LJN Blog Posts

Today, the Big Lottery Fund announced it will invest a further £20million in England’s public parks and cemeteries, £10million a year until 2018*. Combined with HLF’s commitment of £20m per year under the Parks for People programme in England, this t

ONE OF the UK’s leading commercial nurseries hosted a successful Confor National Nursery Open Day yesterday (September 8, 2015) at its transplants division for its forestry customers.

Wyevale Nurseries Transplants Division in Ledbury opened its doors

Over 100 Landscapers, Nurseries, Local Authorities and Architects from across the UK and further afield made their way to Coles Nurseries on Thursday 3rd September for the biennial Coles Open Day, this year held at Syston, the company’s second larges

Staff at Wyevale Nurseries are celebrating today (September 9, 2015) after its new plant Salvia ‘Love and Wishes’ won the Best Plant Introduction – Nursery Stock Award at the Four Oaks Trade Show.

Wyevale Nurseries based in Hereford entered seven new

Green-tech has been named as one of three finalists for the 2015 Press Business Awards Large Business of the Year.

The awards are in their 25th year and receive entries for 14 categories from businesses across North and East Yorkshire.

Laura Knowlson

Delegates attending a specialised conference dedicated to the subject of non-native invasive plants will be able to see first-hand pioneering field trials where control methods for Japanese knotweed are being researched.

National trade body The Prope

An online forestry careers portal, supported by a wide range of organisations and hosted by the Royal Forestry Society (RFS), is being launched in time for the new academic year.

Developed in partnership with the Forestry Learning and Development Gro

With the pitch at Falkirk FC’s stadium being used ten hours a day and seven days a week, head groundsman Joe Wallace is a busy man. To help him with his maintenance tasks, he relies on a range of SISIS products which are specifically built to fulfil

Following on from the success of its annual Brett Approved Installer Award ceremony, Brett Landscaping has undertaken key research – using opinions and experiences of past and current award-winners – to discover why Brett Approved Installers find the

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