Tributes paid at Andy Bunker's funeral

Garden centre July data shows rise in spending

Some 71% of England now officially in drought

Dry weather causes allotment show cancellation + hosepipe ban extension UPDATED

Roses do best in August with replacement plant demand expected in September

Most fragrant rose of 2026 named by legendary rosarian

12 impacts of drought causing horticulture industry behaviour changes

Kew's gardens director Raoul Curtis-Machin: Navigating the first year

How the retail garden seed business is evolving

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

Business Planning: A shorter working week can benefit horticulture employees and employers

Head Gardener: Extreme weather demands strategic planning and planting + Jane Moore VIDEO

Growers’ Guide to Plant Health: Fungal leaf spots

New Plants Radar: Eye-catchers at the Ball Colegrave Summer Showcase

Landscape Management: For large gardens, estates and maintenance firms

Landscape Management: The loneliness of management

Whatever happened to… Efford Experimental Horticultural Station

EPOS Extra: Top 50 garden centre plants January-July 2026

Top 100 garden centre plants: EPOS data July 2026

Tenders Tracker: LIVE TABLE

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

Shortlist announced for GroundsFest Innovation Awards 2026

Tributes paid at Andy Bunker's funeral

Dry weather causes allotment show cancellation + hosepipe ban extension UPDATED

Winners and losers this horticulture week: Burnham, Colegrave, closing

Book review: Grower Gatherer

Meet the Four Oaks speakers: Steve Carter, Fleurie Nurseries

Garden centre sales rise in the heat

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

Applications open for YPHA's 2026-27 management development programme

New HTA survey finds show peat use falling

Garden centre July data shows rise in spending

Some 71% of England now officially in drought

Cyclamen trial visitors get free access to Floral Fantasia

Rare ‘death bloom’ phase begins for decade-old plant at Birmingham Botanical Gardens

Historic gardens unprepared for extreme weather, report finds

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

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

Jonathan Sheppard’s gold medal-winning seeds lead Thompson & Morgan’s 2027 launches

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

Adrian Bloom on how we can get people back into gardening

HortWeek Podcast: ICL’s Steve Chapman on optimising vine weevil control

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: Pulmonaria

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

Anemone

Phlox

Fruit

Fragrant foliage

Vegetable plants

Pyracantha

Carnivorous plants

Nerine

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

Grounds Management Association replaces CEO Geoff Webb with Jason Booth

Movers and people: APPGHG, GIMA, Red diesel UPDATED

Meet the Panellist: Daryl McWhinnie

Planning priorities must reflect essential need for water, food and energy

Applications open for YPHA's 2026-27 management development programme

New HTA survey finds show peat use falling

Jonathan Sheppard’s gold medal-winning seeds lead Thompson & Morgan’s 2027 launches

Colegrave Seabrook Foundation supports Botanical University Challenge and Festival of Botany

Past, present and future favourite varieties displayed at New World Plants open day

Winners and losers this horticulture week: Burnham, Colegrave, closing

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

Hortifeeds exhibits at Four Oaks show 2026

RHS peat-free conference to unveil new research with Westland, ICL and Dr Yusra Zireeni among line-up

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

Six plant nurseries closing or for sale UPDATED

Biological delivery is not a single adjuvant decision

Beekenkamp Plants set to show proven performers at Four Oaks

Ball Colegrave new plant trials visitor favourites named

Task Academy's Rupert Keys writes landscaping DIY guide book

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

Book review: Grower Gatherer

GIMA awards nears sell-out

New Lushly gardening app bridges retail data gap between garden centres and shoppers

New products and exclusive offers from Zest at Four Oaks

Notcutts transforms original garden centre to become destination

Fothergill's: Highlights from seed trials open day

Fleuroselect meets in the USA

Former Kingfisher chairman dies

David Domoney to tour Blue Diamond’s garden centres

Book review: Icons of Kew

Gates hoists flag to celebrate purchase of garden centre

Shows season diversifies for nurseries as RHS cuts major events

Drought hits retail nursery as garden centres increase watering

Nursery holding closing down sale

British berries can take the heat, with the right Government and retailer support

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

Companies House results: EC Drummond, Quantil, LST

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

What important horticulture news have you missed this July?

Companies House results: Polhill, Flamingo, Maze Rattan, EC Drummond

Fungicide to be banned in UK

Growers to share harvest optimisation best practice

Land-based college leaders to meet at Groundsfest 2026

Tenders Tracker: LIVE TABLE

Suståne to showcase solutions for more resilient surfaces at GroundsFest

GroundsFest unveils its 2026 free education programme

Kress returns to GroundsFest 2026

RHS Chelsea Flower Show winning garden begins new life at Sheffield’s Park Hill

Air-Seal to bring tyre sealant expertise to Groundsfest 2026

Garden designers ruminate on the future

Meet the 2026 GroundsFest judges: Howard Drury, consultant

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

Shortlist announced for GroundsFest Innovation Awards 2026

Kubota to showcase machines for all maintenance tasks at GroundsFest 2026

ICL return to Groundsfest

More action, more machines and more Machinery Nation LIVE at Groundsfest

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

GKB Machines to make GroundsFest debut in 2026

Historic gardens unprepared for extreme weather, report finds

Rare ‘death bloom’ phase begins for decade-old plant at Birmingham Botanical Gardens

Councils 'boost park spending by 15% as complaints drop by more than a quarter'

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

Diana playground £3m revamp completed

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

RHS planning for drought until end of August

Future Gardeners celebrates 10 years of trainees finding horticulture careers

Children who spend more time in playgrounds have better mental health

Perennial celebrates 25 years of support services that help horticulturists

Heatwaves impact National Trust World Heritage site garden

RHS research shows how flower colour affects mood

Bill Oddie dies aged 85: tributes to comedian, naturalist and scourge of Defra UPDATED

Ancient woods loss "horrifying" says Woodland Trust

Letter: 'Native-only plants dogma outdated'

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

Call for public to help in fight against ash dieback

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

Growers start journey to produce show-quality peat-free plants

Name change and rebrand for amenity supplier

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

AUGUST TURFCARE TASKS

Glyphosate use in the UK

Meet the 2026 GroundsFest judges: Sally Drury, HortWeek technical editor

Meet the 2026 GroundsFest judges: Marcus Forster, Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Meet the 2026 GroundsFest judges: Martin Towsey, The Bedford Estates

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