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ANALYSIS

Sally Drury

Ask Sally: What should employers do to make working at height safer for staff?

Most watched videos this year so far

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Guide to: Horticulture business costs and employment challenges

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How is the Commonwealth War Graves Commission building resilience for the next 100 years?

Fisher-Tomlin (left), CWGC horticulture manager Steve Arnold (centre) and horticulture supervisor Emmanuelle Courchel (right)

Head Gardener: Tough annuals for an easy-to-grow summer show + Jane Moore VIDEO

Annuals

Stop treating weeds as a cosmetic issue: The 25mm rule and proactive asset management

Weed control

How local government reorganisation will impact parks services

Green assets

Sargent’s Solutions: How to give a valuable guided garden tour

Alan Sargent

The landscape of local authority parks: Budgets, maintenance, and income

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Growing revenue in parks and gardens: challenges and opportunities WATCH NOW!

Parks and Gardens Summit

Parks and gardens faced ‘toughest year financially’ since the end of lockdown in 2025

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Kevin Line’s Plant Favourites: Primula elatior

Primula elatior

International Women’s Day: how close is horticulture to gender parity?

International Women's Day

Kew’s 30th Orchid Festival highlights the success of weather-resilient programming

RBG Kew’s orchid festival

Head Gardener: Bare-root plants tick all the boxes for winter planting + Jane Moore VIDEO

Newly planted bare-root hedge at Bath Priory

RBGE Regius Keeper Simon Milne highlights importance of plants

Simon Milne

LATEST NEWS

BBG

Birmingham Botanical Gardens’ Agave raises the roof

After 10 years of care and nurture, Birmingham Botanical Gardens’ Agave sisalana (sisal hemp) has produced a huge sword-shaped spike which has peeked through the roof of the Arid Glasshouse and is currently reaching over 3.68 metres tall.

RHS income rises, while membership and losses fall

Kew pop-up to showcase endangered plants

New international partnership unites global experts to protect important trees from escalating threats

Huge cemetery lottery grant set to remove and replace ash dieback trees

Parliamentarians visit Chelsea and hear about the future of horticulture

Angela Rippon and ‘Eric and Little Ern’ launch Eden Project Bring Me Sunshine Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026

Landmark park project off as costs rise

Matthew Biggs’ final Gardeners’ Question Time appearance airs during Mental Health Awareness Week

Planning: five garden centre applications

Chelsea garden relocates to Mayfield Park

Eric Morecambe's 100th celebrated by Eden Project

Allotments: Top designer calls on MP for action

The Newt’s Great Garden Show launches

Royal Parks appoints plant sourcing curator

Kew Palm House appeal set to launch as Victorian glasshouse rusts

Nature on the EDGE of extinction: Kew and ZSL scientists warn 21% of flowering plant evolutionary history is at risk

Artists and gardeners unite for The Matthew Biggs Garden at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre

Applications open for the RHS Master of Horticulture award

Winner and losers this horticulture week

Glyphosate debate raised as renewal date nears

UK HEAD GARDENERS LISTING

UK Head Gardeners Directory

Head Gardeners Directory 2026

HEAD GARDENER - WITH JANE MOORE

Head Gardener: Making the most of the garden in winter + Jane Moore VIDEO

Drifts of hellebores

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

Trees for borders

Head Gardener: Managing a meadow to build up future diversity

Meadow at The Priory

Head Gardener: Herbaceous beauties for super-dry conditions

Nepeta and Sedum

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

SARGENT'S SOLUTIONS

Sargent’s Solutions: Building a portfolio that sells your landscape garden design practice

Alan Sargent

Sargent’s Solutions: Artificial intelligence and domestic landscape contractors

Alan Sargent

Sargent’s Solutions: Time-limited quotations for landscape maintenance contractors

Alan Sargent

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

Sargent’s Solutions: Safely changing the name of your landscape businesses

Alan Sargent

Resilient landscape business in changing times

Alan Sargent

Promoting staff within a landscape business

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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