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Giant hogweed burns children and Plant hazard traced: these may sound like familiar headlines to anyone who has been following the week’s news and pictures showing horrific-looking blisters and sores caused by handling hogweed.

But these two stories

Derek Turner, greenkeeper at Liskeard Bowling Club in Cornwall, wanted to purchase a top quality cylinder mower that could manage the demands of a green that hosts 200 plus games per season. He put the question to fellow greenkeepers in the industry

Clive Leeke, 60, is a hedgelayer, a role he’s performed for the past 25 years. His interest in the craft was first piqued at the age of six, after seeing a pleacher – the colloquial term for someone doing the job – working on a roadside in rural Oxfo

On 8 June 2015 the paper counterpart to the British driving licence was abolished making way for an online system changing the way motorists share their details with employers and car hire companies.

To share their details motorists must generate a c

Climate change risks should be assessed in the same way as threats to national security or public health according to a new report.

For too long the world has seen rising temperatures as a problem of predicting long range weather forecasts.

The autho

The Institute of Chartered Foresters (ICF) will host its annual Forestry and Arboricultural Careers Fair at the 2015 Royal Welsh Show.

The event will showcase the range of careers and courses available across the UK, and provide interactive display o

Dennis and SISIS have recently supported Bowls Scotland in a series of seminars held all over Scotland designed to help club greenkeepers and volunteers maintain their bowling greens.

Bowls Scotland is the national governing body for outdoor lawn bowl

Essex tree specialist company, Oak View Tree Specialists Limited, has been fined after a skip loading dumper overturned severely injuring a worker.

Basildon Magistrates’ Court heard how the injured person, who was an employee at the company, was work

Following the chancellor’s budget statement yesterday, the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) is delighted to hear that that there are moves afoot to relax the Sunday Trading Laws.

HTA CEO Carol Paris comments, “This could really benefit the hort

We have gritting work available in West Yorkshire this winter, please get in touch to find out more,

George Osborne has set out plans to cut welfare spending and increase some taxes - but also boost the minimum wage - in the first Tory Budget since 1996.

The Living Wage, which starts at £7.20 next April and rises to £9 an hour by 2020, will be compu

Nick Martin has returned to work at Everris UK as a Technical Area Sales Manager – responsible for the Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Hampshire and West London areas.

World-leaders in the ornamental horticulture, turf and amenity, and specia

Etesia UK, the exclusive distributor of Pellenc battery-powered equipment in the UK, has announced Midlands Groundscare Machinery (MGM) as the new Pellenc dealer for the West Midlands area.

MGM, a new independent groundscare company based in Solihull,

Cuts of up to 40% in real terms to National Park Authority government funding in England have led to more than 225 job losses over the past five years and huge impacts on the services they are able to provide.

New information about the impacts of the

Bees are to benefit from £900 million for a new scheme to protect our countryside, Environment Secretary Elizabeth Truss has announced.

Over the next five years the new Countryside Stewardship scheme will offer grants to help improve our environment

My eldest, Rowan, is distinctly unimpressed when I tell him I am going to turn him into a gardener. “But I don’t want to be a gardener, I want to be an engineer,” he protests, and gives me the side eye when I tell him that he can be both, honestly –

Complete Weed Control the UK’s largest weed control contractor, has announced Richard Newall as its newest Area Manager to operate in Glasgow and North West Scotland.

Richard is the latest to join Complete Weed Control and after owning a solar panel b

The bizarre and informative comes to LEARNING LIVE at SALTEX 2015

LEARNING LIVE, SALTEX 2015’s all-encompassing and free to attend education programme, will offer an extensive information-sharing experience, an incredible line-up of guest speakers and

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With temperatures heading up, and in some cases record highs beaten, what precautions should you take when applying sprays and fertilisers to help plants get through the summer months?

Volatilisation
Spraying in hot weather no