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Gardener’s Diary: Coping with the changing climate in our gardens

Why it is time for the fresh-produce sector to adopt a fresh outlook

Hot weather shows need to invest in green infrastructure

How Nunhead Gardener cultivated a season-proof business model

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Biological control in the British soft-fruit sector

Exiting the horticulture industry and minimising inheritance tax

Gardener’s Diary: Creating breathtaking meadows

Golf must move from reactive pest control to regenerative biological turf management

Adapt to modern marketing techniques to succeed in garden retail

HortWeek report exposes disconnect between retail trend for plant 'premiumisation' and climate pressure

The horticulture industry has a problem...

Barrell on: Urban tree canopy cover assessment: a new climate adaptation tool for planning

Gardener’s Diary: Finding ways to deal with unwanted return visitors

Organic fertilisers providing welcome certainty for farmers in volatile times, says SoilWorx

How seed growing is becoming the next big wellness movement

The Gardens Trust: protecting parks and gardens

Biologicals are not failing, formulation and delivery are

Secret Gardener #41: Garden Centre - an establishment where plants and gardening equipment are sold

Growers need a planning framework that recognises the importance of water storage to modern horticulture

Wales horticulture has a positive green story to tell – and we should start telling it

Microbial engines for peat‑free: How biofertilisers turn inert substrates into reliable growing systems

Gardener’s Diary: Different clients, different approaches

Secret Gardener #40 - What’s the Plan?

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

Eliminate peat use without damaging commercial nurseries

Derek Jarman

Ongoing challenges for smaller nurseries

Kyle Ross

Irrigation tops the list of challenges for growing quality trees

Jane Lawler

How garden retailers are bucking the gloomy high street trend

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

In a private moment when asked “what keeps you awake at night”, a leading garden retail executive candidly revealed, "have reached peak garden centre demographic?”

News in Focus - must-have garden products, can one-stop shops work in UK and hort salaries

Sally Drury, Matt Appleby and Douglas Newbery

HortWeek Podcast/The Plant Based Podcast: HortWeek editor Matthew Appleby is interviewed by Michael Perry and horticulturist Ellen Mary

Matt Appleby, Michael Perry and Ellen May

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

Helen Waddington, Rachael Forsyth and Michael Buck

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

Jane Moore, Rachael Forsyth and Joe Whitehead

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

The challenges and politics of water management for horticulture - with John Adlam

HortWeek Podcast: Professional Gardeners Guild chair Joe Whitehead on how the PGG is looking towards its 50th anniversary

The wonderful world of sustainable, small scale and peat-free flower farming - with Georgie Newbery