10 takeaways from IPM Essen 2026

IPM Essen 2026 new plants: GALLERY

Brits triumph at IPM: Hillier wins international nursery prize and Henil Vashi wins young grower award

New Plants Radar: First look at the stars of IPM Essen 2026

Greenwood launches climate-resilient plant range at IPM Essen

IPM Essen top five must-sees: HortWeek event, awards, preview, new plants, conifers for the future

New agricology technical guide supports growers with field vegetable rotations and soil health

New study shows that extensive tree planting would be necessary to achieve net-zero carbon emissions in Scotland’s livestock sector by 2050

HortWeek peat seminar to feature at British Ornamentals Association conference on 4 February

Provender Nurseries to host plants@work 25th anniversary event

Colegrave Seabrook Foundation sees 20% increase in the number of applications

Church calls for no imported flowers and to ban floral foam

EXCLUSIVE: RHS Chelsea Flower Show nursery line-up revealed

Wildlife World IP and assets bought by STV

Knife suppliers urged to respond to Government proposals on mandatory licensing

Movers and people: GIMA, YPHA, Reform, British Berry Growers

Agrichemicals firm hit with £400,000 fine after dangerous steam release

Ending EU bans on high-risk plant imports is 'paused'

Winners and losers this horticulture week: GCA and IPM awards, peat problems, SPS

Most read this horticulture week: IPM reports, GCA winners, peat issues

Retail nursery submits housing plans

Pick-&-Joy Aubergine wins Show Your Colours award at IPM 2026

Westland launch premium mulch

HortWeek official media partner of BALI’s National Landscape Conference

First UK robotic potting line launched at Barcham Trees

Flower show cancelled again

Whatever happened to… the Glasshouse Crops Research Institute

Sargent’s Solutions: Artificial intelligence and domestic landscape contractors

Growers’ Guide to Plant Health: Phytophthora root rots

Gardener’s Diary: The importance of human contact over the garden fence

Head Gardener: Bare-root plants tick all the boxes for winter planting + Jane Moore VIDEO

Which plants will do well in 2026?

Top 25 garden centre departments: EPOS data January 2026

Top 25 garden centre plants: EPOS data January 2026

How using peat got back on the agenda

Top 100 garden centre products: EPOS data January 2026

Turf management: 20 leading exhibitors’ products and kit showcased at BTME with a focus on technology

RBGE Regius Keeper Simon Milne highlights importance of plants

How garden centres have changed 1990-2026: Expert analysis

Richard Wilford speaks on plants for the future

Product Special: Growing media and fertilisers for growers and garden centres

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

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

HortWeek on horticulture in 2025 - Review of the Year

Why The Gardens Trust is taking on the Government

Why tree guru Tony Kirkham wants to 'get rid of the term 'tree planting''

How grower-gardener collaboration is driving innovation in the tree sector - with Kevin Martin of Kew and Adam Dunnett of Hillier

ICL's Chloe Whiteside on peat-free, fertiliser and biocontrol use for growers this winter

'Failing clients deserve failing trees' - arb consultant Jeremy Barrell on the realities of tree procurement, growing, planting and establishment

'Outrageous' damage to plant imports, peat ban latest and the garden centre of the future

Andrew Fisher Tomlin, author of The Modern Professional Planting Designer

What are the gaps in the market garden centres should be exploiting? - with Rosie Bone

Val Bourne - a champion for organic gardening

Dutch growers on BCPs, SPS + how 'experiences' could transform garden centres and shows

Ground Control on the maturing BNG market

News In Focus - peat supply and ban, GLEE highlights and garden retail anxiety

HortWeek Podcast: Groundsfest - 'a place where companies strive to do better and it's driving the industry forward'

News In Focus - which products and plants won at Four Oaks, and why?

