From today (17 December), growers are being given the chance to get rid of any unwanted, out-of-date or revoked pesticides and biocides as part of Project SOE (security in the operational environment).
Forestry Commission Scotland is currently felling 1.25ha of Japanese larch trees following an outbreak of ramorum disease in a plantation on the Craignish Peninsula in Argyll.
East Malling Trust (EMT), the Horticultural Development Company and the HTA have joined together to launch five five-year fellowships in horticultural R&D worth up to £50,000 each per annum.
The summary of responses and initial Government response to the consultation on implementing new European pesticides legislation has been published.
Invasive non-native species (INNS) cost the British economy £1.7 billion every year, according to a new report, The Economic Cost of Invasive Non-Native Species.
Bemisa Tabac, commonly known as Tobacco Whitefly, has been identified on 21 poinsettia plants in Lincolnshire.
Pesticide chiefs have launched a survey to help them understand more about the types of pesticides used across the UK.
Ramorum disease has been found in Japanese Larch trees in Scotland for the first time ever, sparking a mass felling operation by Forestry Commission Scotland.
A Food & Environment Research Authority scientist has questioned RHS advice urging gardeners to throw out fuchsia plants infected with fuchsia gall mite, calling it "draconian".
House Plants Direct is launching its 2011 range, including new Mother's Day plants and a new category of air plants in its range of Sand Art plants.
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