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News & Analysis
The latest news for horticulture professionals, including garden retail, ornamentals nurseries, field vegetable and salad crops, sport and amenity turf, landscape contracting and design, grounds maintenance, parks & gardens and arboriculture.
Latest News
- New Contract - Grounds maintenance
- New Contract - Grounds management
- New Contract - Grounds maintenance
- New contract - Grounds upkeep serivices
- New Contract - Grounds maintenance
- Ransomes Spider takes the strain off staff
- Staycations trend could signal boom for garden retail Easter sales says Solus
- Planners give boost to purple reign of Long Barn
- Gardening Scotland secures Hopetoun Gardens sponsorship deal
- Garden Centre Group launches apprenticeship scheme with Pershore College
- Broxtowe County Park benefits from £170k green link to city centre
- Girl Guides help wheelchair users and win woodland prize
- South East England officially in drought
- Cold snap "puts the mockers" on mild-weather reports
- IoG opens consultation on use of artificial turf
- Biological controls show promise against three key blackcurrant pests
- Fruit container firm adopts recycling for a greener ethos
- Pear conference set to press production investment to exploit market potential
Columnists & Comment
Seabrook On ... Prepare yourself for fierce competition
17 February 2012While the UK garden trade remains remarkably buoyant and optimistic, it is of concern that too many potential members of staff remain complacent and unaware of the fierce international competition that is building in every area.
Reader Panel - What do you think of the Green Places Fund?
17 February 2012Green-space leaders met last week to discuss the possibility of launching a green places fund, a single pot to support green spaces. A co-ordinated approach, it is hoped, would share effort and resources around a single focus point, which would make ...
Securing contract best value
17 February 2012At last September's IoG Saltex exhibition a Horticulture Week panel debate on coping with today's tough maintenance budgets highlighted worrying examples of procurement practice, from frequent inclusion of long-obsolete machinery in tender documentat...
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Arboriculture RSS
- Girl Guides help wheelchair users and win woodland prize
- South East England officially in drought
- Cold snap "puts the mockers" on mild-weather reports
- Barcham conference to hear tree junction study
- Berkshire tree replanting begins
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Careers and workplace RSS
- RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show launches student award
- Board agrees pay increase
- English Gardening School course aims to improve flower show designs
- Solar energy project at Oatridge College aims to slash energy demand
- Trust students carry on historic horticultural traditions
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Contracts RSS
- Garden Thyme buys blower
- Mower dealership agreed
- New Contracts - Grounds Maintenance
- New Contracts - Composting Services
- New Contracts - Grounds Maintenance
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Edibles RSS
- South East England officially in drought
- Biological controls show promise against three key blackcurrant pests
- Fruit container firm adopts recycling for a greener ethos
- Pear conference set to press production investment to exploit market potential
- Discounting seals trend for fall in food price inflation
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Landscape RSS
- New Contract - Grounds maintenance
- New Contract - Grounds management
- New Contract - Grounds maintenance
- New contract - Grounds upkeep serivices
- New Contract - Grounds maintenance
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Ornamentals RSS
- Planners give boost to purple reign of Long Barn
- South East England officially in drought
- Exhibitors prepare for British Plant Fair
- Stockbridge's Graham Ward received associateship
- New sales concept designed to boost sales
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Parks and gardens RSS
- New Contract - Grounds management
- New Contract - Grounds maintenance
- Ransomes Spider takes the strain off staff
- Broxtowe County Park benefits from £170k green link to city centre
- Girl Guides help wheelchair users and win woodland prize
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Pests and diseases RSS
- EC consults on alien species
- Pesticide treatment clarified for fuchsia gall mite control
- Pest & Disease Management - Fusarium patch - A threat to turf when conditions are cold and wet
- Pesticide guide updated
- Phytophthora austrocedrae hits English junipers for the first time
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Retail RSS
- Staycations trend could signal boom for garden retail Easter sales says Solus
- Planners give boost to purple reign of Long Barn
- Gardening Scotland secures Hopetoun Gardens sponsorship deal
- Garden Centre Group launches apprenticeship scheme with Pershore College
- South East England officially in drought
Additional Information
Latest jobs Jobs web feed
- Key Account Manager Horticruitment OTE £28K+, UK
- Trainee Gardener Chelsea Physic Garden £13,660, London
- Genuine Horticulturalist Private Estate Competitive. DOE., Oxfordshire
- Garden Centre Sundries Supervisor Horticruitment £18K, Derby
- Garden Centre Manager Horticruitment £33K, Berkshire
Latest Tenders
Contract for the Supply of Horticultural Machinery & Equipment
Sunderland City Council
CONTRACTS FOR THE SUPPLY OF PARKS
MAINTENANCE AND TREES MAINTENANCE
Wandsworth Borough Council
In This Issue
NEWS: RHS hears call for outsider role in judging
RETAIL PLANT FOCUS: Gladiolus
INTERVIEW: Stowe School head gardener, Barry Smith
MARKET REPORT: Catalogues and point of sale
GROWER PROFILE: BLSA's John Allan
