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09 Feb 2012

Phytophthora austrocedrae has hit rare native juniper bushes at the Moor House - Upper Teesdale National Nature Reserve in the North Pennines.

Big Tree Plant gets started

20 Jan 2012

Gateshead Council is to plant 650 trees in Cross Lane Meadows nature reserve, the first of 16 sites in Defra's Big Tree Plant initiative.

Fuchsia gall mite and leek moths enter RHS top 10 pests list

12 Jan 2012 | by Matthew Appleby

Slugs and snails have taken the top RHS pest enquiry slot for 2011 after having lost first place to viburnum beetle in 2010.

Forestry Commission halts larch felling

08 Nov 2011 | by Matthew Appleby

The Forestry Commission has introduced a temporary moratorium on issuing new permissions to fell larch trees during the winter in the areas of Britain at greatest risk of having ramorum disease.

Grounds maintenance contracy with Yorkshire Housing

23 Sep 2011

Yorkshire Housing wants grounds maintenance services worth £1.7m over four years.

Horse chestnut tree sales fall by 98 per cent because of pests and diseases

01 Sep 2011 | by Matthew Appleby

With scientists unlikely to find a predator for horse chestnut leaf miner, the tree's commercial prospects appear bleak.

Cash sought to tackle oak threat

01 Sep 2011 | by Hannah Jordan

Environmental charity Woodland Heritage issues call for funding to overcome acute oak decline.

Gloomy, rainy skies bring blight infection risk

01 Sep 2011

A pall of gloomy skies across large parts of the UK has left potato growers battling against blight infections and struggling to cope with big crop canopies in the run-up to harvest.

Event supplies spray advice

26 Aug 2011

The Horticultural Development Company held a seminar, Hitting the Target - Optimising Pesticide Efficacy, in Wellesbourne on 24 August.

Norfolk carrot growers on fungus alert after high Sclerotinia finding

26 Aug 2011

Carrot growers in Norfolk are being warned by the ADAS/BASF Sclerotinia monitoring team that germination of the fungus has been unusually high in their region.