RSS Feed

ARBORICULTURE

Arboriculture, tree surgery and forestry, including contracting, local authority tree officers, and consultancy. Looking for tree surgeon jobs or forestry jobs? Search horticulturejobs.co.uk.

  • To receive a weekly roundup of the latest arboriculture sector content, sign up for the ARBORICULTURE NEWS bulletin here.

EXCLUSIVE

Top 25 Arboriculture businesses logo

Acquisitions shuffle the 2024 Top 25 Arboriculture Businesses ranking

The seventh annual HortWeek Top Arboriculture Businesses listing uses arboriculture-specific turnover figures from each company’s latest financial year.

LATEST NEWS

Tidgrove Warren - Credit: Mark Franklin / Woodland Trust

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

A former farm with royal connections has been unveiled as the latest 70-acre tribute to the life of the late Queen Elizabeth II.

Grant to boost domestic tree production re-opens

Winners and losers this horticulture week

Queen's canopy planting ends at three million trees

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

More woodland promised by Defra

Expansion of The Deer Park sees 15,000 trees planted

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

Majestic delivers two massive trees

Armada Way injunction has been upheld

Defra's Coffey and Harrison to be quizzed by MPs

Giant Redwood planted in memory of Her Late Majesty The Queen

Lords to hear horticulture labour issues

Land-based college ‘outstanding,’ finds Ofsted

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

New Covid-19 'Trees of Life' glade opens

Ashridge Trees' survey reveals Britain's gardening attitudes and favourite plants

Red diesel exemption reinstated for arborists

Sector leaders to present evidence to parliamentary horticulture enquiry

Forestry funds open as campaigners demand UK nature action

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

ANALYSIS

Horticulture tender awards roundup: 5 -11 April 2023

Horticulture tender awards roundup: 22 March - 4 April 2023

Horticulture Salary survey: analysis update for 2023

careers table map and graphics

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

Horticulture tender awards roundup: 8 - 21 March 2023

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

Wada’s Memory has fabulously floppy flowers

Tree a Week: Prunus itosakura ‘Stellata’ AGM

Stellata has uniquely star-shaped pink flowers

Tree valuation method CAVAT – what’s changing?

Urban trees - credit: CAVAT

Tree a Week: Cercidiphyllum japonicum AGM

Katsura is an elegant, magical and graceful tree

Ask Sally: on first aid and health and safety

Sally Drury

Defra unveils 2023 grants available - water, trees and more

Chalk stream next to a field

HortWeekTV at the APF Exhibition 2024

Cutting edge sonic tree technology, ladders and harnesses by Sorbus and Henchman explored with Howard Drury at APF 2024: VIDEO

Howard Drury with Sorbus Henchman three-legged ladder

Howard Drury talks through fence panel making equipment from John Deere, DG Forestry and Forest Fencing at APF Show 2024: VIDEO

Stihl's Paul Hicks talks to Howard Drury about the GTA40 pruner at APF 2024: VIDEO

Stihl's Paul Hicks and Howard Drury at the APF 2024 show

Howard Drury discusses Cheviot Trees' tree seed planting tool at APF Show 2024: VIDEO

Howard Drury with the PottiPutki tree seed planting tool by Cheviot Trees

Sally Drury investigates Greenmech's new EVO 205 TT woodchipper at APF Show 2024: VIDEO

HortWeek technical editor Sally Drury with GreenMech direct sales manager Neal Hussey at the APF show

Horticulturist Howard Drury on two new Husqvarna chainsaws at APF Show 2024: VIDEO

Howard Drury with two Husqvarna chainsaws

LSI's Lee Hatton talks through the FSI B31 980 Stumpcutter at the 2024 APF show: VIDEO

HortWeek's Sally Drury and LSI's Lee Hatton at APF Show 2024

Chainsaw trousers for women at APF 2024 - Sally Drury investigates: VIDEO

Severnside Safety's Bruce Sailbury and HortWeek technical editor Sally Drury at APF Show 2024

HortWeek's Sally Drury looks at the Broyeur BVN 34 woodchipper at APF 2024: VIDEO

Arbforest MD Sean Reilly and HortWeek's Sally Drury at APF 2024

A TREE A WEEK

Tree a Week: Sycopsis sinensis

Sycopsis sinensis: has handsome leathery green foliage and wonderful petal-less flowers

Tree a Week: Cornus officinalis

Cornus officinalis cannot be beaten for its early-season gobsmackingly bright floral display

Tree a Week: Salix × rubra ‘Eugenei’

Salix × rubra ‘Eugenei’ - credit: Bob Askew

Tree a Week: Prunus ‘First Lady’

First Lady has bell-shaped rose-pink flowers

Tree a Week: Prunus rufa

Prunus rufa - Bob Askew

ARB MACHINERY & KIT

Do the latest battery chainsaws mean petrol is on the way out?

MSA 220 T is well-balanced and easy to handle in outstretched positions - credit: Still

How new woodchippers have improved sustainability options

The hybrid TW 280HB has peak power of 62hp but its emission levels match a 24.8hp engine - credit: Timberwolf

Saltex new launches: Sally Drury's top picks

Kubota tractor

Wheeled and towed blowers and sweepers for larger jobs

Bobcat sweepers designed for any surface maintenance project

Are handheld and backpack blowers better with batteries?

Airion Backpack Blower has thick shoulder straps and integrated adjustable belt

Why batteries are the best power option for handheld trimmers

Patterson’s Gardening Services uses Helion Compact 2 with a battery backpack

New machines to meet demand for hedgerow maintenance jobs

The Shelbourne Reynolds 7060T

Your guide to the correct use of battery-powered hedge trimmers

FINANCIAL RESULTS

Horticulture Sector Company Results - LIVE TABLE

The latest full-year financial results for horticulture businesses, sorted by sector.

PEST & DISEASE FACTSHEETS

Phytophthora root rots: treatments and strategies to defend against phytophthora root roots in ornamentals production and the landscape

Needle blights: how growers can manage and treat needle blights on conifers

Giant Polypore: how foresters and arborists can treat and manage giant polypore on forest and woodland trees

Phytophthora ramorum: how land managers and ornamentals growers can manage the threat of 'sudden oak death'

Honey Fungus: chemical and cultural measures for the control of honey fungus in park, garden, woodland and commercial settings

Dutch elm disease: how growers and arborists can cope with this fungal wilt