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Despite current short, windy and wet days, signs of spring are appearing at the University of Leicester’s Botanic Garden.

One of the first flowers to bloom in spring, crocuses are coming back to put on a spectacular display throughout the Sandstone G

New research suggests a strong link between the powerful smell of pine trees and climate change.

Scientists say they've found a mechanism by which these scented vapours turn into aerosols above boreal forests.

These particles promote cooling by refle

Marshalls has been shortlisted as one of the five finalists in the Best Construction & Materials PLC category at the 2014 UK Stock Market Awards.

The nominees are:

• Breedon Aggregates
• Keller Group
• Kier Group
• Marshalls
• Norcros

The awards will celebra

Following an independently co-ordinated process managed by The Centre for Brand Analysis (TCBA), Marshalls has officially been awarded Business Superbrand status for 2014. The affirmation of Superbrand status follows the latest assessment of the annu

The Low Pay Commission has recommended a 3% increase in the minimum wage to £6.50 an hour for adults, Business Secretary Vince Cable has told MPs.

If the government accepts the proposal, it would be the first increase in real terms since 2008, Mr Cab

Driveway Kerbs and Edgings Liverpool

We believe that it is always worth investing into edging your driveway with kerbs where possible, especially if you have a lawn. Raised lawns look fantastic on driveways especially when edged with large key kerbs.

After two successful years providing a platform for garden centres to launch their spring sales season, the organisers of Garden Re-Leaf Day are getting ready for next month's fund raising.

Set for Friday 14 March, the date gives retailers the option

Mike Townsend, principal advisor with the Woodland Trust, warns that there is a lack of accurate data on ancient tress in the UK, he writes:

We need a robust and open system to accurately record the loss of ancient woodland, to fully realise the scal

More than 20,000 crops from more than 100 nations have arrived at a "Doomsday vault" in the Arctic Circle.

The latest delivery coincides with the sixth anniversary of the frozen depository in Svalbard, which now houses more than 800,000 samples.

The

Marshalls Cobbletech Driveway - Iron Grey

Meols - Wirral

We have been very busy since the start of this year with many enquiries and projects. One of our first installations of the year was a Marshalls Cobbletech Driveway (Drivesys Driveway) in the

Marshalls Driveline 50 Driveways Liverpool

We believe that it is important to give our customers good quality information about products that they can choose to install on their driveways. It is important that they know all about the product they en

The Forestry Commission has published new maps and statistics showing that Great Britain has about two and a half times more forest and woodland than it had 100 years ago.

They show that Britain has almost three million hectares (7.5 million acres) o

Police in North Surrey are appealing for the public's help in tracing a conman who tricked an elderly woman out of money in New Haw.

The man called at the victim's home in Keston Avenue at around 3.30pm on Thursday 13 February offering to carry out g

The HTA stands strongly opposed to a suggested levy on non-native plant imports and stressed that a more holistic approach to the urban and rural landscape and environment would better protect our horticultural heritage and biodiversity.

In evidence

The recent storms have resulted in widespread damage to many of the trees in the New Forest, with experts busy dealing with the damage.

The authority's senior tree officer Bryan Wilson said his team had issued 160 notices for urgent work in just four

The black gardeners who fought for King and Country in the First World War are the inspiration for ‘The Gardeners Have All Gone’, Pennard Plants’ 2014 Chelsea Flower Show exhibit, which is being presented together with London education and environmen

A new global monitoring system has been launched that promises "near real time" information on deforestation around the world.

It uses information from hundreds of millions of satellite images as well as data from people on the ground.

Read the full

Musselburgh Racecourse, winner of the Dual Purpose category in the 2012 Racecourse Groundstaff awards, has signed a 3-year supplier agreement with Sherriff Amenity. The deal sees the supply of a wide range of fertilisers, herbicides and grass seed fr

You most probably don't need telling, but the Met Office has said this has been the UK’s wettest winter on record in the national series going back to 1910.

These provisional rainfall statistics for the winter so far (from 1 December 2013 to 19 Febru

Scientists at Aberystwyth University’s Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), are working with partners at Rothamsted Research North Wyke in Devon to develop new grasses that enable grassland soils to capture increased vol