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EXCLUSIVE

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.

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

Opportunity knocks for the next generation of horticulturists

Horticulture tender awards roundup: 8 - 21 March 2023

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

Tree a Week: Prunus itosakura ‘Stellata’ AGM

Tree valuation method CAVAT – what’s changing?

Tree a Week: Cercidiphyllum japonicum AGM

Ask Sally: on first aid and health and safety

Defra unveils 2023 grants available - water, trees and more

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A TREE A WEEK

Tree a Week: Sycopsis sinensis

Tree a Week: Cornus officinalis

Tree a Week: Salix × rubra ‘Eugenei’

Tree a Week: Prunus ‘First Lady’

Tree a Week: Prunus rufa

ARB MACHINERY & KIT

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

How new woodchippers have improved sustainability options

Saltex new launches: Sally Drury's top picks

Wheeled and towed blowers and sweepers for larger jobs

Are handheld and backpack blowers better with batteries?

Why batteries are the best power option for handheld trimmers

New machines to meet demand for hedgerow maintenance jobs

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