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LATEST NEWS

Imports

Winners and losers this horticulture week

Blakedown completes landscaping works on RHS’s first greener skills garden

Piccadilly Gardens to ‘up its game’ as LDA Design reveals transformation plans

HortWeek Quiz of the Week - 21/10/25 edition

Brighton seeks contractors to restore historic gardens

Project Giving Back mark final Chelsea Flower Show gardens collection

RHS launches biodiversity campaign

EXCLUSIVE: Growers reveal which RHS Chelsea gardens they are supplying + full list

Groundbreaking ‘The End of Peat’ podcast shortlisted for Garden Media Guild award

ATVs and excavators to be tagged against theft

Book review: The Modern Professional Planting Designer

BALI urges Government to back £38bn landscaping sector ahead of Autumn Budget

Fisher Tomlin bestselling book launches

Horticulture Careers Showcases taking place this October in London

HortWeek FUTURE PLANTS SURVEY: which plants will be in most demand in the coming years?

Perennial’s Dig Deep fundraising lunch raises £36,500

Pay: two fifths of horticulturists getting below inflation rises

Bunny Guinness promotes the use of glyphosate in ‘sensible and informed’ way

Horticulture company results: QD, Fiskars, Alnwick, National Trust

Ground Control biodiversity habitat bank secures long-term legal protection

Winners and losers this horticulture week: imports, head gardeners and trees, peat

ANALYSIS

Horticulture contract awards roundup: 15 - 21 October 2025

Horticulture contract awards roundup: 8 - 14 October 2025

What dates are horticulture events on in 2026? UPDATED

Four Oaks

Horticulture contract awards roundup: 1 - 7 October 2025

Horticulture contract awards roundup: 24 - 30 September 2025

Companies House results analysis shows which horticulture sectors have prospered and which have not

table screenshots

Climate Change Resilience: Autumn may be cooler and drier than we are used to, or warmer and wetter, or both

Bistorta amplexicaulis

Sargent’s Solutions: Patios, damp-proof courses and insurance matters

Alan Sargent

HTA Conference 2025: IN PICTURES

HTA Conference delegates

Horticulture contract awards roundup: 17 - 23 September 2025

WATCH: Landscape industry Q&A with Mark Gregory, Wayne Grills, Phil Tremayne, Paul Greenyer, Gareth Wilson

Alan Sargent and panel

Alan Sargent’s ‘swan song’: AI, threats to the landscape sector and managing clients

Alan Sargent

Horticulture contract awards roundup: 10 - 16 September 2025

WATCH: Groundsfest 2025 -Tools of the Trade Panel talks landscape kit and how to avoid scams

Tools of the Trade panel discussion hosted by HortWeek at Groundsfest 2025

Landscape Logic: Checks and red flags for designers

Alan Sargent

Horticulture contract awards roundup: 3 - 9 September 2025

Groundsfest 2025: IN PICTURES

Groundsfest 2025

WATCH Groundsfest 2025 Panel: Integrated Weed Management - realities vs Government goals

Groundsfest Integrated Weed Management panel

Horticulture contract awards roundup: 27 August to 2 September 2025

Sargent’s Solutions: Examining the roles of specifiers and designers in landscaping projects

Alan Sargent

Horticulture contract awards roundup: 20 - 26 August 2025

SARGENT'S SOLUTIONS

Landscape Logic: Accelerating a project to meet the client’s wishes

Alan Sargent

Landscape Logic: Time-limited quotations for maintenance contractors

Alan Sargent

Resilient landscape business in changing times

Alan Sargent

Landscape Logic: Top ten tips for avoiding disputes in landscape projects

Alan Sargent

Landscape Logic: Roadside hedges, ditches and tree management

Alan Sargent

Making your landscape tools more productive

Alan Sargent

Promoting staff within a landscape business

Alan Sargent

COMMENT

Why 2025 has been a ‘hay’ year for specialist deck builders?

Karl Harrison

Parks have been let down by the Spending Review: we need a parks Tsar

Peter Fawcett

The landscape industry must lead the ESG charge

Jason Knights, Ground Control

Why the UK needs a horticultural strategy

Trewin Restorick

Biodiversity Net Gain: challenges and opportunities in the industry

Bee on gorse bush

Biodiversity Net Gain is working - so why put it at risk?

Oliver Lewis

LANDSCAPE PLANT LIBRARY

Water lilies

Escarboucle

Phlox

Rosa 'Pastell' - credit all pictures: Floramedia Database

Fragrant foliage

Elsholtzia stauntonii has slender spires of lilac or pale purple from August until the end of October - credit all images: Floramedia Database)

Pyracantha

Pyracantha Soleil D'Or

Carnivorous plants

Each Dionaea muscipula plant has six or more leaves, varying from green to red, ending in a hinged trap flushed green/pink or red inside - all images: Floramedia Database

Nerine

Nerine Mansellii is one of the older hybrids in genus - credit all images: Floramedia

Cotinus

Cotinus coggygria. European smoke bush produces bright-green leaves and 20cm-long flower plumes that eventually turn a smoky grey - credit all images: Floramedia

MACHINERY & KIT

Smarter irrigation solutions for landscapers and turf managers

Mona tank systems

Grass cutting: The advances making battery ride-on mowers a viable option

AS 920 ESherpa - credit: AS-Motor

Grass cutting: State-of-the-art robots giving better results than ever before

Automower 560 EPOS - credit: Husqvarna

Grass cutting: Remote-controlled machines for safer mowing on slopes

AS 1000 Ovis RC flail mower - credit: AS-Motor

The latest battery tools built to match up to petrol equivalents

Man using hedge trimmer HSA 100 in Stihl AP System - credit: STIHL

How cutting-edge technology is taking batteries to the next level

Kress commercial tools designed for 60V batteries that can charge in under eight minutes - credit: Kress