Hardy Plant Focus: Prunus Part 2 - flowering cherries for street tree planting

Anyone in the trade who is involved with trees for street planting, whether field or container growers, wholesalers and traders or their customers, will be aware of the relatively short list of suitable candidates among flowering cherry cultivars.

Hardy Plant Focus: Prunus part 1 - flowering cherries for the garden

Flowering cherries are a quintessential harbinger of spring in the UK — probably more so than crab apples, hawthorns, rowans and whitebeams combined — and they likely constitute the most often-planted and widely recognised garden trees.

Hardy Plant Focus: Magnolia — large-flowered hybrids for the garden

This genus contains unarguably some of the most beautiful shrubs and trees, in terms of both flowers and fragrance, that we are able to grow in our temperate UK climate.

Adjuvants: crops will benefit if the right adjuvants are added to the spray tank

How can ornamentals growers control sooty moulds?

Scale insects: the most vulnerable stage of the life cycle needs to be targeted