NEWS

RHS hits 100,000 plants

'Dud' turf degrees comment attacked by grounds management bodies

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Bank holiday sees some "excellent" garden centre sales

Mumsnet expresses mixed views on Monty Don

Artificial flowers take off in garden centres

Retail nursery saved

Sargent's Paving Site Online consolidates

ICL ‘Fertilisers for the Future’ at HTA National Plant Show

Ten Plantipp varieties shortlisted for Chelsea Flower Show 2026

Gardeners Delight Nursery delighted with Dicentra Chelsea Flower Show shortlisting

GrowTropicals named UK's official supplier of DocBlock Anthuriums as Anthurium 'Michelle' shortlisted for RHS Chelsea Plant of the Year

Two shortlisted from Kernock Park Plants for Chelsea new plant of the year

Frank P Matthews celebrates award-winning Japanese Lantern Chelsea new plant shortlisting

Euphorbia Walberton’s 'Little Treasure' makes RHS Chelsea Plant of the Year 2026 shortlist

RHS Chelsea Flower Show new plant awards shortlist revealed

Burgon & Ball celebrates 29 years at RHS Chelsea

Winners and losers this horticulture week

Movers so far in 2026

Most read in April: top buyers, Nigel Dunnett, Oppermans, Blue Diamond

Macpac and Valpak develop carbon calculator for plant packaging

THIS WEEK'S PODCAST

News In Focus - season kicks off, global shocks, plastic pot recycling and the nasties lurking in artificial turf

Click below for some highlights of our recent video content

ANALYSIS

Growers’ Guide to Plant Health: Downy mildew

Whatever happened to… Cheals

New Plants Radar: Spring shrubs

Gardener’s Diary: Creating breathtaking meadows

Books: HortWeek reviews in 2026 to date

Obituaries 2026

Business changes in 2026 so far

Most watched videos this year so far

Five questions with Imogen Perreau, the designer behind Chelsea Flower Show’s Monument Feature 2026

Topsellers in garden centres January-April 2026 analysis reveals peat-free sales trends

Cactus Focus: Sector leader interview - John Arnold

Cactus Focus: Sector leader interview - Frank Sengpiel

Starting strong against brassica pest pressure

EGO Spotlight: Cleaning kit

EGO Spotlight: Next-generation robotic mowers VIDEO

HORTWEEK PODCAST

What's it really like running a historic garden in 2026? With Rosie Fyles of Chiswick House and Gardens Trust

Mental health and horticulture with Creepers Nursery's Michael Buck and Helen Waddington of Perennial

Helen Waddington, Rachael Forsyth and Michael Buck

Adrian Bloom on how we can get people back into gardening

HortWeek Podcast: ICL’s Steve Chapman on optimising vine weevil control

Parks & Gardens Week Horticulture Question Time special with Jane Moore and Joe Whitehead

Jane Moore, Rachael Forsyth and Joe Whitehead

HortWeek Podcast: GIMA’s Vicky Nuttall on her 12 years in the role and the future of garden retail supply

The challenges and politics of water management for horticulture - with John Adlam

HortWeek Podcast: Professional Gardeners Guild chair Joe Whitehead on how the PGG is looking towards its 50th anniversary

The wonderful world of sustainable, small scale and peat-free flower farming - with Georgie Newbery

HortWeek Podcast: ADHD, landscaping and horticulture, with Paul Greenyer, Gareth Wilson and Craig Nester

Paul Greenyer, Gareth Wilson, Craig Nester, Rachael Forsyth

Organised crime and garden centres, influencers, marketing, garden visitors and peat-free

Should we ban peat? Peat panel at BOA Conference 2026

The multiple benefits of horticulture apprenticeships for businesses, new entrants and existing employees

Inside today’s plant buyer: Insights from HortWeek IPM Essen panel with Michael Perry VIDEO + AUDIO

Panel: Perry, Harnett, Marquenie and Green

HortWeek Podcast: Turf Wars: the ups and downs of running a sports turf business, with CutCrew's Jack Churchman

Are UK garden centres underperforming? Dries Jansen from Garden Center Advice on data that could boost your yield per sqm

HortWeek makes its predictions for horticulture in 2026

Matthew Appleby, Rachael Forsyth and Sally Drury

Can rock dust save UK soils and rock horticultural production? with Veolia's Jennifer Brodie

HortWeek on horticulture in 2025 - Review of the Year

Matt Appleby, Rachael Forsyth and Sally Drury

Why The Gardens Trust is taking on the Government

INDUSTRY RANKINGS

Expanded Top 250 Garden Centres 2025 launches

Who tops the list of biggest horticulture suppliers 2025?

