TOP NEWS

Trees need maintenance or they will die, but heavy standards do better: Experts react to HortWeek investigation UPDATED

Gold medal-winning plant nursery for sale for £100,000 freehold

Tree-death rate up to 70% in heatwave + interactive MAP

Late-season resilience: Growers and retailers beat summer drought to drive autumn momentum

Allensmore Nurseries reports strong summer performance despite UK drought

Thetford Garden Centre Allensmore promotion

RHS launches survey on effect of drought on gardens + Guy Barter interview

New hosepipe ban in west

Eden Project 'halts decline' + Andy Jasper interview

Allensmore, Klondyke and Oxford Biodegradable Solutions trial biodegradable pots

Dry weather causes allotment show cancellation + hosepipe ban extension UPDATED

TOP STORY

Top targets revealed as garden centre shoplifting soars by 67%

MORE NEWS

Canada 'reframes' peat v peat-free

Coir business appoints voluntary liquidator

Turf grower plight shown in new video

EU SPS reset and regulation of plant protection products: Horticulture Crop Protection mythbusters for growers

Council fined £6,000 after stepladder collapse at farm leaves worker with broken ribs

Neville Fay dies aged 78

Four Oaks panel discussion: What’s the Next Step for Peat-Free?

Blakedown wins top landscape contract

BBC features Bents garden centre on impact of drought

Winners and losers this horticulture week

FEATURES

Landscape Management: The unintended consequences of professionalism in horticulture

Whatever happened to… Fromefield Nursery

Plant Focus: Shrubby hydrangeas for dry conditions

10 growers share their summer story

Product Special: Bigger and better glasshouses for more efficient production

Autumn gardening shift: Dry summer heat triggers garden centre deals and new planting habits

Exhibitors, awards and seminars set to feature at Four Oaks Trade Show

Fothergill's Michael Yates on growth and omnichannel strategy: Expanding global reach and in service of seed innovation

Meet Tom Arnold, director on the Amenity Forum board

Whatever happened to… Efford Experimental Horticultural Station

HORTWEEK TV

View winners, demos, guides, interviews, product tests, seminars and more...

EVENTS

GroundsFest 2026 Innovation Awards launched

National Plant Show New Plant Awards entries 2026

Red hosta forecast to sell one million plants after Chelsea triumph

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

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

Project Giving Back to unveil its own garden at Chelsea Flower Show 2025

Exhibitors revealed for Arundel Castle’s Plant Fairs Roadshow

Flower show cancelled again

TENDERS TRACKER:
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public sector
tenders

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

Ask Sally: How can tyres help to ensure safer journeys?

Ask Sally: What is the best approach to stay safe when working from ladders?

Ask Sally: What should employers do to make working at height safer for staff?

Ask Sally: How should workplace injuries and illnesses be reported?

Ask Sally: What should be done to make workplace transport safer?

Ask Sally: What are the key factors when choosing a trimmer?

Ask Sally: How should employers tackle work-related stress?

Ask Sally: Why is it important to choose the correct PPE?

How should you manage horticultural workers in cold weather?

How does the duty of care apply to volunteer labour?

PODCASTS

ICL's Brendan Howell on the horticulture market in Ireland

Memories and reflections from 185 years of HortWeek - with Matthew Appleby and Sally Drury

Greosn CEO Matt Jarrett on market consolidation, tech Investment, and labour challenges in the UK's fruit production sector

Help for horticulturists in need with Perennial trustees, Richard Lawton and Neville Stein

Andy Mills on Blenheim Palace Garden's Restoration - climate shifts, lost landscapes and long grass

Turn garden displays into a sales driver

Italy brings nursery expertise to Four Oaks 2026

Inside the Flemish Pavilion: five nurseries to discover at Four Oaks

GroundsFest 2026: innovation takes centre stage

Greenitaly 2026: Italy’s international showcase for horticulture and landscape

Register now for the Four Oaks Trade Show 2026

GroundsFest 2026: where the industry comes together

Is your water-soluble fertiliser strategy delivering maximum return?

