Garden centres should check their rateable values ahead of revaluation, says Malcolm Scotts

Chelsea 2026 press conference: embracing caterpillar damage, team recognition and ‘riot of colours’

RHS celebrates women in horticulture at Chelsea press conference

Book review: In Botanical Time

Plants up almost 9% in February, finds Garden Centre Association

David Beckham RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden plans revealed

Most read horticulture stories this week: plant nursery closure, Dobbies streamlines, Mother's day sales

Winners and losers this horticulture week: Beckham garden, Yellow Day, plastic pots

Outdoor attractions 2025 visitor numbers up 2%, reveals latest ALVA figures

Emmett re-elected as NFU hort board chair

RHS Sandringham Flower Show to feature a garden for frogs

Royal Horticultural Society lifts gnome ban at 2026 RHS Chelsea Flower Show

BALI reveals plans for garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Dobbies Garden Centres shows off new food halls

Kew looks to philanthropy to help herbarium move

Sex toy retailer to back RHS Chelsea Flower Show display

Melcourt's Sylvamix turns 25

Chelsea 2026 launch hears about new funding, Beckham, caterpillars and nurseries

Retail nursery taken over by garden centre group + biggest groups list

RHS 'Sustainable Excellence' shortlist announced

Kevin Line's Plant Favourites: Primula elatior

BALI National Landscape Conference 2026: Five questions with Verna director of ecology Helen Nyul

What is the secret to British Garden Centres’ success?

Growers’ Guide to Plant Health: Aphids on ornamental crops

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

What are the latest developments in the peat issue?

Alton Garden Centre: IN PICTURES

Gardener’s Diary: Different clients, different approaches

Top 25 garden centre departments: EPOS data February 2026

100 leading women in UK horticulture 2026

Growers’ Guide to Plant Health: Bacterial and fungal cankers

VIDEO: What do the horticulturists of the future want?

New Plants Radar: Choice picks from the Plantarium Groen-Direkt trade fair

Whatever happened to… Southdown Flowers

Top 20 British Standards for UK landscapers and designers

Tenders Tracker: LIVE TABLE

Plant nursery files notice of intention to appoint administrators

Retail nursery taken over by garden centre group + biggest groups list

Retail nursery closing after 40 years

Movers and people: Blue Diamond, PSB, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, CC, NFU

Blue Diamond celebrates staff success as profits rise

Mother's Day sees good garden centre sales, but no match for 2025 UPDATED

Sex toy retailer to back RHS Chelsea Flower Show display

Waste management company fined after employee falls from compost screening machine

Growers welcome ‘Happy Yellow Day’ + 7 grower selections

David Beckham RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden plans revealed

Farm inheritance tax 'illegal', court hears

AMES break-up begins

Provender Nurseries to champion sustainable landscape architecture at New Scientist Live 2026

Concerns aired over Iran war’s impact on fertiliser prices UPDATED

Garden centre sales rise in February, but consumer confidence remains fragile

Most read horticulture stories this week: plant nursery closure, Dobbies streamlines, Mother's day sales

Idverde buys Spanish landscaping and nursery group

Scotch Corner plans £25m fundraiser

UK oaks under pressure, Action Oak report finds

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

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

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

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

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: Blue Diamond, PSB, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, CC, NFU

EXCLUSIVE: Two new gardening buyers for Blue Diamond Garden Centres

GIMA appoints new director

New Garden Centre Association inspector appointed

Movers and people: Redexim, GCA, YGC, NIAB

Movers and people this horticulture week: Creation, ORL, GCA

Ross moves to Blue Diamond

RHS reveal peat-free fellow Prasad's replacement

Movers and people: SBM, Prosper, HTA, RHS, NFU

New chair for garden centre buying group

Movers and people: Germinal, Jewson, Perennial UPDATED

Horticulture industry legend to retire

Charles Carr to leave Hillier UPDATED

Movers and people: RHS, Hillier, B&Q, phs Greenleaf, Notcutts, FPC

EXCLUSIVE: RHS peat-free plant buyer to move to B&Q - updated

Fullbrook Nursery brings in four, including Newman from Boningale

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

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

Provender Nurseries to champion sustainable landscape architecture at New Scientist Live 2026

Plant Producers launch Six Pack Award funding 2026

Waste management company fined after employee falls from compost screening machine

Farm inheritance tax 'illegal', court hears

Concerns aired over Iran war’s impact on fertiliser prices UPDATED

Plant nursery files notice of intention to appoint administrators

Growers welcome ‘Happy Yellow Day’ + 7 grower selections

Idverde buys Spanish landscaping and nursery group

Biologicals are not failing, formulation and delivery are

Hayloft Plants to specialise in Alstroemerias

Plant Heritage Missing Collector Garden to go to Chester Zoo

Winners and losers this horticulture week: acquisitions, top women, pansies

Situation in the Middle East also affects the substrate sector

Most read this horticulture week: BGC, Blue Diamond, women's day

Little Miss Sunshine shines 17 years later as annual pansy and viola festival blooms

