What’s growing in 2026: Highlights from the Garden Press Event

Garden Press Event at 20 sees new plants, garden centre plans and product promotions revealed

Top 13 Garden Press Event launches

Garden Press Event 2026: VIDEOS + IMAGES

BBC plans gardening programmes for David Attenborough's 100th

Durston Garden Products launches peat-free Houseplant Compost

Pindstrup buys coir business months after buying peat producer

Dobbies Garden Centres begins replacement of Waitrose foodhalls

10 spring heritage and botanic garden plans: Hever, Aberglasney, Arundel, Borde Hill

Flowers from the Farm plans RHS Chelsea Flower Show 'farm'

Gardening TV 'too abstract' says Blue Diamond garden centres' Alan Roper

Mixed feelings about January garden centre sales

New research 'confirms environmental advantage of British apples'

Bionema launches cold-tolerant NemaGen to support turf industry

Coreopsis grandiflora 'Solena'? - New Volmary cultivars with large blooms

RHS Chelsea Flower Show finds a headline sponsor

Chinese New Year lucky houseplants trend

Laskett consultation ends: garden to be sold UPDATED

Climbing plant business to sell up after 'financial challenges'

Sarah Raven horticulture business further financial arrangements revealed

Glasshouse LED business wins £700k funding

RHS launches daffodil survey as it seeks to popularise pinks with grower Scamp's

Garden Centre Association launch hospitality training with Costas Constantinou

Adam Frost to support Plant Healthy biosecurity scheme + members list

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'

Wet weather has been 'demoralising' for landscaping sector

Wet January means later start, but garden centres ready to go: HortWeek speaks to 20 growers and suppliers

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

Design trends from the winners of the SGLD Awards

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

Tenders Tracker: LIVE TABLE

Climbing plant business to sell up after 'financial challenges'

Sarah Raven horticulture business further financial arrangements revealed

Garden Press Event at 20 sees new plants, garden centre plans and product promotions revealed

RHS Chelsea Flower Show finds a headline sponsor

Gardening TV 'too abstract' says Blue Diamond garden centres' Alan Roper

Laskett consultation ends: garden to be sold UPDATED

Top 13 Garden Press Event launches

What’s growing in 2026: Highlights from the Garden Press Event

Mixed feelings about January garden centre sales

Movers and people: Germinal, Jewson, Perennial UPDATED

Adam Frost to support Plant Healthy biosecurity scheme + members list

HortWeek Podcast: ADHD, landscaping and horticulture, with Paul Greenyer, Gareth Wilson and Craig Nester

Garden Centre Association launch hospitality training with Costas Constantinou

Glasshouse LED business wins £700k funding

Chinese New Year lucky houseplants trend

Coreopsis grandiflora 'Solena'? - New Volmary cultivars with large blooms

10 spring heritage and botanic garden plans: Hever, Aberglasney, Arundel, Borde Hill

Wet weather has been 'demoralising' for landscaping sector

New research 'confirms environmental advantage of British apples'

HortWeek Podcast: ADHD, landscaping and horticulture, with Paul Greenyer, Gareth Wilson and Craig Nester

Should we ban peat? Peat panel at BOA Conference 2026

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

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

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

Movers and people: Germinal, Jewson, Perennial UPDATED

Horticulture industry legend to retire

Charles Carr to leave Hillier UPDATED

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

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

Three plants to launch at 'Farplants corner'

Warning: Watch out for Four Oaks scammers

Who would you put on HortWeek's Leading Women in Horticulture list?

Plants for Europe to encourage media attention for FlowerTrials

New nursery exhibitors organisation beats membership target

Valentine's Day sees 12 million more flowers traded

Winners and losers this horticulture week: Hillier, peat, shoplifting, EPR

Most read horticulture stories this week: Hillier, peat, EPR

Hillier awards presented highlighting valued growers and suppliers

Fargro supports EPR transition to more sustainable plastics

Plant Heritage launches plant matchmaking service

Deep sadness at the loss of Camilla Chapman

Jenney to leave Fresh Produce Consortium

Schoneveld Breeding bought

Production horticulture £1,750 work experience bursary launched

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

Secret Gardener #39 – Can 2026 be as good as 2025?

Garden centre group plans fifth site

Three acquisitions on the horizon for British Garden Centres UPDATED

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

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

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

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

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

EPR packaging tax crackdown expected

Gove tells Worshipful Company of Gardeners about importance of horticulture

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

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

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

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

How using peat got back on the agenda

£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

Tenders Tracker: LIVE TABLE

RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 unveils details of this year’s gardens

Project Giving Back to unveil its own garden at Chelsea Flower Show 2025

VMS training programme ‘key’ to addressing skills gap

£10m funding could deliver Scotland’s ‘most ambitious’ example of nature restoration

Tomoko Kawauchi wins Garden of the Year at SGLD Awards

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

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

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

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

National Botanic Garden of Wales secures more funding for ‘vital’ apprenticeships

Chester Zoo to gain international botanic garden status

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

Exhibitors revealed for Arundel Castle’s Plant Fairs Roadshow

Book review: Sakuteiki

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

How apprenticeships are closing Wales’ green skills gap

Church calls for no imported flowers and to ban floral foam

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

Forestry Commission confirms Sweet Chestnut Blight findings in Devon

Frank P Matthews Trees celebrates 125 years

Alba Trees acquires business and assets of Christies of Fochabers

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

Tubex launches biodegradable hedging sleeve

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

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

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

Gardener’s Diary: Tree pruning in winter

New product highlights showcased at LAMMA 2026

Meg Lay named Young New Zealander of the Year

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

Sector Preview 2026: Turf

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

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