Ornamentals Production

ORNAMENTALS PRODUCTION

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ANALYSIS

Top 50 garden centre plants: EPOS data October 2025

The best-selling plants by turnover in October, according to latest electronic point-of-sale (EPOS) data from garden centres.

Horticulture contract awards roundup: 15 - 21 October 2025

What dates are horticulture events on in 2026? UPDATED

Highlights from GrootGroenPlus: Peat-free growing, pesticide use and staffing issues

Sally Drury’s report and top picks from the South West Growers Show

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

Whatever happened to… Coblands

Plant Heroes: A flying start for Petunia Priscilla despite a low-key entrance

New Plants Radar: Seven summer annuals from Selecta one

Top 55 garden centre plants: EPOS data September 2025

HTA Conference 2025: IN PICTURES

GEORGE EUSTICE INTERVIEW: Longest-serving Defra minister calls farmer tax and changed peat deadlines ‘mistakes’

Award winning plants 2024/2025

Evergreen Wholesale Nursery: IN PICTURES

B&Q's Springfields Nursery: IN PICTURES

12 trends from GLEE and beyond 2025

New Plants Radar: Minimum effort, maximum blooms

Horticulture contract awards roundup: 3 - 9 September 2025

Newey Tree Park - IN PICTURES

VIDEO: Interview with Roger and Alison Seabrook at the Rochford Rose Trials 2025

Roger and Alison Seabrook with Matthew Appleby

Sally Drury's nursery kit highlights from Four Oaks Trade Show 2025

Brinkman Horticultural Services' Mulcher CA1 TR5C

LATEST ORNAMENTALS NEWS

HTA publishes its own peat use data

Professional nurseries use has fallen by 5%, according to new figures.

Peat emissions measurement "over-estimated'' and to be made more accurate

Halloween retail opportunities at frightening levels

Winners and losers this horticulture week

Most read this horticulture week: peat, RHS, imports, pests, garden centre closing

Defra figures: Plant trade imports rise and exports fall

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

Christmas trees: If you haven’t secured your supply, you’re too late

Plant importing ‘horrendous’ and ‘worst it’s ever been’, UK importers and European exporters tell HortWeek

HTA fields questions from Italian growers on exporting to UK

Biggest pest and disease problems 2022-24 revealed

RHS launches biodiversity campaign

RHS State of Gardening Report report discovers there are 25 million British gardens

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

RHS plan peat free retail but criticise Government ban delay again

RHS to launch first ‘state of gardening’ report

Plant import disruption continues

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

Seasonal worker scheme rule change will allow workers to re-enter the country sooner

Leading grower conference tickets go on sale

Dutch plant exports to UK rise again

HortWeek Special Report

HortWeek releases definitive exclusive peat report

HortWeek asks and answers the burning questions about the future of peat in a new comprehensive deep dive research document.

EXCLUSIVE

Top 100 Ornamental Nurseries: Changes among leading growers over the past 10 years

PLANT LIBRARY

Christmas trees

Water lilies

Anemone

Phlox

Rosa 'Pastell' - credit all pictures: Floramedia Database

Fruit

Fragrant foliage

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

Vegetable plants

Phaseolus vulgaris Hestia - runner beans are easy to grow, make a standout feature in vegetable gardens and a few varieties can even be grown in containers - credit all images: Floramedia

Pyracantha

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

NEW PLANTS RADAR WITH MICHAEL PERRY

New Plants Radar: Ball Colegrave trials

New Plants Radar: Highlights from FlowerTrials

New Plants Radar: Hot new shrubs for home gardeners

Hot new shrubs for home gardeners - credit: Sapho/Hortival Diffusion

New Plants Radar: Waterdrinker Aalsmeer

New Plants Radar: Unusual plants at IPM Essen

New Plants Radar: Plantarium Groen-Direkt 2025 selection

GARDEN CENTRE DIRECTORY

UK garden centres — every garden centre outlet listed

OPINION

RHS should shout about peat-free growers

What plant trade shows need to do to keep numbers up

Challenging times for the wholesale trade

Championing growers will be good news for everyone

Horticulture trade shows - where are they going?

Secret Gardener #36: Bringing confusing peat debate together

Beyond the bog: 5 reasons a UK peat ban is a win for everyone

Local Government Reorganisation: why horticulture must lean in now

Why push peat-free but not plant breeders’ rights?

Four Oaks: A view from a garden centre down south

EAMU UPDATES

EAMU expiry alert: January 2025

EAMU expiry alert: December 2025

EAMU roundup: September 2025

Horseradish - credit: Flickr/Nick Saltmarsh (CC by 2.0)

EAMU roundup: August 2025

Protected tomato production - credit: Flickr/ Local Food Initiative (CC by 2.0)

EAMU expiry alert: November 2025

EAMU Expiry Alert: October 2025

EAMU roundup: July 2025

Pumpkins - credit: Flickr/ScotGovRural Matt Cartney (CC by 2.0)

EAMU Expiry Alert: September 2025

PEST & DISEASE FACTSHEETS

Blights: correct identification and treatment options

Downy mildew: protecting plants against downy mildew attacks

Wilt: How growers can recognise pathogens and protect ornamental plants

Rust: Protecting plant crops against rust infections

Spider mites: how ornamentals growers can deal with spider mite threat

Scale insects: Protecting ornamental crops against sap-feeding scale insects

Moles: Options to control root and surface damage caused by tunnelling moles

Leaf and stem nematodes: how cultural controls and nursery hygiene are crucial to combat damage to plants

Nematode damage can be confused with downy mildew - credit: Dove Associates

Botrytis: How to avoid Botrytis infections

Botrytis produces patchy leaf tips on plants such as begonia - credit: Dove Associates

How using green manure can boost growers’ crops

Slugs and snails: natural and chemical control options available to growers

Pest and beneficial beetles: those that provide natural pest control and those that are notifiable

Alder leaf beetle - credit: Dove Associates

Bacterial and fungal cankers: how growers can identify, prevent and treat them

Powdery mildew: solutions for ornamental growers

Whitefly: how ornamentals growers can prevent whitefly problems

Whiteflies live on undersides of leaves - credit: Dove Associates

Tarsonemid and eriophyid mites: a strong hand lens may help growers identify these plant pests

Phytophthora root rots: infections may cause wilting, stunting, root damage and root dieback

Phytophthora symptoms on leaves - credit: Joseph O’Brien, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org

Soil-dwelling larvae: protecting lawns, sports turf and plants from chafer beetle and crane fly larvae

Mealybugs: how to safeguard vulnerable ornamental crops

Citrus mealybug - credit: Chazz Hesselein, Alabama Cooperative Extension System/Bugwood.org

Caterpillars: control options for ornamental crops