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The Dennis and SISIS bowling green maintenance seminars finished in style for the year at BP Llandarcy Bowls Club in South Wales; with demand for tickets resulting in an extra day’s seminar being required to cater for the overwhelming number of green

Gregor Campbell, an art teacher from Paisley in Scotland, is joining UK doctors this autumn to warn gardeners who have asthma or a weak immune system to be on alert for a deadly fungus that lurks in compost heaps and in piles of rotting leaves.

Exper

As a hideaway for those who robbed fat cats to feed the poor, it is perhaps no surprise that a 1,000-year-old oak in Sherwood Forest has won the popular vote for England’s tree of the year.

With a girth of ten metres concealing hollow hideaways in it

A man who admitted growing cannabis has been spared jail by a judge and will now go on to study horticulture.

Joseph Collins, 24, pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to growing cannabis plants while at Falmouth University.

Judge Christopher Harvey Cl

Premiership football club Stoke City continues to see improvements at its 8-pitch Clayton Wood training complex, thanks to specialist contractor Souters Sports.

As part of an annual on-going renovation project carried out by Souters Sports, slit drain

Seppi - Italian specialists in manufacturing top quality forestry mulchers and mowers recently celebrated its 75th anniversary by hosting its biggest event in history for both dealers and distributors.

Held over two days, 150 dealers and distributors

Residents in the West Midlands are being urged to check the credentials of tree surgeons before going ahead with work after receiving reports of rogue traders in the Wyre Forest District area.

Wyre Forest District Council is advising residents to che

The November issue of the Horticultural Trades Association Market Update reveals that garden centre sales for September are up 15% on last year following a dry and warm month, which has encouraged consumers to continue to invest in their gardens.

The

Scientists have discovered a protein found in sugar beet that could be used as a blood substitute.

Haemoglobin is the protein that carries oxygen in blood and the team say plant and human versions are very similar.

Read full story on the BBC: http://

As predicted last month, the wet weather has arrived, although it’s still reasonably mild and grass on greens and pitches in general is still growing. But the 'auld enemy' is creeping in and showing her hand.

Even in strong swards moss has built up an

When an artificial turf pitch (ATP) reaches a certain age and is in need of repair, thoughts will naturally turn to resurfacing. However, as one Replay Maintenance’s clients recently discovered, not all surfaces are irreparable.

Additional usage can o

Marshalls' revenue for the ten months ended 31 October 2014 was up 18 per cent at £312 million (2013: £265 million). Marshalls says is is experiencing strong order intake and sales growth

In a bullish statement, Marshalls state that [if[ the positive

The Met Office is helping the insurance industry understand its windstorm risk. The Insurance and Capital Markets Applied Science team at the Met Office has developed a suite of European windstorm products and services aimed at supporting reinsurers,

Limagrain UK has announced the appointment of new amenity seed specialist Bruce Elliot. Bruce will be covering the southern area of the UK.

Bruce brings with him over 20 years of industry experience, predominantly in professional football where he has

 "Why don't we go into the garden?"

(3 November 2014)

Our reseach into why care homes don't use their gardens more, even when designed to latest guidance, for people with dementia was at last completed last summer and our findings have now been complet

The British Crown Green Bowling Association’s (BCGBA) Champion of Champion’s event, held at Waterloo Hotel, Blackpool last month, had a playing surface fit for the country’s best players thanks to the help of a Dennis FT510 mower and range of interch

The number of mattresses in hedgerows, old sofas on road corners and other illegally-dumped rubbish rose by a fifth in England last year, marking the first increase in flytipping in years.

Government figures published on Thursday show that there are