Birmingham City Council has said this could be the last year it will be able to exhibit at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, ending an era of councils showing at the event.
Garden centres demand too much margin to be able to sell innovative products, according to the designer of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show product of the year winner Harrod Horticultural's Slot&Lock Framework Building System.
Environment secretary endorses show moves to raise awareness of pest-and-disease control among gardening public.
Landscapers blame recession and eurozone troubles as commercial projects suffer but domestic work continues to grow.
Growers exhibiting at Chelsea said they have not been deterred from expansion next year by the poor business in April and May.
Norfolk grower British Wild Flower Plants has supplied plants to three show gardens at this week's RHS Chelsea Flower Show - the Daily Telegraph Garden, The Brontes' Yorkshire Garden and DMZ Forbidden Garden.
Phytophthora infection rates drop but FERA warns that wet weather may cause them to rise again.
Sport and entertainment venue development plans unveiled for Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Blackmoor Nurseries has had 50 "irreplaceable" new fruit trees stolen from its nursery near Liss in Hampshire.
Landscape contractors are being squeezed out by general builders who are being asked by clients to tack on greenery to their construction projects, a sector leader has warned.
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