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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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tenders

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

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

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

Matt Appleby and Andy Mills

Most Read

Grow up or die out, horticulture conference hears

Lewis Normand

Garden centre selling off Christmas stock as it prepares for closure

closing

HortWeek Podcast: How can garden retailers fight back against shoplifting?

Matt Appleby, Charlie Groves, Nathan Wilson and James Evans

Tributes paid as Four Oaks cash and carry manager dies in car crash aged 52

Marlon Kent

The Laskett sold subject to contract

Laskett

Spiralling haulage costs and supply chain shocks squeeze horticulture sector

Dover - credit: Flickr/Gareth Williams (CC by2.0 DEED)

SHOPLIFTING: Investigation into £16m crime epidemic ripping through UK garden centres PART ONE

Shoplifting data montage

Hortus Loci on market for £3.6m

Hortus Loci aerial view - credit: Christie's

Tommy Walsh dies aged 69

Tommy Walsh

Movers: Levens, Frank P Matthews, Klondyke

Boyle

End of era at BBC Gardeners' World for Monty Don

MD

Winners and losers this horticulture week: bulb boom, SPS, closures

image: Seiont Nurseries

Crocus say Primrose losses over as online businesses merge

Peter Clay and Mark Fane

Growers say investment on hold because of interest rates rise

glasshouse

Most read this horticulture week: Nursery for sale, supplier closes, football, skills

most

Aalsmeer begins promisingly, but 'needs more Brits'

alsmer

Horticulture needs profit, not just training, Kew conference hears

Doyle

Peat ban call, but with provisos

Lewis Normand

Growing media sales rise up to 47%

Horticulture college numbers fall, but Government says funding is up

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

PARTNER CONTENT

Turn garden displays into a sales driver

front of store display

Italy brings nursery expertise to Four Oaks 2026

Italy map

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

plants

GroundsFest 2026: innovation takes centre stage

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

exhibition

Register now for the Four Oaks Trade Show 2026

GroundsFest 2026: where the industry comes together

grounds fest

Is your water-soluble fertiliser strategy delivering maximum return?

irrigation

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

Four Oaks_Stand display

Ornamentals

Caledonian Horticulture returns to Four Oaks

Caledonian

Royal FloraHolland reveals finalists of the Glazen Tulp Award 2027

tulp

Agapanthus AtomicSparkx Lavender enters Plantarium Novelties Awards 2026

Agapanthus AtomicSparkx

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

Bridge

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

Abelia grandiflora ‘Minabtcm16’

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

HortWeek 185

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

most

Allensmore Nurseries awards best garden centre displays

Chepstow

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

Florall

Tory MP, magician and comedian to speak at HTA conference

HTA

Garden retail

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

aa

NPPF effect on garden centres revealed

Chris Primett

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

HortWeek 185

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

Simon Blackhurst

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

Company results

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

HortWeek 185

RHS repeats autumn planting advice

Leigh Hunt

Dobbies to close garden centre

Dobbies

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

HortWeek 185

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

HTA

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

Angus Soft Fruits strawberries

Top 25 Fruit Producers 2026: 6-10

AC Goatham & Son apples

Top 25 Fruit Producers 2026: 11-15

Winterwood

Top 25 Fruit Producers 2026: 16-20

Edward Vinson Sweet Eve strawberry

Top 25 Fruit Producers 2026: 21-25

Fourayes

Garden stars endorse HortWeek as we turn 185

Titchmarsh and Domoney

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

Nigel Jenney

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'

broccoli

Landscape

Book review: The Dustiest Blockbuster at Chelsea

Sargent

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

GroundsFest panel

Tenders Tracker: LIVE TABLE

Tenders tracker logo design

Meet the GroundsFest panellists: Stuart Simpson, Ashlea Ltd

Stuart Simpson

Meet the GroundsFest panellists: Trudy Martin, TruGrow

Trudy Martin

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

housing

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

Alistair Taylor

Meet Jim Croxton, Director on the Amenity Forum Board

Jim Croxton

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

Credit: TP Wood Chippers

Suståne to showcase solutions for more resilient surfaces at GroundsFest

Credit: Suståne

Parks & gardens

New planning rules bad for parks, says Open Spaces Society

Memorial Grounds, West Ham

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

Aidan Pike and Martin Silnevs

Royal Parks stag put down after attack on man

stag

Planning application for well-known park planting transformation submitted

Piccadilly Gardens

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

MHCLG

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

FG

Letter: Children need nature, not sanitised parks

park

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

GroundsFest 2025

Arboriculture

Sweet chestnut blight outbreak spreads

Sweet chestnut blight (Photo d.rigling)

GroundsFest unveils its 2026 free education programme

Education at Groundsfest

Ancient woods loss "horrifying" says Woodland Trust

Oaken Woods: Woodland Trust

HortWeek stories you may have missed this week

Peter Miller

Letter: 'Native-only plants dogma outdated'

oak

What important horticulture news have you missed this July?

drought

Frank P Matthews granted Royal Warrant

Nick Dunn

Another Defra minister leaves Government as Burnham rings changes

Mary Creagh

LAST CALL FOR ENTRIES for GroundsFest 2026 Innovation Awards!

GroundsFest 2025

Product Special: Battery kit update

Batteries and chargers

Turf

Reform attack golf course management degrees again

Official portrait of Suella Braverman MP

Turf drought warning

turf

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

stiga

Name change and rebrand for amenity supplier

Green-tech

Glyphosate use in the UK

Ian Graham

Turf growers criticise water companies over hosepipe bans

turf

Hosepipe ban tracker

Hosepipe ban graphic

JULY TURFCARE TASKS

Golf course

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

Leicester City FC

PEOPLE

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

Gass

Debbie Winstanley appointed non-executive director of Quantil

Debbie Winstanley

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

Sue Medway

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

Jo Thompson © Zoe Norfolk

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

Neil Hornby

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

George Gilchrist

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

Andrew Fuller

Horti House appoints Brian Redman and Daan Spaargaren

Brian Redman and Ed Hill

Volmary appoints well-known grower as Eady steps back

Wayne Eady

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

Geraint Roberts

Galanthus

PLANT LIBRARY

Plant Focus: Galanthus

Plant Focus: Stars of the 2026 Chelsea show gardens

Magnolia stellata ‘Rosea’

Plant Focus: Liquidambar

Liquidambar

Plant Focus: Miscanthus

Miscanthus

Plant Focus: Agapanthus

Agapanthus

Plant Focus: Jasminum

Jasmine

Christmas trees

Christmas trees

Water lilies

Escarboucle

Phlox

Rosa 'Pastell' - credit all pictures: Floramedia Database

Fruit

Korona strawberries

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

Pyracantha Soleil D'Or

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

Nerine Mansellii is one of the older hybrids in genus - credit all images: Floramedia

Fragrant white Clematis

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

Cotinus

Cotinus coggygria. European smoke bush produces bright-green leaves and 20cm-long flower plumes that eventually turn a smoky grey - credit all images: Floramedia

Trees that will tolerate wet sites and waterlogging

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