International growers lead major plant line-up for 54th Four Oaks

Ornamentals

Caledonian Horticulture returns to Four Oaks

Royal FloraHolland reveals finalists of the Glazen Tulp Award 2027

Agapanthus AtomicSparkx Lavender enters Plantarium Novelties Awards 2026

Bridge Greenhouses wins project to refurbish research-grade glasshouse at Aberystwyth University

PLANTARIUM|GROEN-Direkt Autumn Fair to present 75 new plants

HortWeek 185th anniversary: What horticulture means to Helen Cox and Steve Dowbiggin

Most read this horticulture week: garden centre sold/closing, Eden, peat

Allensmore Nurseries awards best garden centre displays

Florall to host HTA talk on SPS agreement with EU + new plant awards entries

Tory MP, magician and comedian to speak at HTA conference

Garden retail

Hort movers and people: VMS, Discount Displays, Maze, Coolings, Blue Ribbon UPDATED

NPPF effect on garden centres revealed

HortWeek 185th anniversary: What horticulture means to Kate Ebbens and Peter Brammal

Meet the Four Oaks speakers: Simon Blackhurst, Growing Media Association

Horticulture Company results: Berwick-Upon-Tweed Garden Centre, Cotton Traders, Eden Project

HortWeek 185th anniversary: What horticulture means to Mark Gregory and Meg Warren-Davis

RHS repeats autumn planting advice

Dobbies to close garden centre

HortWeek 185th anniversary: What horticulture means to Steve Carter and David Domoney

HTA expands HortWeek plant pot probe to spearhead new kerbside recycling campaign

Fresh produce

CAAV joins calls for UK Government to make it easier for growers to build reservoirs

Jeremy Moody, secretary and adviser to the Central Association for Agricultural Valuers

Top 25 Fruit Producers 2026: 1-5

Top 25 Fruit Producers 2026: 6-10

Top 25 Fruit Producers 2026: 11-15

Top 25 Fruit Producers 2026: 16-20

Top 25 Fruit Producers 2026: 21-25

Garden stars endorse HortWeek as we turn 185

Fresh Produce Consortium launches national action platform as industry warns UK food system risk is “at tipping point”

Modern horticulture deserves a bigger place in Britain's food future: Labour MP says Government policy must back the UK fresh produce production

Ben Goldsborough - credit: House of Commons/ Roger Harris (CC by 3.0)

Drought food production situation 'critical'

Landscape

Book review: The Dustiest Blockbuster at Chelsea

GroundsFest panel discussion - Future-ready Landscapes: resilient planting, healthier soils and smarter inputs

Tenders Tracker: LIVE TABLE

Meet the GroundsFest panellists: Stuart Simpson, Ashlea Ltd

Meet the GroundsFest panellists: Trudy Martin, TruGrow

Reaction to new National Planning Policy Framework shake-up of planning policy

Meet the GroundsFest panellists: Alistair Taylor, Origin Amenity Solutions Ltd

Meet Jim Croxton, Director on the Amenity Forum Board

TP Wood Chippers to unveil all-new TP216 and TP206 ranges at GroundsFest and APF 2026

Suståne to showcase solutions for more resilient surfaces at GroundsFest

Parks & gardens

New planning rules bad for parks, says Open Spaces Society

Kew Gardens’ giant waterlilies hold 102kg in 2026 Waterlily Weigh-Off

Royal Parks stag put down after attack on man

Planning application for well-known park planting transformation submitted

Inquest opens into death of man at National Trust estate

Felbrigg Hall CC BY-SA 2: Philip Halling

Gardens Trust 'devastated' by loss of statutory planning consultee role

Bankside Open Spaces Trust secures City & Guilds accreditation as Future Gardeners turns 10

Letter: Children need nature, not sanitised parks

Take on the TinyMobileRobots challenge to win big with Origin Amenity at GroundsFest

Tiny Mobile Robots - credit: Origin Amenity

Shortlist announced for GroundsFest Innovation Awards 2026

Arboriculture

Sweet chestnut blight outbreak spreads

GroundsFest unveils its 2026 free education programme

Ancient woods loss "horrifying" says Woodland Trust

HortWeek stories you may have missed this week

Letter: 'Native-only plants dogma outdated'

What important horticulture news have you missed this July?

