Peat: Growers moving forward but Government direction and retail products needs to improve: VIDEO + AUDIO

British Ornamentals Association technical conference: 13 takeaways UPDATED

British Ornamentals Association awards honour Brough, Douglas-Davies, Heemskerk, Whiteman and Want

Floral Fantasia 'shows bedding not out of fashion'

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

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

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

Growers’ Guide to Plant Health: Caterpillars

Whatever happened to… Fromefield Nursery

Growers’ Guide to Plant Health: Rust on ornamental plants

Plant Focus: Shrubby hydrangeas for dry conditions

10 growers share their summer story

Product Special: Bigger and better glasshouses for more efficient production

Meet Jim Croxton, Director on the Amenity Forum Board

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

Growers’ Guide to Plant Health: Tarsonemid and eriophyid mites

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

Peat: six updates to keep you in the know about policy

Whatever happened to… Efford Experimental Horticultural Station

Landscape Management: The loneliness of management

Landscape Management: For large gardens, estates and maintenance firms

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

Groesn 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

Chemical-free landscaping for pollinators - with Sue Payne of Q&S Commercial Landscaping and Alison Benjamin of Urban Bees

Are garden centre margins too high? Peat-free hits the national press, hosepipe bans and the effect of horticulture's absence from school careers advice

Transforming Birmingham Botanic Gardens in terms of plants, culture, well-being and learning - with Sara Blair-Manning

News in Focus - must-have garden products, can one-stop shops work in UK and hort salaries

HortWeek Podcast/The Plant Based Podcast: HortWeek editor Matthew Appleby is interviewed by Michael Perry and horticulturist Ellen Mary

Salaries report 2026 Special Podcast with Viki Halkett of Fresh Horticultural Careers and Haymarket Recruitment's Vishnu Kannan

News In Focus - Football World Cup, plant shows, FlowerTrials

HortWeek Podcast: Winning new plant and horticulture business awards with Pippa Greenwood, Steph Dunn James and Adam Dunnett

HortWeek fresh produce Iran war summit: Part 2 - Vegetables

HortWeek fresh produce Iran war summit: Part 1 - Fruit

HortWeek Podcast: ICL’s Andrew Wilson on fertilisers for the future

HortWeek Podcast: Lee Connelly on The Classroom Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Jonathan Sheppard on the true cost of a RHS Chelsea Flower Show gold

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

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

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

UK fruit producers show resilience and growth in latest Top 25 Fruit Producers ranking

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 10 Turf Growers 2025

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

Fruit

Fragrant foliage

Pyracantha

Carnivorous plants

Nerine

Fragrant white Clematis

Cotinus

Trees that will tolerate wet sites and waterlogging

Movers and people: VMS, Discount Displays, Maze, Blue Ribbon, Coolings

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

Another Defra minister leaves Government as Burnham rings changes

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

Upson to leave RHS

Movers and people: BGC, ISW, Corby+Fellas, ICL, Plant Team. Kew, Fargro, RHS UPDATED

Matt Day launches horticultural supply business

Defra ministerial team reshuffled

Movers and people: Green Solutions, Yeo, West Dean KLC UPDATED

New head judge and media partner for Society of Garden and Landscape Designers awards

Movers and people this horticulture week: Q&S, GCA, GIMA UPDATED

Hortipak staff find new roles

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

Floral Fringe Fair cancelled after death of founder

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

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

Plantipp showcases innovative plants at Plantarium|Groen-Direkt 2026

Meet the Four Oaks speaker: David Nieburg

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

NPPF effect on garden centres revealed

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

RHS repeats autumn planting advice

New hosepipe ban in west

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

EV charging specialist makes Glee debut to target garden centres

Macpac drives horticultural growth following Illig machine investment

Garden centre sales figures rise 10% in July

Book review: A Year in the Garden

Irish garden retailer rescued

Allensmore, Klondyke and Oxford Biodegradable Solutions trial biodegradable pots

Garden stars endorse HortWeek as we turn 185

Floral Affection one-woman small business to exhibit at Four Oaks

Book review: Grower Gatherer

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

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

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

Drought food production situation 'critical'

BAPL says apple supplies will beat drought

Most farmers not confident about the future, Defra survey finds

HortWeek stories you may have missed this week

New EAMU granted for Romeo on top fruit crops

More than half of England officially in drought: NFU issues advice

Over a fifth of farms experienced crime in the last 12 months finds survey

Essex farm and tenants hit by fire

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

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

GroundsFest unveils its 2026 free education programme

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

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

Shortlist announced for GroundsFest Innovation Awards 2026

Most read this horticulture week: Nurseries on market, Burnham backs GYO, Ball top plants

Kubota to showcase machines for all maintenance tasks at GroundsFest 2026

Perennial set for Four Oaks seminar as part of strongest-ever line-up at the show

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

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

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

Eden Project 'halts decline' + Andy Jasper interview

Letter: Children need nature, not sanitised parks

Dry weather causes allotment show cancellation + hosepipe ban extension UPDATED

Scale of UK flash drought prompts the charity Eden Project to share its water saving advice

Kew’s Carbon Garden celebrates a year of inspiring climate action with perennial palette

The Miracle-Gro RHS Floral Fantasia Garden officially opens for 2026

Get Britain growing: horticulturists react to allotment and growing pack idea

Winners and losers this horticulture week

Heatwave reveals Blenheim Palace’s ‘lost’ 18th century garden + head gardener podcast

Sweet chestnut blight outbreak spreads

Ancient woods loss "horrifying" says Woodland Trust

Letter: 'Native-only plants dogma outdated'

What important horticulture news have you missed this July?

Frank P Matthews granted Royal Warrant

LAST CALL FOR ENTRIES for GroundsFest 2026 Innovation Awards!

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

Product Special: Battery kit update

Air-Pot meets royals

National Highways launches rescue trial after mass tree deaths on £1.5bn road scheme

Winners and losers this horticulture week: hosepipes, margins, peat

What was HortWeek's most read story this week?

Up to 1/3 of newly planted UK council trees have died, FOI data reveals

Tender of the Week: Rhododendron clearance project

Tree Council opens £2.5m Trees Outside Woodland planting fund

Agriculture and forestry remain deadliest work sectors, finds HSE

Reform attack golf course management degrees again

Turf drought warning

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

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

What is happening with horticulture salaries and recruitment?

Arb Association warns of tree heatwave deaths

Beat the heat: Essential new survival guide for the workplace