A trial at Oxford Botanic Garden using electrical apparatus provided successful for weed control without leaving harmful residue. Engineering consultant Roger Balls and electrical engineer Dr Mike Diprose demonstrated success in initial trials on th...

Halloween means high demand to buy pumpkins. One of the largest growers in the UK is David Bowman, with a 200ha farm growing three million pumpkins especially for this time of the year. Over 100 staff lift the massive crop into the warehouse to ripen...

Next, the fashion retailer is going into gardening. The retail chain has just announces details of its first garden centre, the Next Home & Garden store in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex.This is part of plans to operate larger stores selling a wide...

The closed world of judging by Royal Horticultural Society is up for review and not before time some would say. To all those designers that have toiled away at the recent Chelsea Flower Show may well wonder why they got the medal they did, not matter...

In the UK we have experienced two very severe winters with many gardeners experiencing at least one loss of a plant and some many from newly planted to established plants. Nursery growers suffered significant losses of stock and with tight margins i...

The original maze at Cliveden has been lost, but The National Trust has recreated the original one commissioned by Lord Astor. It took over two years to reconstruct and last winter over 1,000 2 metre high Yew trees were planted and the maze is now op...

Fargro launched two new biopesticide products at Wellesbourne Centre. A granular bioinsecticide - Met52 from Novozymes contains the natural Metarhizium fungi and is for Vine Weevil control. for protected and outdoor soft fruit and ornamentals, contai...

There is a first time for everything and now gardeners will be able to purchase bees either by mail order or from garden centres. Dragonfli and Wildlife World will be marketing live bumblebee hives for gardeners and garden centres.Gardeners can pu...

Artifical turf sales are on the increase as garden owners seek a lawn that looks good all year round and requires little maintenance. Even the Royal Horticultural Society's main garden at Wisley in Surrey is using artifical turf as well as as Kew Gar...

Mower manufacturer Dennis have brought the Macclesfield based turf maintenance machinery company Sisis. Sisis manufacture aerators, scarifiers and other lawn equipoment made mainly for the amenity sector and can be found around the coutry in many gol...

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'Christmas Rose' or Helleborus niger is an ideal plant for dappled shade and flowers from November through to March. There is always a plant flowering at some time of the year and those that offer up their blooms during the short, cold days of winte...

Brassica grower Geoff Philpott knows a thing or two about the weather, he is a keen amateur weather watcher. Apparently we are now in a new 22 year sun cycle, which started 2 years ago and this cycle means much colder winters. Geoff grows over 120ha...

It is the end of an era as Britians largest chrysanthemum grower, Donaldsons, closes down . The company supplied Sainsbury's with 16 million stems each year. Over the past four years 8ha of chrysanthemums have been lost in West Sussex alone, the hea...

Monty Don makes sensational return to Gardeners' World as Toby Buckland and Alys Fowler are dropped Viewing numbers have fallen again for this programme, which is really aimed at amateurs, but loved by many. Geoffrey Hamilton was the nation's favour...

The Forestry Commission scientists have identified the pathogen Phytophthora lateralis for the first time in Britain on a Lawson's cypress tree at Balloch Castle Country Park, on the banks of Loch Lomond. They are now testing samples from the oth...