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The YoungHort initiative, which has been set up to promote and showcase young people in the industry and also to help encourage more young people to choose a career in horticulture, is to host their first event on Friday 7 March at the RHS Gardens Wi

In London last Friday, research scientists, chemical industry representatives, and journalists gathered for an open discussion session that concluded a three-day summit about the impact of neonicotinoid pesticides on honeybees.

The result was a rich

Milton Keynes based landscaping company, Frosts Landscapes, is at the centre of a row to develop its current headquarters at Wain Close, Wavendon.

MKWeb reports that Frosts has outgrown its current facility and need to increase storage to 20,000 squ

A £200,000 ‘helping hand’ will give young people in Yorkshire the chance to get horticultural training and increase their chance of finding a job.

The Peter Sowerby Foundation has donated £200,000 to the RHS to deliver the three-year programme.

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With the ground being so wet the idea of turfing is perhaps not high on your agenda it may surprise you to know that we have been selling turf throughout January, the quality of the grass is good for the time of year and the sandy soil on which it is

Gardening students have just one week left to apply for a sponsored scholarship with the David Colegrave Foundation (DCF).

The scheme enables horticultural companies to offer support by way of funding, study tours and work experience.

Among the spons

I have been a member of Landscape Juice for many years now. The last couple I have been very quiet online and during this time I have been helping Phil Voice to try and use the recognition the LJN has to its advantage. This recognition is at best dow

"A study traced 1,000 people living in British cities for five years and found those living in greener surroundings reported less mental distress and higher life satisfaction, even after taking into account income, employment, marital status, physica

EU Member States have voted to withdraw approval for all methiocarb slug pellets, including Draza forte and Decoy Wetex.

The vote means that approvals for all slug bait uses of methiocarb in the EU will be stopped.

Bayer CropScience is the only globa

A collection of jewel-like waxcap mushrooms has been recorded in Northumberland National Park, including one never seen before in England.

Waxcaps are fungi of unimproved grassland that is often rich in moss and grazed by cattle or sheep.

They are in

The Royal Forestry Society (RFS) is calling on the government and Forestry Commission England to put control of grey squirrels on a similar level of importance to that of tree diseases.

It is pressing for more research, effective support for woodland

One of the UK's most famous gardens for snowdrops, the National Trust’s Anglesey Abbey, is set to be transformed into a ‘sea of white’ as thousands of the delicate flower come into bloom early due to the unseasonably warm winter weather.

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Brighton-based photographer Heather Buckley’s striking image of foxgloves in the gardens at Great Dixter House, East Sussex won her the title of RHS Photographer of the Year and a £1,000 prize.

Seventeen-year-old Mateusz Piesiak from Poland was named

Over the last 5 years we have been very fortunate to receive 12 Marshall's landscaping awards at both regional and national level and it was a privilege to be chosen by Marshalls as the 2012 UK winners of "Best use of Ethically Sourced Fairstone Pavi

Defra has held a ‘Plant Health Stakeholder Summit’ in London that looked at ways to protect the UK’s trees and plants from pests and disease.

A key element of the work has been the development of a risk register, highlighting 700 possible threats to

While not expected to happen in the next year or two, scientists believe the UK will begin to experience drier summers within a decade.

Scientists at the University of Reading say that major currents in the North Atlantic Ocean seem to be slowing dow

Signs are to be put up in the New Forest warning dog owners about a little-known disease that has killed 17 dogs across Britain in recent months.

The Forestry Commission notices tell owners to take their pet to a vet should it develop lesions on its

In an initiative by the RHS and Defra, £50,000 is being made available to help community gardening groups use less peat-based growing media.

The organisations are making the money available to It’s Your Neighbourhood and Britain in Bloom groups throu

An article on the Guardian website provides evidence of how alien species can be unintentionally spread around, caused merely walking in a particular area and picking up spores (or seeds) on footwear.

"Scientists have discovered an unexpected leftove