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The National Trust has announced plans to step-up its commitment to heritage horticulture with the launch of its new Heritage Gardening Programme.

The programme will for the first time offer comprehensive training for all of the conservation charity’

John Ledwidge - Grounds Manager for reigning Premier League champions Leicester City, adheres to an ICL structured nutritional programme for both the stadium and the training ground. Outside of the programme, he also relies on a range of ICL products

Hundreds of thousands of people have called on the government to grant legal protection to the UK’s parks, amid growing fears that the green spaces are in danger of being lost.

More than 180,000 people submitted evidence to the communities and local

When you think of the illegal trade in endangered species what do you envisage? Rhino horn? Elephant tusks? Coral maybe?

The world’s media feeds us images of tiger skins, turtle shells, mounds of ivory being burned and rhinos shot and bloodied with t

Research on 179 parks and gardens created by celebrated landscape designer Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown has now been made available to the public at www.parksandgardens.org, thanks to painstaking work by volunteer researchers from the County Gardens T

Garden ponds are playing a role in the spread of deadly frog diseases across the UK, a study suggests.

Ranaviruses can infect amphibians, reptiles and fish. In the UK, they have devastated common frog populations.

This research suggests that the intr

BUILDING supplies group Wolseley is to cut 800 jobs in the UK as it takes drastic action to address tough market conditions.

The group, which has its UK headquarters in Leamington Spa, saw its trading profit fall 18% to £74m.

It will close around 80

A "colossal" wasp nest the size of a "barrel" with a tunnel attached has been found in the attic of a house.

The homeowner near Corby discovered the one-metre wide nest (3.2ft) while renovating the property, which had been empty for two years, as rep

Mike and Paula Warman are proud to announce the upcoming launch of The Landscapers Circle.

This business is a service dedicated to bringing in more customers and more money for landscapers across the UK.

With targeted marketing campaigns, The Landscape

Increasing the area of native woodlands, including the conversion of non-native conifer woodland to native woodland, where appropriate, is an aim of the UK Forestry Standard Guidelines on Biodiversity.

Now a new Research Note from the Forestry Commis

As my family will happily tell you, I am a bit of a hypochondriac. At the first sign of any worrying symptom, I think the worst.

At least I have the self-awareness to know it, and to realise that it’s a tendency that extends to other aspects of my li

Crazy paving is back on the rise throughout the UK. There is now a wide range of choice when it comes to choosing crazy pavers, with both purpose made and recycled varieties available. Although purpose made crazy pavers can provide a great finish, fo

In the first eight months of this year the STIHL Group increased turnover by 5.4 percent to EUR 2.408 billion. This growth was fueled by strong unit sales. Had foreign exchange rates remained at the same level as last year, growth would have been as

The fate of London’s proposed garden bridge has been placed in jeopardy after the city’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, announced a formal inquiry into whether the controversial project is worth the £60m of public money pledged to it.

Dame Margaret Hodge, the La

Waste crime is the “new narcotics” according to the head of the Environment Agency (EA), offering huge profits as the authorities race to catch up with the damage caused to society.

Illegal waste activity costs England £1bn a year and more than 1,000

Unpublished field trials by pesticide manufacturers show their products cause serious harm to honeybees at high levels, leading to calls from senior scientists for the companies to end the secrecy which cloaks much of their research.

The research, co

I miss seeing the back end of a bug.

This summer I sensed a disturbance of some sort. There were hardly any ladybirds, almost no butterflies (only the odd cabbage white) and barely a wasp. Very, very odd.

I noticed early on that the orchard would cro

The Asian hornet’s long-feared arrival on the UK mainland has been confirmed, government scientists have said, with ecologists warning of dire consequences for honeybees if the species is not swiftly eliminated.

The hornets eat honeybees and have bec

JB Friday hacked at a rain-sodden tree with a small axe, splitting open a part of the trunk. The wood was riven with dark stripes, signs of a mysterious disease that has ravaged the US’s only rainforests – and just one of the plagues that are devasta

A £60million factory outlet centre could be open in Ashchurch within three years after being given the green light by the Government.

Developer Robert Hitchins Ltd has been granted outline planning permission by Tewkesbury Borough Council for its pla