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French Environment and Energy Minister Segolene Royal has asked garden shops to stop over-the-counter sales of Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller as part of a wider fight against pesticides seen as potentially harmful to humans.

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According to greenkeeper, Derek Turner, of Liskeard Bowling Club in Cornwall, the green took “one hell of a hammering” after nearly 200 games. It is for this very reason that he turned to the SISIS Dart to get the green back to its usual excellent st

Pellenc has launched their first professional lawnmower – the Rasion which is available in push and self-propelled options and offers impeccable cutting quality for all types of mowing work undertaken by landscapers and local authorities.

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The National Trust is inviting visitors to enjoy and explore the unique gardens of seven of its London properties on 13 and 14 June as part of Open Garden Squares Weekend 2015.

Underpinned by the Trust’s aim to keep people’s relationships with the ca

Designs for London’s newest 6 acre public park include event lawns, play spaces and river garden terraces

Battersea Power Station Development Company has unveiled the latest images showing the redevelopment’s new public park, designed by LDA Design.

Hainault Golf Club in Chigwell, Essex has signed a three year prefered supplier agreement with Sherriff Amenity. The agreement covers exclusive provision of fertilisers, chemicals and grass seed.

In the current challenging financial climate it’s becom

Ten years ago, Graeme ‘Scooter’ Wicks, managing director of Total Pitch Care in Perth, Australia, was looking for a high quality cricket mower. As a contractor with the task of maintaining a number of cricket venues, he needed a mower to keep the fac

British Flowers Week 2015 will run from Monday 15 June to Friday 19 June 2015.

Now in its third year, British Flowers Week is the national celebration of seasonal, locally-grown flowers and foliage that is uniting the UK cut flower industry and spark

Gas and electricity supplier, First Utility, more than 2,000 Britons what they put their energy into, and gardening came out top.

Gardening was a surprise winner, topping the list of your favourite outdoor pursuits with 37.5% of the vote. And First U

An online “one stop shop” of facts and figures has been launched to help improve business planning and decision-making throughout the Welsh commercial horticulture sector.

Supply chain efficiency project Horticulture Wales, which is headed up out of

Just like your interior accommodation, the outside room that is your garden needs to fulfill a number of functions, which means there is a strong risk that outdoor based clutter can sometimes be at odds with the desired stylish alfresco living settin

One of Britain’s most recognisable and unique species, the stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) is unfortunately becoming increasingly rare to find. For fifteen years, People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) has been actively working to halt the decline

A school operator and a cleaning contractor have both been fined, after a man sustained permanent spinal injuries while felling a tree on school grounds in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

The 59 year-old from Gerrard’s Cross, was using a chainsaw to f

When your dedication to cut flowers rivals Elton John’s, the eco dilemmas come thick and fast. The global horticultural industry is huge.

At the Aalsmeer flower auction in Holland, 20m stems change hands every day. In the week before Valentine’s Day

Everris UK has announced the appointment of Kevin Whitby as its new Marketing Communications Co-ordinator.

Kevin has over 14 years’ industry experience after holding a number of similar roles. After initially starting his career in distribution, Kevin

With education set to play a major role at SALTEX 2015 (4-5 November, at the NEC near Birmingham) through the Institute of Groundsmanship’s (IOG) Learning Live initiative, seminar content is taking shape with details of the Young Groundsmen’s Confere

It was one of the jewels in the crown of Georgian London: a building so unusual that a suspicious public were unconvinced it would remain standing when it was built in 1762.

Designed at the height of the eighteenth century craze for Chinoiserie, The