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The pitch at Leicester City’s impressive King Power stadium exceeded Premiership standards all last season with Head Groundsman John Ledwidge saying his relationship with key supplier Everris, part of the ICL Group, as being a major factor.

John’s dre

Shoot, has announced that it has reached a landmark 20,000 plant entries on its online plant database, confirming its position as the essential online reference tool for gardeners from the novice to the expert gardener.

Nicola Gammon, founder and CEO

As the days shorten and the trees don their golden hues, STIHL is there for busy gardeners, helping them prepare for autumn with its ‘Biggest ever chainsaw promotion’. The promotion kicks-off this month until 18th December with a range of free produc

A flower show is using DNA technology to ensure a £1,000 giant tomato prize is not won by a cheating grower.

Organisers of the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show have responded to competitors’ concerns that an unscrupulous gardener might sneak in a rogue v

The experienced Ronnie Frame has returned to Sherriff Amenity as Amenity Specialist, covering Lothians, Central Scotland, Fife and the Scottish borders.

After initially starting his working life as a greenkeeper at Duddingston Golf Club in Edinburgh,

A Nottinghamshire prison has won the coveted Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Windlesham Trophy for the best prison garden in England and Wales.

HMP Whatton, a Category C facility, won the award for a record seventh time, making it the most successf

Etesia has launched two new professional pedestrian rotary mowers – the PHCT and PHCS PRO 46 Evolution models.

Etesia’s pedestrian mowers have been providing efficiency, excellent ergonomics and top quality standards for over 23 years. Designed to of

The UK has experienced a typically English summer, some great sunny days interspersed with lots of rain! But what does this mean for autumn colours?

When will we start to see leaves turning colour and falling? And just how much does the weather aff

UK-based conservationist Miles King will be asking ‘How should we value nature?’ on Wednesday 23 September at Knoll Gardens.
 
Miles has worked in nature conservation for 29 years, leading conservation work for Plantlife, The Grasslands Trust and Bug

BBUK has been chosen as landscape architect for the £13million refurbishment of Preston Bus Station.

The practice's proposal for a multi-purpose new piazza accompanies New York architect John Puttick Associates' design for a home for Preston Youth

John Deere Financial has announced a new finance programme for UK customers of the company’s comprehensive compact tractor range, which includes 1R, 2R, 3R and 4R Series models from 25 to 66hp.

Available to business customers until further notice, th

WYEVALE Nurseries in Hereford is this month (September, 2015) taking its first Amenity/Landscape focused stand to the Four Oaks Trade Show.

The company will be showcasing its extensive range of plant material grown for the amenity market, landscape c

Although there may be a ‘special one’ who grabs the majority of the headlines at Chelsea FC, there is another who is perhaps not quite so much in the spotlight. Both are renowned for being at the top of their game and one is obviously Jose Mourinho;

The market for domestic garden landscaping materials is forecast to see steady growth of 3-4% per annum following a period of volatile market conditions, caused by the economic downturn and weather conditions, particularly affecting the market in 201

ONE OF the UK’s leading commercial nurseries is this month (September, 2015) inviting forestry customers to visit its transplants division as part of Confor National Nursery Open Day.

Wyevale Nurseries Transplants Division in Ledbury is opening its d

Every charity values their supporters – or certainly should do – but in light of the recent news about some charities passing on data, here at Thrive we’d like to reassure all our supporters, our future supporters and the general public that we have

The Landscape Institute has launched a new initiative showcasing rising stars within the profession on its Be A Landscape Architectcareers website.  The new ‘Landscape Showcase’ series will allow the Landscape Institute to identify and celebrate stud

Leading landscape supplier Green-tech is gearing up for a September jam-packed with events, road trips, CPDs and site installations.

 The team hit the road on Thursday 3^rd September and head to Leicester for the James Coles & Sons open day. The even

It seems that the once British of all traditions, the lawn, is going into rapid decline.

One in four homes in the UK paves over or lays artificial grass.

Out of 1,000 homeowners survey, a whopping 10 percent said that they found a lawn a burden and t

A good cup of tea is said to soothe the soul, and it seems that a special brew can perk up plant life just as easily.

An undergraduate student based at the Edinburgh Campus of Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) has discovered that compost tea is an effe