HortWeek Podcast: News In Focus - Prizes, products and pilfering at Four Oaks 2026 and HortWeek's new plant ID game Hortle goes viral

Matt Appleby and Sally Drury

HortWeek editor Matt Appleby and technical editor Sally Drury report on the essential horticulture stories of the week.

Topics for this week:

  • Four Oaks Trade Show: winning plants and products
  • Peat-free panel update
  • And HortWeek's plant-identification game which launched at Four Oaks and is taking the YPHA by storm, Hortle.life - how many can you score?

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