RHS planning for drought until end of August

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

Carnivorous plant growers call for peat retention: RHS responds

Dry spell dries up plant sales after weeks without rain

RHS reacts to HortWeek reports by introducing shows peat concession for 2027 + grower comments UPDATED

Four Oaks horticulture industry innovators unveiled: shortlisted plants and products revealed

Landscape Management: For large gardens, estates and maintenance firms

Landscape Management: The loneliness of management

Whatever happened to… Efford Experimental Horticultural Station

Top 50 garden centre plants sold January-July 2026 by EPOS data

Top 100 EPOS garden centre plants sold in July 2026

Top 100 EPOS garden products sold by quantity in 2026 year to date

Top 100 EPOS garden centre products sold in July 2026

Top 25 garden centre departments by EPOS sales July 2026

Peter Miller retires after 63 years in horticulture

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

Options for plant nurseries to overcome water-supply challenges

Product Special: Battery kit update

A dozen tips to give your garden centre customers when hosepipes are banned

Off the Peat Path: What has been achieved in Europe?

Growers’ Guide to Plant Health: Leafhoppers, capsids and suckers

RHS reacts to HortWeek reports by introducing shows peat concession for 2027 + grower comments UPDATED

Four Oaks horticulture industry innovators unveiled: shortlisted plants and products revealed

Dry spell dries up plant sales after weeks without rain

Nursery to be sold

Garden centres feel effect of hosepipe ban

Companies House results: David Austin Roses, Plum Products, Langmead Herbs, Barton Grange

Fungicide to be banned in UK

Carnivorous plant growers call for peat retention: RHS responds

Four Oaks: New Plants & Products Awards 2026

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

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

Twin Acre Nurseries Celebrates 50 Years at the Four Oaks Trade Show

Call for ideas to use £3m RHS/APHA plant health Defra funding

Frank P Matthews granted Royal Warrant

We can't keep treating water shortages as a summer emergency

Garden centre planning: Mill Race, Polhill, Dunbar

Winners and losers this horticulture week

Peter Miller retires after 63 years in horticulture

RHS planning for drought until end of August

HortWeek stories you may have missed this week

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

Parks & Gardens Week Horticulture Question Time special with Jane Moore and Joe Whitehead

HortWeek Podcast: GIMA’s Vicky Nuttall on her 12 years in the role and the future of garden retail supply

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

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

Movers and people: Amenity Forum, Mansfield's, Replay, Heligan, RBGE

Royal Parks appoints plant sourcing curator

Growers conference opens for registration

Perennial celebrates 25 years of support services that help horticulturists

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

How HortWeek achieved an RHS peat policy change

What important horticulture news have you missed this July?

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

RHS research shows how flower colour affects mood

Call for ideas to use £3m RHS/APHA plant health Defra funding

Frank P Matthews granted Royal Warrant

Filipendula RHS AGMs awarded

Plant sale of The Julia Rausing Garden featured at RHS Badminton raises more than £24,000 for Horatio’s Garden

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

Twin Acre Nurseries Celebrates 50 Years at the Four Oaks Trade Show

RHS new show in Bristol 8–11 July 2027

Agriculture remains the industry with the highest rate of work-related fatalities

Royal FloraHolland Q2 revenue dips 2.7% as price resilience offsets volume drops

Garden centre planning: Mill Race, Polhill, Dunbar

We can't keep treating water shortages as a summer emergency

Garland to introduce 40 new garden retail products at Glee

Book review: Customer Experience Thinking

Garden centres feel effect of hosepipe ban

Companies House results: David Austin Roses, Plum Products, Langmead Herbs, Barton Grange

Business rates: HTA calls for garden centre cuts

Most read horticulture stories this week: Defra churn, water issues, RIP David Austin

HTA champions horticulture growth in Wales

Garden centres advise on hosepipe bans as 23 million affected UPDATED

HortWeek gives expert commentary to BBC Radio 4 about online plant delivery issues