Frank P Matthews granted Royal Warrant

Another Defra minister leaves Government as Burnham rings changes

LAST CALL FOR ENTRIES for GroundsFest 2026 Innovation Awards!

Product Special: Battery kit update

Turf

Reform attack golf course management degrees again

Official portrait of Suella Braverman MP

Turf drought warning

STIGA heads to GroundsFest 2026 with professional power, try-outs and surprises

Name change and rebrand for amenity supplier

Glyphosate use in the UK

Turf growers criticise water companies over hosepipe bans

Hosepipe ban tracker

JULY TURFCARE TASKS

Harrowden acquires George Davies Turf & Stone

George Davies, Stuart and Chantall Ridd-Jones

ICL launch Hort Science Live at James Coles Nurseries with event at Leicester City FC

PEOPLE

Movers and people: Creative Gardens, Barnsdale, SoilsCon, Durstons UPDATED

Debbie Winstanley appointed non-executive director of Quantil

Movers and people: Chelsea Physic Garden, West Dean, HTA, AHDB, MSC

Movers and people: LCGD, NAS, RFH, GCA, Arundel Castle

Movers and people: Natural England, King Charles, Tiger, Briggs & Stratton, Defra UPDATED

Movers and people: CIOH, Defra, Chessington, Koppert, Creation UPDATED

Movers and people this horticulture week: Volmary, Creation, SRUC, LI, APPGHG, CIOH UPDATED

Horti House appoints Brian Redman and Daan Spaargaren

Volmary appoints well-known grower as Eady steps back

Movers and people: Newbank, Seed Revolution, Defra, Volmary UPDATED

PLANT LIBRARY

Plant Focus: Galanthus

Plant Focus: Stars of the 2026 Chelsea show gardens

Plant Focus: Liquidambar

Plant Focus: Miscanthus

Plant Focus: Agapanthus

Plant Focus: Jasminum

Christmas trees

Water lilies

Phlox

Rosa 'Pastell' - credit all pictures: Floramedia Database

Fruit

Fragrant foliage

Elsholtzia stauntonii has slender spires of lilac or pale purple from August until the end of October - credit all images: Floramedia Database)

Pyracantha

Carnivorous plants

Each Dionaea muscipula plant has six or more leaves, varying from green to red, ending in a hinged trap flushed green/pink or red inside - all images: Floramedia Database

Nerine

Fragrant white Clematis

C. × triternata ‘Rubromarginata’ has reddish-purple edges - credit all images: Floramedia Database

Cotinus

Trees that will tolerate wet sites and waterlogging

Salix alba - credit all images (except where captioned) Floramedia

Head Gardener, Benarth Hall

Benarth Hall, Benarth Hall, Conwy, North Wales,
Head of Horticulture

Botanical Operations Ltd, Isle of Man
Head Gardener, Batsford Park

Batsford Park, Batsford Park. North Cotswolds, just outside Moreton-in-Marsh
Senior Gardener

Belcombe Court, Bath
Garden Maintenance Foreperson

Fresh Horticultural Careers, London and the Home Counties
Head Gardener

Fresh Horticultural Careers, West London
Gardener x 3

City of London, London
Gardener (Volunteer Facilitator)

City of London, London
Head Gardener, Scotland

Horatios Garden, Glasgow
Home delivery Driver

Fresh Horticultural Careers, Chelsea