Latest top 100 Ornamentals Nurseries ranking reflects consolidation and flat returns in the last year

Acquisitions and consolidation mean change at the top in this year's Top 70 Landscape & Maintenance Contractors report

Top 70 Landscape and Maintenance Contractors

Steady year for the top 20 Glasshouse Salad Growers 2024

Top 5 horticulture wholesalers

Top 10 Turf Growers 2024

Top 25 Fruit Producers ranking sees growers facing increased production costs

Top 25 UK Arboriculture Businesses 2023 shows firms thriving during a tricky period

Top 10 landscape stone paving companies

PLANT LIBRARY

Plant Focus: Liquidambar

Building plant resilience: why biological solutions are becoming essential

From mix to market: practical decisions that grow profits

The evolution of peat-free growing media at Durstons

Are you getting the best return from CRFs?

Four Oaks 2026: Proven value for the horticulture trade

How real-time data drives better growing decisions

7 reasons Four Oaks Trade Show remains a must-visit event

ICL Hort Science masterclasses: Sustainable plant production for the future

ICL masterclasses: Mapping the path to sustainable growing

Top Belgian growers return to Four Oaks

Landscape image of a nursery, Bedrijfsbeelden DeNolf

TENDERS TRACKER:
The latest
public sector
tenders

Covering landscape, arboriculture,
grounds care, turf care,
production and kit supplies.

ORNAMENTALS

Exiting the horticulture industry and minimising inheritance tax

NGS publishes Little Yellow Book of Gardens and Health

Tree production falls

Dutch floriculture exports to GB rise

Landscape plants nurseries update on season UPDATED

Treasure Gardening to sponsor peat-free garden at RHS show

Most read this horticulture week: Nigel Dunnett, Mel Asker, Laskett, garden centre sales

Jarman plans sell off auction

Companies House results: Perrywood, Allensmore, JA Jones, Fallen Fruits

Wharton's new reservoir helps rose rootstocks

SPS agreement on its way landmark UK-EU meeting hears VIDEO

RHS Chelsea new plants winner reveal reverts to Monday

British grower hub for New Covent Garden Market

Own brand reaches 50% of market share

New nursery planned with almost £20k raised

Ashwood Nurseries rare plant fair a success

GARDEN RETAIL

Crime Bill welcomed by industry bodies

Webbs Garden Centres partners with Cheltenham Jazz Festival to create VIP garden

Garden centre opens 'men's shed'

Mayor of Sherborne, Jill Warburton, and Antony Chambers, chairman of The Green Shed Sherborne

May bank holiday hopes high in garden centres

Greenfingers celebrates record year

Former garden centre site up for auction at £1.5m guide price

Vitax plant National Forest trees

Book review: Rosie Sanders’ Apples

Busy weekend at garden centres UPDATED

Garden centres set for best weekend of the year

Garden centre event with TV gardener David Domoney raises money to fund cancer research

Co-op selling 100% GB strawberries UPDATED

Top 25 garden centre departments: EPOS data April 2026

Top 50 named products: EPOS data January-May 2026

Book review: The Secret World of Twilight

Book review: A New Cottage Garden

FRESH PRODUCE

Fruit growers count cost of Iran war

Farm fatalities concern increasing

Veg for breakfast promotion launched

Plans for £150m Essex greenhouse complex granted approval by local council

EAMU roundup: April 2026

Horticulture Sector Growth Plan 'progressing' says Defra

EAMU expiry alert: September 2026

EAMU expiry alert: August 2026

EAMU expiry alert: July 2026

MPs scrutinise grocery adjudicators and trade bodies as Iran conflict drives up food costs

Transition period after UK-EU SPS agreement rejected in Government’s response to EFRA report

Peat-free fresh produce plans launched

Plant protection products company to be bought

Supermarket shelves could be empty if Iran war continues

Biostimulant delivers 35% yield increase and earlier harvest in UK raspberry field trial

HortWeek Survey: how is the conflict in the Middle East affecting your horticulture business?