New rose launched to celebrate 100 years of the National Garden Scheme

Barton Grange final accounts details garden centre and nursery sale to Blue Diamond

Durstons help Pocket Planting gardens secure medals at RHS Badminton

Garden Organic survey of gardeners backs a ban on glyphosate use in playgrounds and gardens

Andy Bunker funeral details announced

New EAMU granted for Romeo on top fruit crops

Essex farm and tenants hit by fire

Fungicide to be banned in UK

Growers to share harvest optimisation best practice

Bionema develops a new bioherbicide to protect high-value crops from weed damage

Science papers: Produce waste, peat pros and cons, greenhouse gases UPDATED

Glyphosate use in the UK

Fresh Produce Consortium asks Burnham to scrap £300m checks on non-EU imports

Defra: 10 ministers in 10 years is too much churn, says Eustice

New Prime Minister Andy Burnham takes over, reshuffles cabinet and promises 'stronger public control'

Companies House results: B&M, Barton Grange, Goatham, Cortland TopCo

Bone-dry July analysis by Environment Agency: Hosepipe bans and garden centre reaction

Horticulture machinery company rescued from administration

UK growers see sales growth

Peat: Growing Media Europe criticises German Government agency

Hosepipe ban tracker

DLF shine a spotlight on sustainable seed solutions at GroundsFest 2026

Baroness build momentum ahead of 20-year milestone with GroundsFest appearance

Winners and losers this horticulture week: Company rescue, water solutions, tree deaths

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

RHS Tatton is back for 2027 but no sign of Hampton while urban show returns

Tender of the Week: National Groundworkers Framework deadline looms

BAGMA to showcase bolstered member benefits at GroundsFest 2026

Tenders Tracker: LIVE TABLE

LAST CALL FOR ENTRIES for GroundsFest 2026 Innovation Awards!

New West End green space gains planning approval

Horticulture’s wish-list for new Prime Minister Andy Burnham

'First and foremost, a gardener': Rose grower David J C Austin dies

Win with Aspen Fuel at GroundsFest 2026

UK's largest urban farm and eco-park sets out to address climate, biodiversity, well-being, employment and public health issues

London College of Garden Design launches Nigel Dunnett Plantsmanship bursary

Hosepipe bans: How they vary

Children who spend more time in playgrounds have better mental health

Heatwaves impact National Trust World Heritage site garden

AUGUST PARKS AND GARDENS MAINTENANCE TASKS

Royal awards reward biodiversity at first RHS Sandringham Flower Show

CambridgeHOK to build three research glasshouses at Kew Wakehurst

Burnham urged to back parks at Green Flag awards

Visitor attractions too expensive, finds ALVA, but gardens look like a bargain

King Charles' Windsor Castle Charles garden opens

Landscaper saves historic park dinosaurs after £17m project

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

Fatal incident involving cattle prompts closure of National Trust estate

RHS Garden Hyde Hall’s Ian le Gros reveals plan for garden

Planning: RIBA awards winners honour four top landscape projects UPDATED

Young designer sweeps the board with debut show garden at RHS Badminton Flower Show

Have Your Say: Consultation opens for UK’s new nature and gardening GCSE

Book review: Nature's Apothecary

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?

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

How Frank P Matthews is facing the future as it celebrates 125 years + VIDEO

Council plans to double tree cover and restore peat bogs after LUC report

Summer heat prompts tree planting demand

Sycamore gap tree stolen

UK International Action Plan for Plant Health 2026 to 2030 launches

Ireland to host Christmas in July for Europe’s Christmas tree growers

Coles Nurseries MD maps out the future of tree and shrub production

AUGUST TURFCARE TASKS

Turf growers criticise water companies over hosepipe bans

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

GroundsFest 2026 Innovation Awards launched

LIVE MAP: horticulture business mergers, closures and sales in 2026

Land managers non-compliant on pesticide enforcement in 97% of HSE control visits

Lord's cricket ground owner MCC admits pitch 'sub-standard'