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A retired gardener took his own life after a change in the benefits system that left him owing more than £800 to his local council in London, an inquest has heard.

Newham council admitted a failure to deal with Malcolm Burge’s benefit issue because o

The Greater London Authority (GLA) should be granted powers to create new garden suburbs in partnership with county councils surrounding the city to help meet the capital's future housing needs, a report by the London Assembly's Conservative group h

SALTEX 2015 has seen a huge amount of exhibitor bookings from a wide range of sectors in recent weeks. Companies representing forestry, play, groundscare machinery, artificial surfaces, natural turf and landscaping products can all be seen by visitin

The dust has barely settled after a busy BTME and it's time for the Six Nations once again. All eyes will be on the magnificent Millennium Stadium and the new Desso pitch which will be under the spotlight. Following a recent visit by Complete Weed Co

British Flowers Week, the annual campaign to promote British flowers and foliage, 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 foli

We are currently laying a granite patio and are wondering about trying something new for grouting/pointing it.

We have previously used a product by a company called Steintec - which worked out well but was wondering what other people use, we know we c

Landscape Construction firm, Ground Control, recently began work to update and renovate Chelmsford City Centre to make the area more user-friendly and update the look and feel. 

Working closely with the main contractor, Denne Construction, the team wo

Pam Lewis has worked with meadows and grassland all her life. Her own garden, Sticky Wicket in Dorset, was made famous by her book Making A Wildflower Meadow, first published in 2003 and now out in paperback. Sticky Wicket is composed of eight meadow

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and Coventry University have launched a joint study to look at the effects gardening tools, combined with different gardening tasks, have on the physical health of gardeners.

The research, the first of its kind i

Fourteen of the 15 hottest years on record have occurred since 2000, according to the UN World Meteorological Organisation, as rising carbon emissions continue to trap heat and drive climate change.

The WMO’s new analysis narrowly places 2014 as the

A Chester-based gardening company has been fined after an employee suffered burns while lighting a pile of giant hogweed.

Greenstripe Ltd was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an investigation found the employee had been given

Labour will pitch itself as the party that will protect nature and the British countryside this week, with a promise to prevent publicly owned forests from being sold.

In a speech at an RSPB nature reserve on Tuesday, shadow environment secretary Mar

Little Aston Golf Club, at Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands, experienced a bunker ‘wipe-out’ recently when an unexpected storm deposited over five inches of rainwater in an hour. All 93 of the course’s bunkers were left severely damaged, yet at

I have just purchased realtime landscape architect 2014. Has anybody used this software ? I am having problems when i have completed a design and then print the design it  is only a tiny section of an A4 sheet.  My expertise is not in computers so an

A self-employed arboriculturalist from Spalding has been fined after two workers  – a father and son – both suffered hand injuries while splitting logs.

Grantham Magistrates’ Court heard that on 8 March 2014, a 52-year-old man, who was working for Le

If you've ever pondered what trees think about life’s major issues, the city of Melbourne has come up with an elegant solution – you can email them and find out.

The city council has devised an interactive urban forest map that provides individual da

If you have been asked to clear a plot of land and are unlucky to cross asbestos then Defra has information on how to deal with the material.

Although aimed at farmers dealing with farm buildings, the advice may prove useful if you are clearing aroun