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EXCLUSIVE TOP 70 Landscape & Maintenance Contractors Ranking

Top 70 Landscape and Maintenance Contractors

Acquisitions and consolidation mean change at the top in this year's Top 70 Landscape & Maintenance Contractors report

LATEST NEWS

Ben gardening

Young people encouraged to apply for new work placements to celebrate King’s Coronation

New to Nature offers a new natural legacy to mark The King’s Coronation and The Queen’s Jubilee.

Green-tech provides automated irrigation for Bristol’s latest sunken garden

Garden design duo tell RHS Elsewhere Garden story through plants

Gardening inspiration to beat the heat at RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival

Worthing's Local Plan seeks to enhance nature

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

Joe Perkins highlights importance of mangrove forests at 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

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

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

Defra produces plan after water quality criticism

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

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

Garden designer dies aged 46

Wildflower meadow to return to Stonehenge and 100 other heritage sites

Winners and losers this horticulture week

ANALYSIS

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?

Active street

Legal issues this horticulture week

HSE

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

The Beardy Gardener

Horticulture tender awards roundup: 22 March - 4 April 2023

Horticulture Salary survey: analysis update for 2023

careers table map and graphics

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

What stands in the way of biodiversity net gain delivery?

Biodiversity Net Gain panel session - credit: HW

Top 10 horticulture plans of the week

Planning portal

20 most read horticulture stories this HortWeek month

Garden centre in the snow

Horticulture tender awards roundup: 8 - 21 March 2023

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

Wada’s Memory has fabulously floppy flowers

What is the latest on net zero?

RASE

Ask Sally: on lawn establishment

Sally Drury

Tree a Week: Prunus itosakura ‘Stellata’ AGM

Stellata has uniquely star-shaped pink flowers

Horticulture industry and potential impact from the Budget

Jeremy Hunt - credit: Andrew Parsons

Tree a Week: Cercidiphyllum japonicum AGM

Katsura is an elegant, magical and graceful tree

International Women’s Day: 100+ Leading Women in Horticulture 2023

Clare Matterson, RHS director general

SARGENT'S SOLUTIONS

Steering clear of planning pitfalls for landscape projects

How to thrive if landscape work slows down

How landscapers can make a splash in the marketplace

How can landscape and garden contractors best put themselves in the shop window

Avoid traps when sourcing landscaping materials

Why landscape contract terms must stand up in court

Landscapers should use accreditation only when earned

COMMENT

From lowest cost to lasting value: Why a horticultural approach to grounds maintenance will bear fruit

Hedge trimmer

Is Japanese knotweed under control in the UK?

Japanese knotweed

Horticulture must prepare for what comes next

Alphabet soup of horticulture names

David Darrell's Merlin Growers logo

Good reasons to join horticulture trade groups

Why good horticulture industry events matter

LANDSCAPE PLANT LIBRARY

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

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

Betula - some colourful alternative birches to the usual suspects

Nepalese Orange has gorgeous rich orange bark, peeling in coppery-orange strips and prominent lenticels

Prunus Part 3 - flowering cherries for top-working

P. incisa ‘Yamadei’ AGM (H6)

Prunus Part 2 - flowering cherries for street tree planting

P. ‘Beni-yutaka’ AGM (H6) pale pink flowers close up

Prunus part 1 - flowering cherries for the garden

Asano: each deep-pink chrysanthemum flower has up to 100 pointed petals

Rowan and whitebeam (Sorbus) — kaleidoscopic colours

Sorbus caloneura: noted for particularly beautiful chocolate-red emergent spring foliage

Native trees and shrubs - part five

Ulmus glabra: wych and Scotch elm are now relatively rare in the British Isles after having been largely decimated by Dutch elm disease

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

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