News In Focus - peat, Power 100 and prices

Neville Stein on his 'life-changing' work and writing in horticulture

Tenders Tracker: LIVE TABLE

British Garden Centres acquires 75th garden centre

10 takeaways from IPM Essen 2026

FEBRUARY PARKS AND GARDENS MAINTENANCE TASKS

FEBRUARY TURFCARE TASKS

Retail nursery submits housing plans

Ruxley Manor wins GCA garden centre of the year

EXCLUSIVE: RHS Chelsea Flower Show nursery line-up revealed

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

Garden centre seeks £150,000 crowdfunding after losses

£800m downside to UK-EU SPS agreement, new report suggests

Flower show cancelled again

Westland technical head joins HortWeek growing media panel

Ending EU bans on high-risk plant imports is 'paused'

Movers and people: GIMA, YPHA, Reform, British Berry Growers

New collaboration aims to bridge £38 billion visibility gap at New Scientist Live 2026

Agrichemicals firm hit with £400,000 fine after dangerous steam release

IPM Essen 2026 new plants: GALLERY

Wildlife World IP and assets bought by STV

Winners and losers this horticulture week: GCA and IPM awards, peat problems, SPS

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

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 Focus: Agapanthus

Plant Focus: Jasminum

Christmas trees

Water lilies

Anemone

Phlox

Fruit

Fragrant foliage

Vegetable plants

Pyracantha

Carnivorous plants

Nerine

Fragrant white Clematis

Cotinus

Trees that will tolerate wet sites and waterlogging

Bergenia

Movers and people this horticulture week: Forestry Commission, LUC, BGC

Boningale Group strengthens leadership team with senior internal promotions

Modiform gains new investor and CEO

New role for horticulture industry veteran Ian Riggs

Richard Wilford appointed course leader at London College of Garden Design after leaving Kew

Klondyke's Yardley to retire with Abbott as replacement

Horticulture movers and people : Royal Parks, Klondyke. LCGD, Autopot UPDATED

Movers and people: YGC, Fischer, LUC, Green-tech UPDATED

Farplants Sales appoints new head of commercial

LBS appoints Andy Judd as new area sales manager

Merrick joins Allensmore Nurseries

Movers and people: Plant Heritage, Bioline, Fallen Fruits, LBS, BHETA, NFU

HortWeek movers of 2025

Garry Grueber to retire

Movers and people: APAC, BGP, Pleydell, Perennial UPDATED

Movers and people: LDA, Barcham Trees, FLS, Provender, Kew, RHS

Barcham Trees MD retires

Hort movers and people: Syngenta, Arb Association, IPM, RHS UPDATED

Hort movers and people: Origin, PGCA, GCA, Squire's UPDATED

Hort movers and people this week: Westland, Dobbies, WSGA, BGC

Garden Press Event announces speaker programme

Westland technical head joins HortWeek growing media panel

£800m downside to UK-EU SPS agreement, new report suggests

BBC Gardeners' World reveals event details for 2026

Peat's future analysed at IPM Essen with Germany beginning peat-free talks

Peat-frees need to be as good as professional peat-based growing media: leading horticulturist hits out after herbicide issue

Planning: 16 garden centre and plant nursery developments as more sales expected

Newey wins planning approval for new intermediate tree site

Evergreen Garden Care takes over European growing media company

RHS Malvern 2026 will debut two new features

HTA calls for quicker move to SPS plant import agreement

Royal FloraHolland clock sales dominated by flowers

Winners and losers this horticulture week: Peat, Laskett, garden centre sales

Most read horticulture stories this week: Peat, Ball, nursery launches

APHA issues 'simple' 18-point guide to using Sevington border plant import facilities

Young Horticulturist of the Year launches + previous winners listing

Book review: National Open Garden Scheme Garden Visitor's Handbook 2026

Garden centre seeks £150,000 crowdfunding after losses

British Garden Centres acquires 75th garden centre

Ruxley Manor wins GCA garden centre of the year

New garden centre to close

Dutch outdoor room firm opens new UK showroom

Government scheme sees garden centre manager become horticulture trainer for offenders

Eight learnings from the GCA Conference: Mary Portas, AI, Westland, awards

Former RHS Chelsea Flower Show sponsor The Newt launches its own gardening show

Garden centre winners see changing of the guard

Garden centre café wins plaudits from TV food critic

Book review: The History Trees

Book review: The Man Who Made Plants Write

'Nice' end of year brings garden centre sales to 7.3% up in 2025

Online gardening business set for voluntary strike off

B&M results for last 12 weeks of 2025 shows like-for-like fall

EAMU roundup: January 2026

Water White Paper launches with plan for new water company ‘supervisory bodies’

