Jenney to leave Fresh Produce Consortium

HortWeek to host Parks and Gardens Week: 23-29 March 2026

Meg Lay named Young New Zealander of the Year

Schoneveld Breeding bought

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

Garden centre sales rise in January + tips on how to increase them further

BOA issues urgent call for the ornamentals sector to support crop protection authorisations - now through British Growers Association

Dutch floriculture plea for SPS agreement ahead of Valentine's Day peak

Government plans to ease CITES plant import red tape

Dyke peat ban Bill new reading and roundtable planned, then postponed

Garden furniture sales go online

Frank P Matthews Trees celebrates 125 years

AMES UK for sale

Envii and Garden on a Roll announce new collaboration

Shoplifting: UK's best garden centre calls for joint action

Good carparks and coffee shops are the simple secret to success, says garden centre planner

Exhibitors revealed for Arundel Castle’s Plant Fairs Roadshow

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

Wyevale Nurseries promotes climate resilient plants

Gove tells Worshipful Company of Gardeners about importance of horticulture

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'

10 takeaways from IPM Essen 2026

French plant introductions impress at IPM Essen

IPM Essen 2026 new plants: GALLERY

Brits triumph at IPM: Hillier wins international nursery prize and Henil Vashi wins young grower award

New Plants Radar: First look at the stars of IPM Essen 2026

Greenwood launches climate-resilient plant range at IPM Essen

IPM Essen top five must-sees: HortWeek event, awards, preview, new plants, conifers for the future

Hillier new retail director Carl Milton: the first interview

Garden Press Event preview: plant launches, anniversaries and retail reveals

Kew’s 30th Orchid Festival highlights the success of weather-resilient programming

Growers’ Guide to Plant Health: Leaf and stem nematodes

How garden retailers can convert post-Christmas stock into cash

Whatever happened to… the Glasshouse Crops Research Institute

Sargent’s Solutions: Artificial intelligence and domestic landscape contractors

Growers’ Guide to Plant Health: Phytophthora root rots

Gardener’s Diary: The importance of human contact over the garden fence

Head Gardener: Bare-root plants tick all the boxes for winter planting + Jane Moore VIDEO

Which plants will do well in 2026?

Top 25 garden centre departments: EPOS data January 2026

Top 25 garden centre plants: EPOS data January 2026

How using peat got back on the agenda

Top 100 garden centre products: EPOS data January 2026

Should we ban peat? Peat panel at BOA Conference 2026

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

What are the gaps in the market garden centres should be exploiting? - with Rosie Bone

Val Bourne - a champion for organic gardening

Dutch growers on BCPs, SPS + how 'experiences' could transform garden centres and shows

Ground Control on the maturing BNG market

News In Focus - peat supply and ban, GLEE highlights and garden retail anxiety

HortWeek Podcast: Groundsfest - 'a place where companies strive to do better and it's driving the industry forward'

Tenders Tracker: LIVE TABLE

Charles Carr to leave Hillier

Bad peat-free and lack of basic advice on TV 'is killing the golden goose'

Higher peat-free costs lead to reduced margin at growing media producer

Should we ban peat? Peat panel at BOA Conference 2026

The multiple benefits of horticulture apprenticeships for businesses, new entrants and existing employees

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

Dyke peat ban Bill new reading and roundtable planned, then postponed

EPR packaging tax crackdown expected

Shoplifting: UK's best garden centre calls for joint action

RHS seek celebrity booker for online TV series

Gove tells Worshipful Company of Gardeners about importance of horticulture

AMES UK for sale

Peat use has higher environmental footprint, says Defra

Garden furniture sales go online

Four Oaks Trade Show & HortWeek join forces for return of the industry’s favourite event: 2 & 3 September 2026, Cheshire UK

Government plans to ease CITES plant import red tape

Latest horticulture company results: Evergreen Garden Care, St John's Nurseries, Thanet Earth

Garden Press Event preview: plant launches, anniversaries and retail reveals

Winners and losers this horticulture week: Awards, Gardenex, peat

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

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

New role for horticulture industry veteran Ian Riggs

Richard Wilford appointed course leader at London College of Garden Design after leaving Kew

Klondyke's Yardley to retire with Abbott as replacement

Horticulture movers and people : Royal Parks, Klondyke. LCGD, Autopot UPDATED

Movers and people: YGC, Fischer, LUC, Green-tech UPDATED

Farplants Sales appoints new head of commercial

LBS appoints Andy Judd as new area sales manager

Merrick joins Allensmore Nurseries

Movers and people: Plant Heritage, Bioline, Fallen Fruits, LBS, BHETA, NFU

HortWeek movers of 2025

Garry Grueber to retire

Movers and people: APAC, BGP, Pleydell, Perennial UPDATED

Movers and people: LDA, Barcham Trees, FLS, Provender, Kew, RHS

Barcham Trees MD retires

Eliminate peat use without damaging commercial nurseries

RHS seek celebrity booker for online TV series

Four Oaks Trade Show & HortWeek join forces for return of the industry’s favourite event: 2 & 3 September 2026, Cheshire UK

EPR packaging tax crackdown expected

Peat use has higher environmental footprint, says Defra

Latest horticulture company results: Evergreen Garden Care, St John's Nurseries, Thanet Earth

Winners and losers this horticulture week: Awards, Gardenex, peat

Defra reveals England 384ha extraction area in answer to MP's question

Most read horticulture stories this week: Peat and plant marketing HortWeek seminars, Blue Diamond, Chelsea

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

Secret Gardener #38: What keeps you awake at night?