LANDSCAPE

Tenders Tracker: LIVE TABLE

Blakedown Landscapes completes landmark garden honouring Queen Elizabeth II

AI garden design to launch at RHS Chelsea Flower Show

IOSH: Women's PPE fit improving

Professor Nigel Dunnett passes away

BALI Joins industry green skills gap collaboration at New Scientist Live 2026

Landscape contractor plants 7,500 trees

WATCH: Royal Parks new Queen Elizabeth garden revealed

Toughest winter means risk analysis required for working on heavy soils, says Gregory

Artificial grass should not be ruled out, says Gregory

Jo Thompson partners with Crocus

RHS Chelsea Flower Show Monument design revealed

Low Pay Commission recommends minimum wage increase of up to 5% + horticulture industry reaction

STIHL launches ‘Try Before You Buy’ initiative for AP System tools

Book review: Japanese Ikebana

Maylim wins pier gardens contract

PARKS & GARDENS

Dogs and deer in parks causing stampedes, says Royal Parks

Kew Wakehurst celebrates five years of Nature Unlocked

Wind in the Trees - Wellbeing Walk, Visual Air RBG Kew

Laskett for sale at £1.5m

Rare Kew corpse flower blooms

The Laskett hits the market: "Do not be afraid to change your garden"

Matt Biggs awarded unique 64th RHS VMH

MAY PARKS AND GARDENS MAINTENANCE TASKS

Most read this horticulture week: arrest, season so far, QVC, otter invasion

Jason Williams fronts National Trust sky garden challenge

Queen's 100th £46m memorial planned for St James's Park

Bankside Open Spaces Trust partnering with Cloud Gardener to raise £10,000 for Future Gardeners Programme

Bridgewater £500m mega spa progresses

CPRE write to PM about parks commercialisation

Glasshouse project wins £1.1m grant

pringburn Winter Gardens from the front – credit, Leslie Barrie / Geography UK, CC 2.0.

TV: Monty Don and Adam Frost back new Queen's Royal Parks garden

Parks flower bed decline criticised by former council gardener

Cleckheaton Memorial park in 2009 (right) and this winter (left)

ARBORICULTURE

Inquest to examine death of young girl crushed to death by a tree branch

Cheviot Trees buys site

National Forest plants 10 millionth tree

European Nurserystock Association calls for greater policy recognition for plants and trees

Guide to: Horticulture business costs and employment challenges

Half a million trees planted as 26 UK places earn global recognition

Barrell on: Urban tree canopy cover assessment: a new climate adaptation tool for planning

Company fined £87k after employee loses foot in workplace accident

Trump administration orders dismantling of the US Forest Service

What plants should UK growers be growing, retailers selling and landscapers planting into the future?

Tilhill trials PlantMax automated tree planting

Record illegal felling fine ordered by court

10 millionth tree planted at community forests

Sycamore Gap sapling being planted in Newcastle's Town Moor

Sweet chestnut blight outbreak leads to movement restrictions

Defra: 'We cannot require tree establishment care'

RHS awards: Andrew Fisher Tomlin to be honoured

TURF

Golf must move from reactive pest control to regenerative biological turf management

MAY TURFCARE TASKS

District Council fined £50,000 after worker seriously injured in lawnmower incident

APRIL TURFCARE TASKS

Turf growers advised to increase prices as war continues

GMA shines spotlight on skilled grounds staff with new GroundsWeek video

International Women’s Day: How is horticulture getting involved?

BioScapes becomes lead brand of Rolawn turf business

International Women’s Day: how close is horticulture to gender parity?

RHS Wisley Women in Horticulture event: lessons from leading women

100 leading women in UK horticulture 2026

MARCH TURFCARE TASKS

Gardener (Full Time)

Sopwell House Hotel, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Landscape Contracts Manager

Fresh Horticultural Careers, South West London
Hard landscapers with CSCS card - immediate start - FHC4

Fresh Horticultural Careers, Central and North London
Head Gardener

Levens Heritage, Levens Hall and Gardens, Cumbria
Head Gardener (resident/house provided)

Arundel Castle, Arundel Castle
Garden Maintenance Horticultural Foreman

Cameron Landscapes & Gardens, Central London.
Estates Business Partner (Grounds)

CGP Books, Lake District, UK
Senior Gardener - Wrest Park

Webrecruit- English Heritage, Wrest Park, Bedfordshire
Grounds Operative (Horticulture)

University of West England, Frenchay Campus, Bristol
Groundsperson

Mawley Hall LLP, Private Estate Near Marlborough, Wiltshire