Winners and losers this horticulture week: garden centre buyouts, plant damage, Groundsfest partnership

Winners

Which will be the next big garden centre to be bought? 

Cutting edge new machinery installed at nursery 

Hort movers and people this week: Origin, RHS, Kew, Wyevale UPDATED 

Sweet pea growers merge

Top new plants for BBC Gardeners' World

VIDEO: Alan Titchmarsh Youtube channel

HortWeek Groundsfest partnership

Losers

Scottish grower closes after 17 years 

Every plant unloaded damaged after botched inspection at BCP Sevington

Garden centre director agrees staff cut backs on the cards 

Xylella spreads to mountain oaks and strain hits European fruit 

EXCLUSIVE Wages biggest barrier to horticulture recruitment, despite employer pay stress


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