HortWeek Intelligence

This month in HortWeek history: 23 April 2022

Horticulture tender awards roundup: 5 -11 April 2023

Could play streets pave the way for permanent active streets?

Double H's The Horti House aims to transform houseplant wholesale

Legal issues this horticulture week

Harnessing the power of social media with ‘The Beardy Gardener’

Horticulture tender awards roundup: 22 March - 4 April 2023

Peat: what's the latest?

Seven policy updates relevant to horticulture

How important is it that Easter garden centre sales begin to take off after poor March?

Head Gardener: Creating functional and attractive garden paths

Manor House steps built using pennant stone to match other areas of the property and designed to be shallow and long for easy access

Plants People: John Hedger describes his horticultural journey

John Hedger, commercial manager at Newey

This month in HortWeek history: April 2019

Horticulture Salary survey: analysis update for 2023

How will Camden’s Highline benefit the local community?

Camden Highline, a skyline garden project set to transform 1.2km stretch of disused railway

Opportunity knocks for the next generation of horticulturists

Christopher Weddell: English Heritage has a large training programme to support all grades of staff - credit: English Heritage

Why overtrading should be avoided

When is employee ownership viable for horticulture businesses?

What stands in the way of biodiversity net gain delivery?

Biodiversity Net Gain panel session - credit: HW

Top 10 horticulture plans of the week

INDUSTRY RANKINGS

Steady year for the top 20 Glasshouse Salad Growers 2024

Top 5 horticulture wholesalers

Top 10 turf growers 2024

Top 25 Fruit Producers ranking sees growers facing increased production costs

Top 25 UK Arboriculture Businesses 2023 shows firms thriving during a tricky period

Top 200 Garden Centres 2023 reflects post Covid retail landscape

Top 100 ornamentals growers show sector resilience

Top 10 landscape stone paving companies

HORTWEEK PODCAST

Peonies in the spotlight with Alec White

Award-winning landscape projects, greening the grey, and the ongoing skills shortage with Maylim

Rose market trends, supply, demand and sustainability with Whartons Roses

ChatGPT talks horticulture, biostimulants and fertilisers with ICL

Burpee Seeds looks to the future

Matthew Appleby, Andrew Mellowes, Simon Crawford

Arboriculture high climber Jo Hedger of Arbor Venture on her world-beating career

Psychology and sensory garden design with garden designer Camellia Taylor

Plants, peat, imports, trends and garden retail best practice with HTA president Alan Down

How to meet the garden retail challenges of the future, with Garden Centre Association CEO Peter Burks

Making a career in landscape maintenance - with Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park apprentices Mark Skinner and Adam James

Wembley Park - where champion trees meet champion footballers - with masterplanning head Julian Tollast and estate landscape manager David Hughes

Kew's Joe Richomme on career changing and the importance of botanical names

The benefits of LED lighting for growers with Signify's Nathanael Dannenberg

The joy of gardens, gardening and garden writing with Barbara Segall

Horticulture Week Podcast: harnessing biodiversity at Trentham Gardens with Carol Adams

Horticulture Week Podcast: biosecurity in the spotlight with Provender Nurseries' Richard McKenna

Horticulture Week Podcast: natural pest control with Julian Ives of Dragonfli

Horticulture Week Podcast: laugh along with the stars of the latest Perennial 'naked' calendar as they reveal all!

Horticulture Week Podcast: Nick Hamilton talks peat-free, his father Geoff's legacy and the future of Barnsdale

Horticulture Week Podcast: new broad spectrum insecticide Mainspring with ICL's Sam Rivers and Syngenta's Sean Loakes

Salix cuttings (L to R): acutifolia ‘Blue Streak’, alba var. vitellina, daphnoides, alba var. vitellina ‘Yelverton’, irrorata and rubra ‘Eugenei’ - credit all images: Bob Askew

PLANT LIBRARY

Salix - these wonderful willows will add colour and beauty to the garden

Spider mite control

Returning to work from extended leave

Woman returning to work with a box of her things greeted by colleagues

How to future-proof your career against the unknown

Girl handing over CV to future proof career

How to make pay go further in the cost-of-living crisis

How to position your CV for a career change

Act now to get ahead of Botrytis

Botrytis on cyclamen with ghost spotting

"We work as one team, we are innovators and we are proud"

5 creative CV tips to help you land your next job

Four Oaks success: 50 years and counting

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ORNAMENTALS

Frank P Matthews plants trees at National Trust Craflwyn Hall

Post-Brexit data shows plant imports rising and exports falling

Seven latest horticulture developments

Free flower bulbs for schools

B&Q launches 40 varieties and promotes 15 'digital' lavender-coloured plants

B&Q promotions including lavender, Geranium and Petunia

Jill Biden tulip launched

Deborah James rose raises £50,000

The Dame Deborah James Rose - credit: The Harkness Rose Company

Government promises 'plants will now move within the same plant passport regime as applies throughout the UK'