EAMU expiry alert: March 2026

Growers tackle Nasonovia aphid pressure

New product highlights showcased at LAMMA 2026

NP Structures to launch Constant Tension Retractable roof system at IPM Essen

British Apples & Pears Limited secures £200k ADOPT funding to cut fertiliser use and improve orchard establishment

Boost dopamine with berry puzzle

Horticulture consultant writer Ian Gillott dies

New Covent Garden Market reconfigures

Fertiliser business launches into UK

EAMU roundup: December 2025

Paludiculture Exploration Fund projects demonstrate wetter farming potential, including for sphagnum moss for horticulture

Horticulture science updates: orchids, Himalayan balsam, plant 'breathing'

Defra gives 'much-needed' clarity about subsidies + industry reaction

Health & Safety Executive issues cold weather working warning as snow hits UK UPDATED

Tubex launches biodegradable hedging sleeve

Tenders Tracker: LIVE TABLE

Tate Britain seeks new head gardener

£85m grounds maintenance framework up for grabs

LI launches free resources to drive down carbon in development projects

The King partners with Landform to design RHS Sandringham Flower Show feature garden

Jo Thompson to design Archers 75th Anniversary garden at RHS Badminton Flower Show

VMT partners with rally champion Edd Cobley to launch Lantra-accredited 4x4 training

Gardener’s Diary: Tree pruning in winter

Winners and losers this horticulture week: Perennial quiz winners! Cosmos giveaway, NEC collapse

HortGeeks win Perennial fundraising quiz

Most read this horticulture week: preview, prices, houseplants, Perennial

Rewilded gardens need managing, conference hears

Winners and losers this horticulture week: New years Hons, shrinkflation, Brexit

Most read horticulture stories this week: Garden centre sold, 2025 reviews, snow

Green swap trend: Christmas trees out, houseplants in

FEBRUARY PARKS AND GARDENS MAINTENANCE TASKS

Dame Judi Dench calls to protect parks and green spaces ‘before it's too late’

Storm Chandra hits gardens causing flooding and high winds VIDEO

RBGE outlines two courses for Edinburgh Biomes Project amid rising costs

RBG Kew launches new resource to help close the green careers gap

Clare Matterson to give keynote speech at RHS Wisley Women in Horticulture event

Why is it so hard for gardens to be financially self-sustaining?

EXCLUSIVE Sir Roy Strong's The Laskett Garden closes and may be sold

World’s vast plant knowledge not being fully exploited to tackle biodiversity and climate challenges, warn researchers

RHS announces 18 new partner gardens for 2026

New curator of RHS Garden Bridgewater announced

Storm Goretti clear up begins after ‘worst storm’ in over a decade causes devastating damage

Storm Goretti brings high winds, snow and fallen trees to parks and gardens

PGCA looks to tackle rogue influencers

What are the top 10 plant and fungal species named new to science in 2025?

National Trust creates five national garden roles to replace regional garden consultants

Arboricultural Association raise young tree survival issue in Parliament

Arboricultural Association set to launch new technical guides

Bristol issues tree and woodland maintenance open framework

Plant Healthy looks for international biosecurity engagement

Why cutting down trees will not solve the UK’s subsidence crisis

Government invites bids from enterprises to manage National Forest project

New study reveals 23 tree species needed to support more than 40% of biodiversity associated with Scots pine

Why does UK construction fell thousands of mature trees each year?

HortWeek people of the year 2025: Parts one, two and three

Most read this horticulture year

Perennial responds to surge in helpline calls as more employers face decisions on layoffs

2026 weather outlook

Genetics and epigenetics should be considered alongside species when diversifying the UK’s forests, new paper advises

Defra explains why tree planting scheme reached 9% of target

Defra seek phytopthora review

Sector Review 2025: Arboriculture

FEBRUARY TURFCARE TASKS

BIGGA Award winners 2026 announced

AS Motor founder Eberhard Lange dies aged 40 in avalanche

Fargro to showcase offer at three January/February events

Show Preview: BTME 2026

BIGGA launches initiative to empower women working in golf and turf

Book review: Lawns

Finalists announced for 2026 BIGGA Awards

Sector Review 2025: Turf

Quiz of the Week: 12/12/25

GMA industry awards shortlist announced

GMA NextGen opens applications for new member