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GIMA Conference

8 reports from GIMA conference

Around 80 suppliers attended Garden Industry Manufacturers Association's AGM and day conference at University of Warwick on 25 March.

Analysis

What you can learn from 11,390 garden centre reviews

Most popular 30 plant varieties: EPOS data in first quarter of 2025

Horticulture award winners in first quarter of 2025

Horticulture obituaries in first quarter of 2025

Horticulture tender awards roundup: 19 - 25 March 2025

Industry reacts to Government’s long-awaited pesticides National Action Plan

How Palmer Nurseries aims to transform the future of landscape supply

EPOS sales data

Top 25 garden centre departments: EPOS data March 2025

Top 60 garden centre plants: EPOS data March 2025

Top 100 garden centre products: EPOS data March 2025

Find more exclusive monthly EPOS sales data

Survey

HORTWEEK SURVEY: How well is the UK planning system working for horticulture?

Highlights

Winners and losers this horticulture week: National Trust, Blue Diamond, imports, peat

Hort movers: Bayer Natural England, RHS UPDATED

Most read horticulture stories this week: Blue Diamond, pesticides action plan, GB houseplants

HW Podcast

Sustainable growth in a turbulent landscape market, with Blakedown Landscapes

In Other news

Retail sales up but tax bomb looms

Tax hikes the biggest worry despite sales increasing, HortWeek finds + Spring Statement reaction

UK Border Strategy is 'most expensive and least efficient' in the world, EFRA Committee hears UPDATED

NFU warns against UK lowering import standards to combat Trump tariffs

Catherine Dawson awarded Veitch Memorial Medal for outstanding contribution to horticultural science and sustainability

New owners for Somerset garden centre + full list of 2025 garden centre sales

Take up of peat-free too slow, says supplier

Zeichner to face EFRA over future of farming

Pochazia shantungensis destruction continues as PRA issued

Amenity Forum ‘welcomes’ pesticides National Action Plan but calls for defined timelines

Horticulture planning updates as HortWeek launches survey

Latest Companies House results: Johnsons Nurseries, Elsoms, DLF, TGC UPDATED

The Colegrave Seabrook Foundation announces Scholarship Winners 2025

Trial explores the use of frozen trees to help extend planting season

Defra calls for comments for quarantine policy review of tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV)

HCP plea for growers to share plant protection products EAMU costs

Government rural crime funding welcomed

Dogs in garden centres under discussion again

More horticulture news

Comment

Overview of course changes affecting current horticulture education provision

More comment

Latest tenders and contract awards

Tenders Tracker: LIVE TABLE

Welcome to the Tenders Tracker, where HortWeek keeps track of the latest horticulture-related public sector tenders so you don't have to.

Plant health

EAMU Expiry Alert: May 2025

EAMU roundup: February 2025

Plant health alert: Prunus care

Plant health alert: wind scorch risk

Plant Pest Alert: tortrix moths monitoring

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HortWeek Exclusive Data

UK Garden Centres Directory - Interactive MAP

CLICK HERE to view monthly breakdowns of the top garden retail product sellers according to Electronic Point-of-Sale data.

CLICK HERE to view all HortWeek's coverage on the use of peat in horticulture.

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