's poor weather?
18 May 2012We ask a range of industry people at Malvern Spring Garden Show how they have been affected by this year's bad weather.
Seabrook On ... Shifting plants in challenging times
18 May 2012The removal of VAT exemption on products worth up to £18 posted from the Channel Isles to the mainland is hitting employment and the islands' economy. The increase in postal charges will also become a drag on the mail-order plant trade.
All eyes on clawing back sales
18 May 2012What a wretched contrast to the start of the garden retail season in 2011 this season's opening has proved to be. This time last year, industry stalwarts such as Peter Seabrook were hailing the best ever spring for retail sales for 50 years.
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Arboriculture RSS
- RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2012 - THE WINNERS
- Stihl announces CLA lumberjack chainsaw event
- Arb Show set to shine
- Barcham Trees holds third Big Barn event
- Derry woodland scheme wins lottery funding
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Careers and workplace RSS
- Plumpton College cancels open day because of waterlogged parking
- Bicton College to promote vocational qualifications
- University of Buckingham masters to focus on garden history
- National Trust offers new diploma
- RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show launches student award
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Contracts RSS
- Ninth Stakeholder Forum non-native species update in May
- Top groundsmen speak at seminar on turfcare techniques
- Garden Thyme buys blower
- Mower dealership agreed
- New Contracts - Grounds Maintenance
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Edibles RSS
- Heroic plant hunters did us proud Roy Lancaster tells Chelsea
- "Just one more" fruit or veg, urges heart charity
- James Wong seed range launched
- Decision due on Scottish colleges merger
- Plant hunt stories revealed
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Landscape RSS
- Rolawn supplies 24 at Chelsea Flower Show
- Visitors need to catch Diarmuid Gavin's eye to gain access to Chelsea garden
- HW PODCAST: RHS Chelsea Flower Show Plant of the Year 2012 Award
- Historic letters from Korea turn up at Chelsea
- BTME bookings up say BIGGA
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Ornamentals RSS
- HW PODCAST: RHS Chelsea Flower Show Plant of the Year 2012 Award
- Plant breeder 'defied the odds' to win Chelsea Plant of the Year
- Chelsea coverage fosters sales hopes
- Heroic plant hunters did us proud Roy Lancaster tells Chelsea
- Writtle wraps up Chelsea silver for its grow-your-own garden
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Parks and gardens RSS
- Writtle wraps up Chelsea silver for its grow-your-own garden
- RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2012 - THE WINNERS
- Hitchmough warns Chelsea too much native planting is ruining horticulture in public spaces
- Cleve West wins Chelsea Flower Show best show garden
- Olympic flame flies high at Eden Project
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Pests and diseases RSS
- HDC seminar video goes online
- Fungicide use approved on strawberries
- EC consults on alien species
- Pesticide treatment clarified for fuchsia gall mite control
- Pesticide guide updated
Additional Information
Latest jobs Jobs web feed
- Business Planner Henderson Brown Recruitment £22000 - £25000 per annum + Benefits, Peterborough
- Trading Assistant Henderson Brown Recruitment £20000 - £25000 per annum + Benefits, Cambridgeshire
- Team Leaders - Hard and Soft Landscape Anders Plus 21.5k - 23k doe, Essex
- Assistant Strawberry Grower Henderson Brown Recruitment £20000 - £25000 per annum, West Midlands
- Garden Manager Chiswick House and Gardens Trust £27,000 -£30,000 per annum negotiable on experience, West London
Latest Tenders
Contract for the Supply of Horticultural Machinery & Equipment
Sunderland City Council
CONTRACTS FOR THE SUPPLY OF PARKS
MAINTENANCE AND TREES MAINTENANCE
Wandsworth Borough Council
In This Issue
NEWS: Garden centre sales start to pick up after relentless poor weather
GROWER: Packaging update
INTERVIEW: Robin Wallis on the Hortus Loci launch
PEST & DISEASE FACTSHEET: Moles
KIT TESTS: Handheld tools
