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ANALYSIS

Report launch

12 things you need to know from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show/State of Gardening report 2026 launch

Trees and head gardeners: 8 reports from The Newt conference

Head Gardner’s Conference

Head Gardener: Brilliant trees for planting in borders + Jane Moore VIDEO

Trees for borders

14 of the latest emerging trends from across the horticulture industry

Christmas light trails

10 new horticulture planning permissions: plant nursery housing plan, garden centre extensions, new parks

planning

HortWeek visits the Carbon Garden at Kew: IN PICTURES

Richard Wilford

Horticulture contract awards roundup: 2 - 15 July 2025

Head Gardener: Managing a meadow to build up future diversity

Meadow at The Priory

VIDEO: Plant Heritage celebrates unfashionable Aucuba at Hampton Court show

Matthew Pottage at Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2025

VIDEO: Creating healthy streets at RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival

Rachael Forsyth, Helen Currie and Molly Lewis Klemova-White

VIDEO: Hampton Court best-in-show winner The Subaru Cocoon

RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025: GALLERY

The Alan Partridge Sound Bath Garden

Trachycarpus fortunei, fighting drought conditions

before and after

Health and safety product highlights from London event

Health and safety products

Head Gardener: Herbaceous beauties for super-dry conditions

Nepeta and Sedum

Ask Sally: What are the key factors when choosing a trimmer?

Sally Drury

LATEST NEWS

Piccadilly Gardens

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

Manchester City Council is working with LDA Design on early interventions to make Piccadilly Gardens greener.

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

RHS launches biodiversity campaign

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

Cate Blanchett backs Kew Gardens call for £30m help

RHS to launch first ‘state of gardening’ report

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

Most read horticulture stories this week: glyphosate, Private equity, peat-free

Winners and losers this horticulture week: Future plants, ash dieback, pay rises

Leading nurseryman takes over Seabrook Colegrave Foundation lead role

National Trust job restructure aims for more centralised garden structure

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

Council plans to convert allotments into cemetery + Planning Bill latest

Hottest summer on record altering autumn colour, Kew experts warn

Ukrainian park recognised for quality management

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

Most read horticulture stories this week: 'Ridiculous' delays, pay rises, AI

RHS makes two new leadership appointments

Cell grown trees tipped for better establishment

UK HEAD GARDENERS LISTING

Woman hoeing a flower bed

UK Head Gardeners Listing

HEAD GARDENER - WITH JANE MOORE

Head Gardener: Stimulate creativity by attending garden shows

Linked water tanks in Flood Resilient garden

Head Gardener: Planting trees for the future in a small garden

Bath Priory cedar of Lebanon

Head gardener: A workable alternative to felling healthy trees

Arborist working up a tree at Winkworth Arboretum - credit all images: Kirstin Alexander

Head gardener: Using dwarf conifers in today’s modern gardens

Conifers

Head gardener: Ideal organic mulches to deliver an autumn boost

Jane Moore turning the compost

Head gardener: Embracing shade and creating inviting outdoor spaces

Adding a bench makes area inviting for visitors as well as gardeners - credit all images: Jane Moore

SARGENT'S SOLUTIONS

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

Alan Sargent

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

Alan Sargent

Resilient landscape business in changing times

Alan Sargent

Making your landscape tools more productive

Alan Sargent

Promoting staff within a landscape business

Alan Sargent

Landscape clients' demands for penalty clause

Alan Sargent

Managing the costs of a landscape project monitor

Alan Sargent

How to make sure living walls thrive

Alan Sargent

KIT AND MACHINERY

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

Smarter tools for preparing fine turf and lawns for winter

Self-propelled Mataway dethatcher - credit: Bobcat

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