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The slow start to the season with cooler night temperatures has meant the annual chafer grub damage spree has not hit with a bang but rather come in dribs & drabs; but we are braced for more as the weather warms up.

Etesia continues to spread its wings to every corner of the UK after announcing another three dealers to its growing network.

Specialists in building high quality grass cutting machinery for both the professional and domestic market, Etesia’s extensiv

The London Borough of Southwark is an incredibly busy area within Inner London, boasting some of the city’s greatest landmarks and tourist attractions such as Tower Bridge, London Bridge, The Tate Modern and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, to name a few

Andy Richards, Grounds Manager at Shrewsbury School, one of the country’s leading independent schools, has recently purchased a new SISIS Rotorake TM1000 complete with a range of interchangeable reels to complete end of season renovations.

The new mac

Once, Louise Chapman used to teach English and drama in a secondary school. This morning, instead of force-feeding John Steinbeck to reluctant teenagers, she was walking in the spring sunshine with her terrier, Buddy, at her heels.

She saw early prim

One of the UK’s leading cricket clubs, Sussex CCC, has heaped praise on Sherriff Amenity’s range of Marathon fertiliser products, noting a vast improvement in the turf of its famous cricket pitches.

Founded in 1839, Sussex CCC was the first ever first

Established for over 30 years, Richmonds Groundcare has been supplying groundcare, forestry and arboriculture professionals, as well local domestic customers, with top-quality products and machinery from world-renowned manufacturers.

The company is pl

A beech tree standing 144ft (44 metres) high has been declared the tallest native tree in Britain.

The tree, which is thought to be almost 200 years old, stands in Newtimber Woods on the National Trust’s Devil’s Dyke Estate in West Sussex, in the Sou

In this age of instant gratification and short attention spans, it’s a surprise that gardening is enjoying a renaissance among the young.

A survey by the Royal Horticultural Society found that 89 per cent of 16- to 24-year-olds say they have a garde

Souters Sports, one of the UK’s leading specialist sportsturf contractors, has breathed new life into the world’s oldest golf course following the installation of a new irrigation system.

History books prove that golf was played on Musselburgh Links a

Gardens are one of the greatest things about the UK and as part of National Gardening Week the event is launching the first ever National Open Gardens Day on 17 April.

For this year’s National Gardening Week gardens that normally charge for entry or

Two scientists from the University of California, Berkeley are using crowdsourcing to help map the location of edible weeds across a number of neighbourhoods in California.

Their findings and those of others on the project are being logged on an app

Exbury Gardens' head gardener John Anderson is hailing the 2015 display of magnolias as the most exciting in his 10 year tenure, and advises that the display will be at its best for the next ten days.

"I’d urge visitors to get to Exbury quickly to se

A DIY method of measuring plant health using a modified digital camera has been created by a Kickstarter Public Labs project.

The Infragram project involves removing the inbuilt infrared filter and adding a filter that blocks visible red light instea

Built in the 1870s, Cody Dock was once an industrial heartland, employing thousands of people at gas and chemical works.

But in the past 25 years it lay abandoned, blocking people from walking the length of the Lea River.

The effort of volunteers and

Trimax Mowing Systems UK has announced the appointment of David Thompson as their new UK and Europe Manager.

Expansion is in the air at Trimax, as the company continues to make its mark in the groundscare market: David’s appointment signals the second

A recent change of ownership at Charlton Athletic FC means that Christmas has come early for head groundsman Nathan Chapman. After the new owners revealed their intentions of a significant investment at the stadium and also in the turf maintenance ma