Most read horticulture stories this week

Winners and losers this horticulture week

Virtual flower show moves to YouTube

Dibley's Virtual Flower Show 2023 promotion

Defra introduces draft Target Operating Model

Plants for Perennial launched into garden centres

Kerley to launch new varieties

New plants for RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023

Peter Beales roses launching at Chelsea Flower show

Seasonal plant fairs to take place at Arundel Castle

GARDEN RETAIL

DIY boost in March, finds Barclays

A repeatable scoring system for assessing Smartphone applications ability to identify herbaceous plants

Debate rages after TV gardener suggests passing on trade discount to customers UPDATED

'Normalised' trading conditions lead to slight turnover fall

Early Easter sales continue April momentum UPDATED

Brookfields garden centre bought

Hayloft buyer James Oakey to run London Marathon on 23 April

HortWeek Survey: What proportion of your garden sales and plant production is peat-free?

Miracle Gro Organic Choice peat-free compost bags

Harvest London vertical farm secures retail contract

Old Railway Line Garden Centre donates plants to local primary schools

Children with plants and compost from Archdeacon Griffiths School

£600,000 fine for gardening company after employee died while loading lorry

B&Q goes bagged peat-free while Tesco sets out peat-free plants plans

The story behind the Brain Tumour Research fundraiser Rose For Hope

Garden centres 'ready and desperate' for a good Easter, but situation not critical yet

Hosepipe ban fears fade

Be diligent with new garden retail products

FRESH PRODUCE

Pershore College launches new horticultural degree

British Apples and Pears sees hike in cost of apple production in the UK

Wilkin & Son celebrates strawberry growing success

Strawberries growing from above and below in glasshouse

Nationwide campaign in memory of 22-year-old farmer who took his own life

NIAB fruit research summarised in annual review

Modern slavery arrests in West Sussex

Defra produces plan after water quality criticism

Lower Lliw Reservoir, Felindre, Swansea - credit: Flickr/ Nigel Swales (CC by SA 2.0)

Fruit and veg imports rise and exports decline since Brexit

£900k Business Sustainability Challenge opens for food and drink sector

Growing Kent & Medway poster for the Business Sustainability Challenge

How can employers keep vulnerable workers safe?

Macpac celebrates 50th anniversary

Crop-protection funding dilemma

New community-owned farm seeks more community investors

What I would have told the Lords' horticultural enquiry so we can feed the nation

AHDB cuts costs after horticulture vote to leave

EAMU roundup: March 2023

LANDSCAPE

BALI Chalk Fund launch Student of The Year 2023

Worthing's Local Plan seeks to enhance nature

Joe Perkins highlights importance of mangrove forests at the Shenzhen Flower Show 2023

The Shenzhen City Garden - Community of Life designed by Joe Perkins for The Shenzhen Flower Show 2023

Fully female garden design company to launch at Gardeners’ World Live

University Hospital Lewisham Adam Frost well-being garden completes

University Hospital Lewisham Wellbeing Garden

Cowslips flourish on the M1 northbound

Nurture Landscapes Group adds RoSPA gold medal award to its collection

RHS and Eastern Eye Garden of Unity at 2023 RHS Chelsea Flower Show

RHS and Eastern Eye Garden of Unity, designed by Manoj Malde, Feature Garden

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Arundel Castle’s 2023 Tulip Festival to include over 100,000 blooms

P1 Contractors and Johnsons of Whixley team up to enhance the grounds of a new residential development in Scotland

tree plantation - image: Johnsons of Whixley

Westminster Church Street regeneration scheme awarded planning permission

‘Plot to plate’ takes centre stage at BBC Gardeners’ World Spring Fair

People’s Plan for Nature calls for nature to be included in all levels of decision-making

The final weekend of the People’s Assembly for Nature took place in February 2023 © Involve / Jemima Stubbs

Garden designer dies aged 46

Wildflower meadow to return to Stonehenge and 100 other heritage sites

PARKS & GARDENS

Sculpture trail to return to Standen House

Bulbs for Lives field at Horsham Park marks those who took their own lives in 2021

UK park put forward for Unesco world heritage status

National Memorial Arboretum improves accessibility with new Changing Places Toilet

Leonardslee Gardens celebrates coronation of King Charles III

National Garden Scheme announces over £260k in funding for 86 community garden projects

