Ornamentals Production

ORNAMENTALS PRODUCTION

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ANALYSIS

New Plants Radar: Rochfords International Rose Trials

HortWeek review: 2025 new plants award winners

HortWeek obituaries of the year 2025

Top 20 garden centre plants: EPOS data December 2025

Top 50 garden centre plants sold in 2025 by EPOS data

Quiz of the Week: 19/12/25

Sector Review 2025: Ornamentals

LIVE MAP: horticulture business mergers, closures and sales

Horticulture business mergers and closures map

Quiz of the Week: 12/12/25

Has the bubble burst on peat-free in local authorities? EXCLUSIVE HortWeek report reveals UK’s peat-free status

Quiz of the Week: 05/12/25

Essential steps for garden retailers, growers and landscapers to avoid damage and delays when importing plants

Whatever happened to… Veitch Nurseries

New Plants Radar: Top picks from Europe’s horticultural trade events in 2025

Quiz of the Week: 28/11/25

Show Preview: IPM Essen 2026

Top 15 garden centre plants: EPOS data November 2025

What can we expect from the Autumn Budget?

Six questions with Jamie Butterworth

Peat: 14 HortWeek-exclusive updates

Quiz of the Week: 21/11/25

LATEST ORNAMENTALS NEWS

Shrinkflation hits daffodils: check your bunch size

Daffodil bunch sizes are shrinking, a HortWeek review of stems in supermarkets has found.

What defined horticulture in 2025?

Planning: Coblands, Simpson's

16 new Companies House results: Cooling's, Hozelock, Nicholson's, NLP

HortWeek people of the year 2025: part one and part two

Horticulturists in the New Year Honours list 2026

Best of this season's horticulture trends

HortWeek movers of the year

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

Plant Focus: Agapanthus

Plant Focus: Jasminum

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

NEW PLANTS RADAR WITH MICHAEL PERRY

New Plants Radar: Seven standout edible varieties from Prudac

New Plants Radar: Seven summer annuals from Selecta one

New Plants Radar: Minimum effort, maximum blooms

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

GARDEN CENTRE DIRECTORY

UK garden centres — every garden centre outlet listed

OPINION

What next for the horticulture industry moving into 2026?

Historic episode illustrates need for import controls on plants

Ongoing challenges for smaller nurseries

Little comes from increased volume for the horticulture trade

Putting horticulture at the heart of Scotland’s future

Confused about peat data

Farmers and nurseries face increasing tax pressures to produce

RHS should shout about peat-free growers

What plant trade shows need to do to keep numbers up

Challenging times for the wholesale trade

EAMU UPDATES

EAMU expiry alert: February 2026

EAMU roundup: November 2025

EAMU roundup: October 2025

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

PEST & DISEASE FACTSHEETS

Protection against winter moths for fruit, forestry and ornamentals

Sciard and shore flies: Avoiding damage caused by sciarid and shore flies

Bradysia - credit: AfroBrazilian CC BY-SA 3.0

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

Gardener

Webrecruit - English Heritage, Worcestershire
Gardens Manager

Uppingham School, Uppingham, Rutland
Skilled Landscaper

Fresh Horticultural Careers, East Hampshire
Landscape Contracts Manager

Fresh Horticultural Careers, South West London
Hard Landscaper

Fresh Horticultural Careers, Surrey/Guilford
Gardener

Conkwell Grange, Conkwell Grange, Conkwell, Bath
Skilled Gardener

Private Estate Near Marlborough, Estate near Marlborough in Wiltshire.
Technical Sales Representative UK & Ireland

Selecta-One UK Ltd, United Kingdom
Hard Landscaper

Fresh Horticultural Careers, South West London
Landscape Construction Foreperson

Fresh Horticultural Careers, London and surrounding areas