Alba Trees acquires business and assets of Christies of Fochabers

Last hosepipe ban lifted after 250mm of rain this year

Plantarium best plant winner announced as sales stay stable

SPS deal risks driving costs, trade friction and food inflation as MPs urge caution + reaction

Peat-free plug production at Seiont, two years on

Bad peat-free and lack of basic advice on TV 'is killing the golden goose'

Higher peat-free costs lead to reduced margin at growing media producer

SylvaGrow recognised as best buy

DIY chain wins facial recognition retail crime case

Book review: Sakuteiki

Gardenex and Commercial Horticulture Association in shock closure, blaming Brexit, pandemic and Trump

Growing horticulture enterprise strengthened by nursery acquisition

Blue Diamond garden centres' Alan Roper reveals business lessons at British Ornamentals Association conference

Colegrave Seabrook Foundation sees 20% increase in the number of applications

Church calls for no imported flowers and to ban floral foam

Book review: National Open Garden Scheme Garden Visitor's Handbook 2026

Wildlife World IP and assets bought by STV

Knife suppliers urged to respond to Government proposals on mandatory licensing

Winners and losers this horticulture week: GCA and IPM awards, peat problems, SPS

Most read this horticulture week: IPM reports, GCA winners, peat issues

Retail nursery submits housing plans

US business and G's Group buy Tozer Seeds

Miniature tomato precision breeding project wins £3m Defra funding

LettUs Grow joins £2.4m UK dandelion rubber project

New agricology technical guide supports growers with field vegetable rotations and soil health

EAMU expiry alert: April 2026

Agrichemicals firm hit with £400,000 fine after dangerous steam release

£800m downside to UK-EU SPS agreement, new report suggests

EAMU roundup: January 2026

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

EAMU expiry alert: March 2026

Growers tackle Nasonovia aphid pressure

New product highlights showcased at LAMMA 2026

NP Structures to launch Constant Tension Retractable roof system at IPM Essen

British Apples & Pears Limited secures £200k ADOPT funding to cut fertiliser use and improve orchard establishment

Boost dopamine with berry puzzle

Horticulture consultant writer Ian Gillott dies

Tenders Tracker: LIVE TABLE

Design trends from the winners of the SGLD Awards

Tomoko Kawauchi wins Garden of the Year at SGLD Awards

Landscaping boss ignored director ban and racked up £300,000 in unpaid tax across two companies

Blakedown Landscapes bags memorial gardens regeneration contract

Rachel de Thame, Sue Stuart-Smith, Jinny Blom and Darrell Gale to speak at upcoming event

BALI’s National Landscape Conference to address key challenges and opportunities

Provender Nurseries to host plants@work 25th anniversary event

EXCLUSIVE: RHS Chelsea Flower Show nursery line-up revealed

HortWeek official media partner of BALI’s National Landscape Conference

Garden Press Event announces speaker programme

Tubex launches biodegradable hedging sleeve

National Gallery landscape architecture tender up for grabs

BBC Gardeners' World reveals event details for 2026

Government scheme sees garden centre manager become horticulture trainer for offenders

RHS Malvern 2026 will debut two new features

New survey seeks to understand how climate change is affecting parks and gardens

How apprenticeships are closing Wales’ green skills gap

Flower show cancelled again

FEBRUARY PARKS AND GARDENS MAINTENANCE TASKS

Dame Judi Dench calls to protect parks and green spaces ‘before it's too late’

Storm Chandra hits gardens causing flooding and high winds VIDEO

Former RHS Chelsea Flower Show sponsor The Newt launches its own gardening show

Tate Britain seeks new head gardener

RBGE Regius Keeper Simon Milne highlights importance of plants

Winners and losers this horticulture week: Peat, Laskett, garden centre sales

Most read horticulture stories this week: Peat, Ball, nursery launches

Young Horticulturist of the Year launches + previous winners listing

RBGE outlines two courses for Edinburgh Biomes Project amid rising costs

RBG Kew launches new resource to help close the green careers gap

Clare Matterson to give keynote speech at RHS Wisley Women in Horticulture event

VMT partners with rally champion Edd Cobley to launch Lantra-accredited 4x4 training

New study shows that extensive tree planting would be necessary to achieve net-zero carbon emissions in Scotland’s livestock sector by 2050

Ending EU bans on high-risk plant imports is 'paused'

First UK robotic potting line launched at Barcham Trees

Arboricultural Association raise young tree survival issue in Parliament

Newey wins planning approval for new intermediate tree site

Book review: The History Trees

£85m grounds maintenance framework up for grabs

Arboricultural Association set to launch new technical guides

Gardener’s Diary: Tree pruning in winter

Bristol issues tree and woodland maintenance open framework

Plant Healthy looks for international biosecurity engagement

Why cutting down trees will not solve the UK’s subsidence crisis

Government invites bids from enterprises to manage National Forest project

New study reveals 23 tree species needed to support more than 40% of biodiversity associated with Scots pine

Winners and losers this horticulture week: New years Hons, shrinkflation, Brexit

Health & Safety Executive issues cold weather working warning as snow hits UK UPDATED

FEBRUARY TURFCARE TASKS

BIGGA Award winners 2026 announced

AS Motor founder Eberhard Lange dies aged 40 in avalanche

Fargro to showcase offer at three January/February events

Show Preview: BTME 2026

Most read horticulture stories this week: Garden centre sold, 2025 reviews, snow

BIGGA launches initiative to empower women working in golf and turf

Perennial responds to surge in helpline calls as more employers face decisions on layoffs

2026 weather outlook

Book review: Lawns

Finalists announced for 2026 BIGGA Awards

Sector Review 2025: Turf