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
A man who collected more than 1,800 gnomes is set to be cremated in the gnome outfit he regularly wore.
Ron Broomfield, from Lincolnshire, who collected gnomes for more than 50 years, died at the weekend, aged 80.
The retired window cleaner rais
They look like the gaping bloody jaws of an alien monster, but this is actually a carnivorous plant which has evolved to capture insects.
The new flesh eating hybrid has been created by US based horticulturalist Matthew Kaelin, and named after H.R
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
The dwindling number of people in the UK with horticultural skills represents a major challenge to the horticultural industry in trying to meet the growing demands placed on it.
As part of the industry-wide ‘Horticulture Matters’ campaign to raise th
Nine garden centre chains including B&Q and Homebase stock product containing neonicotinoid linked to bee declines, says Ethical Consumer
Garden centres are being urged to withdraw products which contain a type of pesticide linked to bee declines.
In
Following a failed FA test on Shrewsbury Sports Village’s 3G pitch, England’s football governing body recommended bringing in the help of Replay Maintenance to help solve the problem.
The eight year old pitch unfortunately failed to pass a pitch test
The soil beneath the grass on your lawn tends to become compacted over time and as a result has too many solid particles in a certain volume or space which prevents proper circulation of air, water and nutrients within the soil. The reasons f
Notable for being one of the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888, Derby County FC is a proud club that plies its trade at the aptly named Pride Park stadium. The stadium’s pitch is something that the club take particular pride in, a
A new business has set up a network of landscapers to link them to their customers.
Ethan Mason is growing a network of recommended landscapers, called Ethan Mason Stone Champions.
Founder Mike Leeming, said: "We are dedicated to supporting professio
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