Bridgerton vibe for Klondyke Garden Centres annual plant show

Book review: In Bloom

Book review: A Year in the Cottage Garden

Blue Diamond celebrates staff success as profits rise

Garden centre sales rise in February, but consumer confidence remains fragile

Hardware and DIY delivery speeds up

Wickes sees success in new results + more Companies House returns from Branded Garden Products, Premier Decorations, Alba

Ashmolean Museum hosts In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World

HortWeek to chair GIMA session on Forecasting For Future Talent

Scotch Corner plans £25m fundraiser

Retail violence seen by 1/5 of people

Mother's Day sees good garden centre sales, but no match for 2025 UPDATED

Book review: The Productive Garden

Book review: A Year of Colour

GARDENA allotment competition returns with Huw Richards

CambridgeHOK celebrate record sales, with Ball and APS among top new glasshouse clients

THE WAR ON PLASTIC PLANT POTS: Which councils plan to recycle following new regulations?

Land Use Framework unveiled + industry reaction

Iran: Growers speak on potential food shortages UPDATED

EAMU expiry alert: May 2026

Defra's Eagle reassures about UK fruit and veg growing security

NFU meet Defra about Iran war

Light Science Technologies raising £6.6m to expand UPDATED

Growers need a planning framework that recognises the importance of water storage to modern horticulture

NFU doubles down on call for SPS delay, while plant importers welcome Defra progress on EU agreement

Defra asks for help as EU deal expected by mid-2027

'Rare opportunity' for commercial growers

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

EAMU roundup: February 2026

Winners and losers this horticulture week: women in hort, BGC, Iran

Middle East conflict hitting horticulture: 7 industry leaders speak EXCLUSIVE UPDATED

SPS agreement would hit growers, CropLife suggests

Peat hearing burns opportunity for ban debate UPDATED

Landform Consultants build exhibit for RHS Chelsea skincare sponsor

Tenders Tracker: LIVE TABLE

Winners of the APL Awards 2026 announced

McLaren's Nurseries launch open day

Sir Tim Smit to headline BALI National Landscape Conference on climate resilience + full agenda

plants@work launches Pride Network

Horticulture winners announced at ALBAS 2026

Most read horticulture stories this week: Monty Don, IWD, Klondyke

David Domoney to give keynote address at Capel Manor College sponsorship event

RHS Wisley Women in Horticulture event: lessons from leading women

Defra defends action on ecosystem collapse

Horticulture investment hits a wall amid mounting profitability fears

Book review: The Landscape of Man

MARCH PARKS AND GARDENS MAINTENANCE TASKS

Bernhard’s Nurseries launch Jeffrey Bernhard OBE Training Suite

Grounds maintenance company fined after employee killed operating ride-on lawnmower

RHS launches well-being garden blueprint

Rhododendrons blooming at Kew Wakehurst as conservation project begins

Chris Packham plants Trees for Cities’ two millionth tree

Trust seeking views on how good UK parks are for wildlife

Council lease saves threatened Duke of Northumberland allotments

Hockney exhibition set to bring more visitors to Hyde Park

Weather app rain icon costing attractions up to £137,000 a day: RHS, Eden and 80 more demand action

RHS rejects dog-friendly rollout plan one year after Monty Don RHS Chelsea Flower Show dog garden

BBC Gardeners' World returns as Monty Don speaks on plans for 2026

Downton Abbey’s Jim Carter calls on councils to follow Hounslow’s lead with ‘Right to Grow’ policy

Parks recognised as ‘vital assets’ but 81% of local authorities expect funding to decrease, new report finds

The Magnolias at Caerhays Castle launches

Four in five have 15-minute access to green and blue space in England

Eden Project announces £6.8bn economic impact ahead of 25th birthday + VIDEO

RHS chief Clare Matterson: Horticulture thrives when women lead

Councils must enforce new litter laws from 3 March

UK oaks under pressure, Action Oak report finds

Action planned after UK Pest Risk Analysis for beech disease Litylenchus crenatae

MPs to examine ancient woodlands protection

Tree disease restrictions lifted

Book review: The Arboretum

Horticulture bodies hope to support careers at New Scientist Live

Felling action should not result in death of oak, finds Forestry Commission

Christmas trees already in demand

Phytophthora pluvialis: no quarantine pest order

Defra to make it easier to cull deer and grey squirrels

Adam Frost to support Plant Healthy biosecurity scheme + members list

Who would you put on HortWeek's Leading Women in Horticulture list?

Forestry Commission confirms Sweet Chestnut Blight findings in Devon

Production horticulture £1,750 work experience bursary launched

700k Christmas trees to be planted but production costs rise by a quarter

Frank P Matthews Trees celebrates 125 years

BioScapes becomes lead brand of Rolawn turf business

MARCH TURFCARE TASKS

GMA launches Workforce Insight Report finding high proportion of older men work in grounds management

Bionema launches cold-tolerant NemaGen to support turf industry

Meg Lay named Young New Zealander of the Year

Wildflower Turf becomes Wildflower Co. in first rebrand in 23 year history

FEBRUARY TURFCARE TASKS

BIGGA Award winners 2026 announced

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

AS Motor founder Eberhard Lange dies aged 40 in avalanche

Fargro to showcase offer at three January/February events

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