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ANALYSIS

This month in HortWeek history: 23 April 2022

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

Double H

Legal issues this horticulture week

HSE

Peat: what's the latest?

Growing media

Seven policy updates relevant to horticulture

Border controls infographic

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

Easter flowers

Plants People: John Hedger describes his horticultural journey

John Hedger, commercial manager at Newey

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

What stands in the way of biodiversity net gain delivery?

Biodiversity Net Gain panel session - credit: HW

20 most read horticulture stories this HortWeek month

Garden centre in the snow

Horticulture tender awards roundup: 8 - 21 March 2023

Peat poll finds half believe 2026 is too soon for ban

Mail order plant exports to Northern Ireland in doubt, but Defra says it will all be ok

Northern Ireland

Summer bedding sales slump does not have to happen

Customer shopping for plants at Coolings Garden Centre

What do HTA, NFU and RHS policy demands have in common and how do they differ?

Houses of parliament see across the River Thames

Pest and diseases survey shows Xylella and OPM concern

Oak processionary moth caterpillars circling a tree trunk

What is the Lords horticulture enquiry hearing from the industry? - in 20 bullet points

Lords enquiry

Horticulture industry and potential impact from the Budget

Jeremy Hunt - credit: Andrew Parsons

Emmett on the Budget, 'compressed spring' and supermarket rationing

Martin Emmett

Plants people: What has shaped Charles Carr’s career with plants?

Charles Carr

LATEST ORNAMENTALS NEWS

poinsettia

Poinsettia at £1 sells out

Special varieties will sell at premium prices, but bargain poinsettias grab the headlines.

RHS reveals peat-free grower numbers during Four Oaks/HortWeek seminar

Perennial fundraisers added to plant library

Frank P Matthews plants trees at National Trust Craflwyn Hall

Seven latest horticulture developments

Free flower bulbs for schools

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

Jill Biden tulip launched

Peonies in the spotlight with Alec White

Deborah James rose raises £50,000

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

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

Seasonal plant fairs to take place at Arundel Castle

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

Modern slavery arrests in West Sussex

EXCLUSIVE

Top 100 Ornamental Nurseries report reflects a year of consolidation and tricky trading in 2023

The ninth annual Top 100 Ornamental Nurseries report details the turnover of growers in the UK.

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

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

Magnolia — large-flowered hybrids for the garden

Magnolia 'Royal Purple'

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

Native trees and shrubs - part four

Sambucus nigra produces purplish-black berries that hang in heavy bunches are mildly poisonous if eaten raw but they are edible after cooking

GARDEN CENTRE DIRECTORY

Two customers carrying plants in pots

UK garden centres — every garden centre outlet listed

OPINION

Risk must be reduced to enable growers to increase production

Graham Richardson

Crop-protection funding dilemma

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

Sally Drury

Secret Gardener #22: on the Budget and state of play for 2023

Secret Gardener

Another border control post bungle

Mike Parr

Can we cushion the thud when the July drop-off hits home?

Time pressure is a crucial factor in horticulture

Why we must focus on biosecurity

Politicians need to know it's risky to 'just grow more'

Graham Richardson, group managing director at Johnsons of Whixley

Could horticulture be the key to the UK’s science and innovation superpower ambitions?

Lord Redesdale

EAMU UPDATES

EAMU roundup: March 2023

EAMU Expiry Alert: July 2023

EAMU roundup: February 2023

Cabbage field

EAMU Expiry Alert: June 2023

EAMU roundup: January 2023

Spraying glasshouse plants

EAMU Expiry Alert: May 2023

EAMU roundup: December 2022

Field of carrots

EAMU roundup: November 2022

Onlon field

PEST & DISEASE FACTSHEETS

Vine weevils: ways to control these pests after the loss of active ingredients over recent years

Vine weevil nothing on fuchsia - credit: Dove Associates

How to control rats on ornamental crops

Brown rat

Adjuvants: crops will benefit if the right adjuvants are added to the spray tank

How can ornamentals growers control sooty moulds?

Sooty mould on Laurus - credit: Dove Associates

Scale insects: the most vulnerable stage of the life cycle needs to be targeted

Scale insect damage on a leaf

Sciarid and shore flies: frass from these pests reduces plant quality while feeding damage creates entry points for serious root diseases

Pests: both adult sciarid fly (left) and shore flies (right) will lay eggs in moist growing media

Takahashia japonica: cotton stringy scale insects' distinctive ovisacs could lower aesthetic value

Botrytis: protecting ornamentals crops from Botrytis

Symptoms of Botrytis fatsia

Leaf and stem nematodes: cultural controls and nursery hygiene are key to avoiding plant and bulb damage

Plant leaf damage caused by nematodes

Prunus bacterial spot/canker: this notifiable disease can inflict serious damage on all Prunus species

Black/brown spots on leaf surface

Damping-off: what steps can growers take to keep it off the ornamentals nursery?

Tasmanian eucalyptus beetle: Eucalyptus trees face the risk of significant defoliation from a beetle that is expected to become established in the UK

Paropsisterna selmani

Spider mites: defences for protected and outdoor ornamentals against spider mites

Spidermite on rose

Pepper weevil: sweet peppers, chilli peppers and other Solanaceae are at risk from this small but potentially devastating pest

Pepper weevil

Leaf miners: how growers can protect ornamentals crops from leaf miners

Lemon tree borer: Wood-boring larvae of this beetle could wreak serious economic and environmental damage to native trees and shrubs

Oemona hirta

Leafhoppers, capsids, lace bugs & sap suckers: how to defend ornamentals crops against these pests

Capsid damage leaves small holes in young leaves

Plane anthracnose: how to treat a disease that can quickly render plants unsaleable

Platanus with plane anthracnose symptoms

Red palm weevil: retailers and growers must beware of this highly invasive pest

Red palm weevil

Peach leaf curl: how to combat the disfiguring effects of peach leaf curl on ornamentals crops

Leaves affected by peach leaf curl infection