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Why garden centres should reopen during the coronavirus outbreak

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HW SURVEY: coronavirus and the horticulture and garden industries

Horticulture Week would like to gauge how the coronavirus pandemic may be impacting the various horticulture businesses over the short and long term.

Coronavirus and Horticulture News

Horticulture industry could lose £100 million during first warm weekend of the spring as coronavirus restrictions continue

Plant passport regulations clarified in coronavirus crisis for online sale

Garden centre boss defies authorities

Coronavirus loans for businesses overhauled by Government

Mail order gardening sees ten-fold increase amid coronavirus crisis

BHETA intervenes as big retailers threaten suppliers with extended trading times

Re-open garden centres during coronavirus outbreak petitions take off

Alan Titchmarsh calls for garden centres to re-open during coronavirus crisis

Olympic park 'letter to Londoners' warns not to sunbathe during coronavirus crisis

Hopes rise that garden centre plant areas could re-open under coronavirus lockdown

Lottery puts together £50m coronavirus emergency fund - including up to £50,000 cash for parks

Horticulturists "incandescent with rage" at Monty Don's lack of sympathy for stricken growers UPDATED

Financial support necessary for ornamental horticulture producers during coronavirus pandemic

Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership calls for students to cover fresh produce worker shortages

HTA launches plant scrappage scheme campaign saying one-third of growers could close for good because of coronavirus crisis

Tree growers destroying stock as planting demand fails to materialise

Johnsons of Whixley sends out template letter calling for Government to support ornamental horticulture in the coronavirus crisis

Farm labour suppliers' pool widened as top fruit sector plans recruitment portal

Some young plant suppliers to charge for cancelled orders

Growers see cancelled orders and hold out hope for scrappage scheme to save the industry

RHS tells exhibitors Hampton Court still on, giving hope that post-coronavirus public gardening will start again by July

Rainbow of hope at plant growers offer light at the end of the tunnel

Bransford Webbs and St Peters Garden Centre appear on BBC coronavirus crisis report

IPPS Edinburgh and Dutch Orchid Days latest horticulture events to be cancelled

RHS pushes back Bridgewater opening and Wisley developments until next spring

Government’s message to construction sector: stick to Site Operating Procedures and carry on

Councils scrap garden waste collection services amid coronavirus concerns

Ball Colegrave informs customers about cancelling and rebooking/amending procedure

Cherry Lane Garden Centres close after coronavirus lockdown

Homebase seeks to put plants online after shutting due to coronavirus crisis

Garden centre forced by Environmental Health to close as non-essential retail

"Disappointing" sales of ornamental plants and flowers in supermarkets during coronavirus crisis

Giant UK grower hopes coronavirus-disrupted supermarket supply chain settles soon

West Sussex Growers Association makes the case for maintaining horticultural jobs including care of plants during coronavirus pandemic

Kernock Park Plants video warning of coronavirus impact gets 1,500 views

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Coronavirus and Horticulture

HORTICULTURE EVENTS WATCH Track cancellations and postponements of horticulture industry events due to coronavirus.

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Latest Analysis

How garden centres are dealing with being shut during the coronavirus pandemic

What are the best new plants launched this spring?

What's new in fruit crop protection this season?

Amenity weed control: what benefits can professionals secure with new spraying kit?

Landscape Project Leads Service

Project lead: conversion of former horticultural nursery and surrounding landscape in West Midlands

Project lead: landscaping for warehouse development in South East

Project lead: soft landscaping for major housing development in Glasgow

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Comment

Opinion...A solid base from which to rebuild after the coronavirus crisis is over

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Careers in Horticulture - jobs market

Horticulture Salary Survey: what do the past year’s job adverts tell us? Horticulture has typically been seen as a low-paid job, but evidence from analysis of Horticulture Week job advertisements from across the industry portrays a different picture, Matthew Appleby reports.

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HW's Tenders Tracker Service

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Tender - Grounds and Landscape Maintenance Services

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EAMU EXPIRY ALERT

EAMU Expiry Alert: June 2020 EAMU authorisations that are due to expire by the end of June 2020.

Nursery task checklist

2 April - Feeding and needlecast

Maintenance checklist

APRIL TURFCARE TASKS

GOING FOR GROWTH: THE UK ORNAMENTALS MARKET CONFERENCE

HW conference will help UK ornamentals growers to expand their business

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HW Exclusive Data Report

Weather challenges and labour constraints have hampered fruit growers attempts to grow - HW 's UK Fruit Grower Report finds

Fruit growers’ efforts to take advantage of opportunities to increase production are being frustrated, writes Gavin McEwan.

TOP 100 ORNAMENTALS NURSERIES 2020

See our exclusive report and ranking of ornamentals nurseries performance by annual turnover.
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TOP 70 LANDSCAPE AND MAINTENANCE FIRMS 2020

See our exclusive report and ranking of landscape and maintenance contractors by annual turnover.
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Latest Jobs

Team Leader / Foreman Landscape Maintenance

Starting £25,000, dependent upon knowledge and experience, Tiverton, Devon

Environmental Team Leader

£28,319 - £33,317 per annum, Widnes, Cheshire

Soft Landscape Technician

Starting salary KR7 grade £22,581, Ashford, Kent

Skilled Gardener

£11.22 per hour, St James Park and Green Park London

Estate Gardener Private Estate

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