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The 2013 Conservation Foundation's Gardening Against The Odds competition has been launched.

The competition is run in memory of Elspeth Thompson, the much loved Sunday Telegraph gardening columnist who died in spring 2010 following a bout of severe

Hundreds of people are expected to turn out to help pick weeds along the River Dee and its tributaries in north Wales.

Several organisations have united to arrange their own "Dee day invasion" which is targeting non-native species like Japanese knotw

Here is a quick catch up on some of the recent news headlines.

Alys Fowler: gardening makes you happy
I'm not trying to steal Oliver Burkeman's shtick, but if you're feeling a little blue, can I suggest you pull some weeds?

Climate change poses grave

During the summer your lawn will play host to heightened levels of footfall. Children fresh out of school playing sports late into the evening, a series of social gatherings and a lack of rain can you leave your lawn looking patchy and parched. Howev

This year's weather has seen rain alternating with spells of warm, dry sunshine - the ideal conditions for encouraging grass, weeds, saplings and other unwanted plants to grow strong and lush. Holywell-Cum-Needingworth Parish Council in Cambridgeshir

According to a new report from the Payments Council and Link, which runs the UK's cash machines, the volume of cash payments rose by 200 million in 2012, reversing the year-on-year decline over the past decade.

The cash machine remains the most popul

New mixed media work by Fiona Campbell and Kitty Hillier, on exhibition at Walcot Chapel, Bath

Award-winning artists Kitty Hillier and Fiona Campbell are exhibiting a series of new work in a show entitled ‘Blurred Edges’ at Walcot Chapel Gallery, Wal

(image: Garden Designer Phil Stovell)

Phil Stovell is a garden designer based in Somerset.

Not only has Phil set up his business in a recession, to add to the challenge, he has also relocated from Hampshire.

Phil Voice asks Phil a few questions abou

Cuts to the environment budget announced in Wednesday's spending review prove the need for a radical rethink on how we protect our threatened wildlife, the RSPB has said.

Alongside several other Government departments, the Department for Environment,

The Agency's Challenges and Choices consultation runs for six months until 22 December, 2013.

The

Sir Nicholas Bacon Bt OBE DL has been elected as President of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). Sir Nicholas has been Treasurer since 1 July 2010.

Sir Nicholas succeeds Elizabeth Banks DL, who has been president of the RHS since July 2010.

Sir N

If you attended the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and saw the Stop the Spread show garden, sponsored by The Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera), cost details have been published.

The total cost of the exhibit was £95,000 with a breakdown of:

Design

Sherriff Amenity, one of the leading turf care and sports equipment suppliers in the UK, has supplied a range of products to Beversbrook Sports and Community Centre in Calne, Wiltshire. The facility is one of the leading sports facilities in the Sout

Sue Illman, president of the Landscape Institute, has criticised the Farrell Review as backward looking and too inwardly focused.

She was responding to the call for evidence issued by the Farrell Review of Architecture and the Built Environment. Illm

A study by Greenpeace of Chinese herbs has found many contain illegal and hazardous chemicals.

Once growing in forests and only picked at certain times of the year, Chinese herbs are now grown on an industrial scale and reliant on the use of pesticid

The Health and Safety Executive has published its Pesticides Forum Annual Report 2012, which looks at the use and trends of pesticide use in the UK.

Covering the work of farmers and commercial users of pesticides, the report highlights how the wet we

A project that transformed neglected land into a popular community garden has earned national recognition.

Mill Street Garden in Farington has been named national runner-up in the community-led design category of the 2013 Street Design Awards, a comp

CAMON’s top turf cutter is is about to hit the limelight when it stars in the new series of the peaktime show, ‘Love Your Garden’, with Alan Titchmarsh, which begins on 25th June at 8pm on ITV1. An effective, self-propelled machine that cuts strips

In a bid to dramatically improve the playing characteristics of the green at Laguna Beach Lawn Bowling Club in California, a SISIS Auto Rotorake MK5 pedestrian heavy duty de-thatcher has been purchased.

US Open Bowls winner Joe Regan has travelled the

Leading natural and artificial sportsground contractors White Horse Contractors are pleased to announce the appointment of Gary Kneller as their new Managing Director.

Gary originally joined the company as a graduate in 1994 and worked his way up thro