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The Shade Zone enjoyed a successful exhibition of our Algarve Rotating Blade Canopy at The Landscape Show in Battersea, London, exhibiting on a stand alongside Jucuzzi Hot Tubs. With lots of interest shown in the Algarve, as well as the rest of our r

Sports facilities at a school in Rochdale will soon be of a premier standard thanks to White Horse Contractors (Northern), one of the UK’s leading natural and artificial sports ground specialists.

The company continue to go from strength to strength i

Once again, Pellenc is proving that it is technologically ahead of the field with the launch of its Excelion 2000 ‘cow-horn’ handle professional brushcutter, sold exclusively in the UK by Etesia.

The new Excelion 2000 is also part of an introductory l

A patch of young trees growing at an estate in Kent could provide clues to the kinds of trees we should plant for a warmer future in Britain.

The saplings are being grown by the Forestry Commission's Forest Research agency on the Woodland Trust's Huc

Brett Landscaping has successfully enabled a Headmaster with a side-line flair for design to pave his own success, by creating and implementing the installation of an impressive 3,000 sq m of road and footpath paving using Brett materials at Chase G

One for the diary, but early next year there will be the chance to experience hundreds of exotic butterflies after their release into the glasshouse at RHS Garden Wisley, in Surrey.

Butterflies in the Glasshouse will run from 18 January to 9 March, 2

A green-fingered council worker who single-handedly maintains one of Croydon's best parks has been crowned London's Gardener of the Year.

Terence Meredith, known as Tec, was given the award at the London in Bloom competition on September 18.

Mr Mered

The great-crested newt, the natterjack toad and the iconic Scottish wildcat, although indigenous to the country, are rarely glimpsed as their numbers decline to nearing extinction.

Their fight for survival has been given a helping hand as the Heritag

Continuing its programme of working closely with turf professionals, Sherriff Amenity, in association with Bowcom and Everris, recently held a ‘Differences in Fertilisers and release patterns’ seminar and line marking demonstration at Pembroke Colleg

Among a range of new product launches from Etesia this autumn are two high quality professional rotary mowers, two domestic pedestrian lawn mowers and a new revolutionary electric wheel barrow.

The PKCTM 46cm and LKCGM 53cm models join the Duocut rang

Gate Safe, the charity set up in 2010 (following the death of two children in separate automated gate accidents), to improve standards in safety for automated gates, is joining forces with the Joint Industry Board, which administers the Electrotechni

Golf Management students at The University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) recently had a unique opportunity to help install a new putting facility at North Highland College.

The installation, a 30ft by 15ft all-weather putting green from Huxley

Reliance Foundry Co Ltd., North America’s premier supplier of architectural and landscaping bollards, announced today that its signature bollard has been installed in recent upgrades to Boston’s famous Fenway Park. Reliance Foundry’s model R-7539 bol

The Natural History Museum in London and Malcolm Reading have launched a competition today to recreate the grounds of the museum.

The project invites teams of architects and designers to conceive an exterior setting to match the architectural splendo

The very first HortAid fund raising week will take place from 21 to 29 September and raise money to help support those in the horticultural industry.

HortAid is a new campaign initiative from Perennial, who last year helped more than 1,000 people to

Today conservation groups came together to Give Nature a Home, reintroducing sand lizards to RSPB Farnham Heath nature reserve.

Following on from an initial reintroduction in 2012, and as part of a three year project between the RSPB, Amphibian & Re

Scientists who released 1,000 weed-eating weevils into a Somerset canal to get rid of an invasive aquatic fern have declared the experiment a success.

The 2mm-long insects were dropped into the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal in July to eat up the plant

A major reorganisation of the way the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) operates has been announced.

In a statement the RHS has said that it will amalgamate its three divisions of gardens, shows and retail into one unified division.

A new role, RHS D

A female wasp spider has been found at an RPSB reserve in East Anglia for the first time, reports the BBC.

The arachnid, measuring about 2.4in (6cm) in length, was found at Lakenheath Fen, which crosses the Norfolk and Suffolk border.

Experts said th

A case of the tree disease Chalara, also known as ash dieback, has been confirmed in woodland in Somerset, near Minehead.

Somerset is the 15th county in England where Chalara has been discovered in the wider environment (forests and woodland); the ot