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| Horticulture Week's news bulletin delivers the top stories affecting garden retailing, ornamentals production, edibles production, landscaping, parks & gardens, turf and arboriculture each week. |
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| Industry figures fear skills deficit from loss of top layer of parks management in the capital could be repeated across UK. |
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| Harrogate exhibition reports a rise in visitors and business enquiries as greenkeepers flock in. |
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| All-Party Parliamentary Gardening & Horticulture Group wins pledge to pursue ornamentals funds. |
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| Talks with private equity group said to be advanced with a deal expected for the 130-centre chain. |
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| Westland Horticulture is to sponsor Diarmuid Gavin to build a Chelsea Flower Show garden based on Westland's Light and Easy compost product. |
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| Booklet to customers warns over quality and availability issues from the Government's switch to peat-free alternatives. |
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| Orders look likely to fare well in comparison with last year's bumper bank holiday season sales. |
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| Horticultural Development Company seminar covers how to optimise pest-and-disease control. |
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| Woodland owners and managers (private and public), community groups and farmers in Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Somerset and Avon, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall have until the beginning of March to take part in the RFS Woodland Awards. |
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| Stronger supply chain relationships, improved producer organisation scheme management, renewing the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme (SAWS), terminating the Agricultural Wages Board (AWB) and consideration for polytunnels in the planning system f... |
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| Plummeting temperatures has put a halt to turf growth, after a record-breaking mild winter that kept turf growing far longer than normal. |
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| In Depth |
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| Writing a formal business plan helps define the what, why and how of achievement, says Neville Stein. |
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| Supermarkets and garden centres are finding mutual benefits in combining operations to maximise customer footfall and fund growth, Hannah Jordan reports. |
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| Mark Paterson's horticultural career has included spells in Canada, Australia and London's Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, as well as Threave Gardens in Castle Douglas and the Eden Project in Cornwall, where he was head of the tertiary education programm... |
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| Getting the maximum benefit from your mower is key when budgets are tight, Sally Drury maintains. |
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| Latest Jobs |
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Trainee Gardener, London
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Genuine Horticulturalist, Oxfordshire
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Head Gardener, Ascot Racecourse, Ascot, Berkshire
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Experienced Gardener, London
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Head Gardener, Glamis Castle, Scotland
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Section Leader - Land and Environmental Management, Cannington, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA5 2LS
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Gardener, Welwyn, Herts
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Director of Horticulture, Maidenhead, Berkshire
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Plant Manager, Dorset
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Management Trainee, Hampshire
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