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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
- UK Plant Science Federation event a showcase for plant science
- Chemicals Regulation Directorate workshop to cover testing plant protection products
- Doubt cast on electronic weed control
- Apples exported to Thailand
- Mushroom meeting date set
- BIFGA technical day highlights recruitment issues
- Small-scale growers urged to diversify
- Police call on growers to report thefts to help improve crime prevention
- Study into bee colony collapse finds links to insecticide
- Stone fruit sector agrees need for data-gathering and forecasting to boost sales
- Parties clash in Commons over grocery ombudsman
- Enquiry will decide Madestein UK glasshouse salad scheme fate
- Supply chain and SAWS top NFU's 2012 agenda
- Terra Firma tipped for GCG buy
- Britain in Bloom entries defy council cutback prediction
- Christmas theme boosts National Trust visits
- Gardening found to help children grow
- Grower of the Year winners to vie for international prize
Columnists & Comment
Seabrook On ... RHS must invest in sustainable growth
03 February 2012Money is funny stuff, quite difficult to earn, even more difficult to hang on to and very easy to fritter away.
Reader Panel - How important are export markets for your business?
03 February 2012HW asked UK companies exhibiting at this year's IPM Essen trade show how significant foreign markets are for their business.
Ornamentals' research lifeline
03 February 2012A pledge by environment secretary Caroline Spelman to the delegation from the All-Party Parliamentary Gardening & Horticulture Group to look again at the seemingly discarded issue within Defra of applied research for the ornamentals sector is welcome...
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Arboriculture RSS
- The Institute of Chartered Foresters new members
- Fountains Group purchase saves jobs
- Woodland awards deadline nears
- Tree care responsibilities to be aired at Suffolk seminar
- Business site expansion helps supplier Green-tech add turnover and staff in 2011
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Careers and workplace RSS
- English Gardening School course aims to improve flower show designs
- Solar energy project at Oatridge College aims to slash energy demand
- Trust students carry on historic horticultural traditions
- RHS president receives honorary design doctorate
- Fellowships offered in Rome
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Contracts RSS
- Cemetery job offered
- Grounds work needed
- Office plants thrive despite cuts
- New Contracts - Woodland work offered
- New Contracts - Product supplier sought
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Edibles RSS
- UK Plant Science Federation event a showcase for plant science
- Chemicals Regulation Directorate workshop to cover testing plant protection products
- Doubt cast on electronic weed control
- Apples exported to Thailand
- Mushroom meeting date set
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Landscape RSS
- Christmas theme boosts National Trust visits
- Gardening found to help children grow
- German peat supplier sounds warning of industry breakdown from UK phase-out
- Groundwork hails year's successes
- Defra online network launched to pool project findings and ecosystem understanding
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Ornamentals RSS
- UK Plant Science Federation event a showcase for plant science
- Police call on growers to report thefts to help improve crime prevention
- Study into bee colony collapse finds links to insecticide
- Britain in Bloom entries defy council cutback prediction
- Grower of the Year winners to vie for international prize
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Parks and gardens RSS
- Britain in Bloom entries defy council cutback prediction
- Christmas theme boosts National Trust visits
- Gardening found to help children grow
- German peat supplier sounds warning of industry breakdown from UK phase-out
- Defra online network launched to pool project findings and ecosystem understanding
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Pests and diseases RSS
- Big Tree Plant gets started
- Fuchsia gall mite and leek moths enter RHS top 10 pests list
- Forestry Commission halts larch felling
- Grounds maintenance contracy with Yorkshire Housing
- Gloomy, rainy skies bring blight infection risk
Additional Information
Latest jobs Jobs web feed
- Gardener (fixed-term) Prestigious private Estate near Guildford £18,000 pro rata, Near Guildford & Woking, Surrey
- FE Lecturer in Horticulture Writtle College Qualified Lecturer: £27,428 p.a. pro rata, Unqualified Lecturer: £23,661 p.a. pro rata, Writtle, Chelmsford, Essex
- Garden Maintenance Supervisor Hewitt Landscapes Ltd Salary dependent on whether the role is full- or part-time., Various locations in North-West, West and South-West London
- Horticultural Advisor Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Circa £22,000 per annum, Woking, Surrey
- Hard Landscape Operatives & Stone Layers Siddeleys £22 - £28k DOE, Central London locations
In This Issue
NEWS: Senior parks staff exodus sparks alarm across capital
RETAIL: Garden centres look to supermarkets
MARKET REPORT: Ride-on mowers
INTERVIEW: Cruickshank Botanic Garden curator Mark Paterson
EDIBLES: Brassica conference news round-up
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
