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Of the latest round of job cuts, some 560 are relationship managers working in the commercial banking arm and working with small businesses, which is half of the team in an area that is being closely watched by politicians concerned about the lack of
Oldham Athletic Football Club has signed a three year supply agreement with Sherriff Amenity for all line marking and paint requirements. The agreement sees the Bowcom GMX line marker and Bowgrass Supreme Plus paint used for line marking duties at th
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.
Tradi
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
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
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.
Anglesey Abb
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
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“Gardening programmes tend to be very ‘traditional’ white middle-class in their attitude towards gardening”, Julia Sargeant said in an interview after she won gold at Chelsea Flower Show in 2016. She was the first black gardener to design…
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Worrying if it's all the local privet , I know of flourishing privet over 70 years old .
Do you know when the affected privet was last pruned , I am thinking is it stressed…"
As to replacement I would not use Photinia it has a rather open habit and does…"
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Privet hedges dieing
Hi Has anyone got the same problem we have in our area in Warwickshire, the privet hedges atleast 40years old or more are dieing, I appreciate the dry weather hasn't helped but this looks like the same as what's destroying the box hedging.And any…
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Trying to change my email on here, followed instructions and received an email from LJN asking me to confirm changes by clicking on link within the email ,but there is no link!! Why make it so difficult? LJN is not exactly a high risk site , in…
Read more…Revive a lawn
Hi AllI would like some advice on the best way to revive a lawn after this hot weather we've had, please.I look forward to hearing from you
Read more…Paving pushing up because of the hot and super dry weather
I would love to hear if anyone has had an experience of paving being pushed up because of the hot and dry weather this summer. We have had a number of patios where this has become a problem (a couple we laid ourselves and quite a few more where…
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