Agricultural Wages Board Northern Ireland has settled at a 2.4 per cent pay increase.
Oatridge College in West Lothian is to slash its energy demands from the National Grid by 60 per cent and prevent 20 tonnes of carbon from being pumped into the atmosphere every year by commissioning one of Scotland's largest solar power projects.
The National Trust is helping to ensure a good future for horticultural history by training the latest class of newly-qualified gardening experts.
RHS president Elizabeth Banks has received an honorary design doctorate from the University of Greenwich.
Scottish Agricultural College is leading a two-year £1.7m rural training programme for the farming, food and forestry sectors in Cumbria. Each project, funded by Defra, was drawn up in response to needs analysis work out in rural Cumbria in 2009.
Training courses and professional advice offered as part of enhanced membership services.
Professional Gardeners Guild chairman Tony Arnold, head gardener at the University of Cambridge's Newnham College, has warned gardeners about the threat of skin cancer this spring.
John O'Conner Grounds Maintenance has taken on five work experience interns as part of the Government's extended work experience scheme.
Garden design students from Craven College in North Yorkshire scooped a premier award at this year's Harrogate Spring Flower Show.
The Garden Design School is offering a series of taster days for its one-year diploma starting in September.
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