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So does placing broken bits of pottery in the bottom of patio pots to aid drainage help or hinder your plants?

Well, Which? Gardening has said the technique is a load of crock having carried out a series of controlled tests.

They used 40 ten litre po

Workplace falls and dangerous machines have been named as the two most common reasons for companies being prosecuted over health and safety breaches in the North West of England.

On average, 23 people are killed while at work in the North West every

GMB, the union for staff at the Royal Botanic Gardens, is calling for public support to save 120 jobs under threat at Kew Gardens, London and at Wakehurst Place, near Haywards Heath, Sussex due to government cuts.

In 1983, 90 per cent of Kew’s fundin

Five National Parks have today each received a share of £394,075 in funding from Defra for urgent repairs following the winter storms and flooding.

The recent storms caused damage to footpaths,bridleways, locks and bridges across five parks in Englan

Jockey Club Racecourses, operator of 15 leading UK racecourses, including those at Aintree, Cheltenham, Epsom Downs and Newmarket, has signed a three-year extension to their contract with sports and amenity turf and landscape supplier Sherriff Amenit

A range of Etesia mowers, including two new Duocut RMHB 46cm pedestrian mowers, are helping to maintain the green space areas surrounding and including Durham university - the UK’s third oldest university.

Durham University has a unique estate, which

Jobber - the management system for in-the-field workers - now integrates with Xero.

Xero is easy to use online accounting software that’s designed specifically for small businesses. Everything's online, so you can work when and where you want to. Ju

The recent purchase of a SISIS Javelin Aer-Aid 1500 tractor mounted aerator by Mick Doyle, head groundsman at Bradford City Football Club, has seen a dramatic improvement of the playing surface at both The Coral Windows Stadium and the nearby trainin

A survey to over 1,500 respondents commissioned by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS)* has found that 80% of the UK is getting outside gardening over the 2014 National Gardening Week, 14th to 20th April, and Easter Weekend.
The top three gardening

Barclays Premier League side Crystal Palace has become the latest top flight club to purchase a Dennis G860 mower complete with a range of interchangeable cassettes for use at their Selhurst Park stadium.

The Eagle’s head groundsman, Mark Perrin, know

The Ely City Golf Club, with a thriving 18-hole Henry Cotton designed course, has signed a 3-year sole supplier agreement with Sherriff Amenity. The deal will involve the supply of a wide range of fertilisers, chemicals and seed from their range and

Work by Natural Resources Wales to replant large areas of woodland felled due to larch disease has been completed at a number of forests.

These include important areas such as the Bwlch Nant yr Arian near Aberystwyth, the Afan Valley near Neath and W

Killings of people protecting the environment and rights to land increased sharply between 2002 and 2013 as competition for natural resources intensifies, a new report from Global Witness reveals.

In the most comprehensive global analysis of the pro

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has worked with the Forestry Commission and the Woodland Trust to deliver woodland at Catterick Training Area, which will enable armed forces to develop skills in using wooded areas as cover in battle.

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A committee of MPs has said that the UK has to do more to fight the threat of non-native species wrecking havoc on other plants and animals.

Japanese knotweed is one of the dangers highlighted in a report by the Environmental Audit Committee which sa

A cosmic mystery is uniting monks and scientists in Japan after a cherry tree grown from a seed that orbited the Earth for eight months bloomed years earlier than expected -- and with very surprising flowers.

The four-year-old sapling -- grown from a

A garden designed by Andrew Fisher Tomlin and Dan Bowyer which won best in show and a RHS gold award at the Royal Horticultural Society Flower Show in Cardiff is to be permanently relocated just yards from where it was on show.

The woodland garden w

National Gardening Week is up and running and takes place until 20 April, 2014, with events on offer the length and breadth of the UK.

This year, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of RHS Britain in Bloom, the UK’s largest volunteering project, the we

Three garden cities are to be built, with at least 15,000 homes each, with the aim to tackle Britain's chronic housing shortage, Nick Clegg has said.

The deputy prime minister has issued a 'call to arms for visionaries' who have new and interesting i

A visionary project to accelerate the expansion and restoration of the country’s native Caledonian pine forests to their former glory will see thousands of trees planted on a nature reserve in Speyside.

The ambitious conservation scheme aims to expa