Kew announces new well-being sessions for 2023

2023 RHS Botanical Art & Photography Show at Saatchi Gallery

Green makeover set for Westgate Street

Sustainable new water feature launched at Highdown Gardens

Eden Project wins gold at spring flower show

Eden Project apprentices create winning Coronation community garden for Cornwall Garden Society Spring Flower Show

Six gardens competing for Historic Houses award announced

Kew International Medal awarded to Professor Suzanne Simard

Prof Alexandre Antonelli (RBG Kew Director of Science), Prof Suzanne Simard, Sarah Flannigan (RGB Kew Trustee and Chair of selection panel)

Campaign groups fight to save trees at former zoo

The Parks Trust launches new route for cyclists

APRIL PARKS AND GARDENS MAINTENANCE TASKS

ARBORICULTURE

Tidgrove partners with Woodland Trust as ‘platinum wood’ honours Queen

Tidgrove Warren - Credit: Mark Franklin / Woodland Trust

Grant to boost domestic tree production re-opens

Queen's canopy planting ends at three million trees

Environmental Audit Committee hear of food 'perfect storm' and barriers to more tree planting

Forestry Commission Chair Sir William Worsley and Trudy Harrison MP

More woodland promised by Defra

Expansion of The Deer Park sees 15,000 trees planted

Horticulture tender awards roundup: 8 - 21 March 2023

Forestry and Land Scotland plans 'agile' response to challenges ahead

Tree a Week: Magnolia ‘Wada’s Memory’ AGM

Wada’s Memory has fabulously floppy flowers

Majestic delivers two massive trees

Armada Way injunction has been upheld

Credit: STRAW (Save the TRees of Armada Way)

Defra's Coffey and Harrison to be quizzed by MPs

Giant Redwood planted in memory of Her Late Majesty The Queen

Pupils from Park Primary School with Caroline Haines, Chair of the City Corporation’s West Ham Park Committee

Lords to hear horticulture labour issues

Land-based college ‘outstanding,’ finds Ofsted

Burnham Beeches wood ants star in Sir David Attenborough’s new series

Wood ants - Credit: City of London Corporation

TURF

APRIL TURFCARE TASKS

Syngenta launches new herbicide

Ask Sally: on lawn establishment

Which jobs are new petrol and diesel mowers built to handle?

Hydro 80 MKHPF offers comfort and power for mowing across any terrain - credit: Etesia

Latest models confirm why battery power is the future for mowing

Ask Sally: on first aid and health and safety

HortWeek survey: What are your biggest plant pest and disease threats?

Lawn Association partners with London College of Garden Design

Women in Horticulture UK: what is it and what does it hope to achieve? UPDATED

Ask Sally: on pedestrian scissor blade mowers

Ask Sally: on embankment mowing NEW SERIES

MARCH TURFCARE TASKS

Head Gardener, Benarth Hall

Benarth Hall, Benarth Hall, Conwy, North Wales,
Green Spaces Service Manager

Bridgend County Borough Council, Bridgend
Grounds Operative

University of West England, Frenchay Campus
Head Gardener, Batsford Park

Batsford Park, Batsford Park. North Cotswolds, just outside Moreton-in-Marsh
Arboriculture & Conservation Officer

Hyndburn Borough Council, Hyndburn
Account Director

Haymarket Media Group, Twickenham, London (hybrid)
Senior Gardener

Belcombe Court, Bath
Skilled Gardener (4 days a week)

Viken Family Office, Holland Park
HOUSE FLORIST

Daylesford Estate, Gloucestershire
Assistant Gardener

Woodbridge Town Council, Woodbridge

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HORTWEEK PODCAST

PLANT LIBRARY

Salix - these wonderful willows will add colour and beauty to the garden

Spider mite control

Returning to work from extended leave

How to future-proof your career against the unknown

How to make pay go further in the cost-of-living crisis

How to position your CV for a career change

Act now to get ahead of Botrytis

"We work as one team, we are innovators and we are proud"

5 creative CV tips to help you land your next job

Four Oaks success: 50 years and counting

TENDERS TRACKER:
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Head Gardener, Benarth Hall

Green Spaces Service Manager

Grounds Operative

Head Gardener, Batsford Park

Arboriculture & Conservation Officer

Account Director

Senior Gardener

Skilled Gardener (4 days a week)

HOUSE FLORIST

Assistant Gardener

Spider mite control

Returning to work from extended leave

How to future-proof your career against the unknown

How to make pay go further in the cost-of-living crisis

How to position your CV for a career change

Act now to get ahead of Botrytis

"We work as one team, we are innovators and we are proud"

5 creative CV tips to help you land your next job

Four Oaks success: 50 years and counting

TENDERS TRACKER: The latest public sector tenders

TENDERS TRACKER:
The latest
public sector
tenders