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Father and son duo Mike and Joe Smith, who invented the Greanbase Wheelbarrow Booster, have turned down an offer of £50,000 from Dragon's Den millionaires Hilary Devey and Duncan Ballantyne.Continue reading...

Jones Lang LaSalle is selling off the equipment owned by Highland Heathers in an online auction.Continue reading...

Glee director Nick Davison has said suppliers at last week's event were concerned about the "lethargy" of garden centre buyers that failed to attend the show, but he concluded the event was "more than reasonable" given the poor year the industry has had.Continue reading...

Pitches used by Olympic football teams at universities and colleges across the UK were transformed by a project team led by the Sports Turf Research Institute (STRI).Continue reading...

A Lebanese cedar branch killed a New Zealander at Kew Gardens on 23 September, West London Coroners' Court has heard. The 31-year-old from Wellington named Erena Louise Wilson died instantly after the Cedrus libani branch fell in 30mph winds on 23 September, the court heard. Inspector Simon...

Miracle Design and Play has won a contract to overhaul a special play area for five to 10-year-old children at Woodgrange, Southend.Continue reading...

Horticulture and landscaping students at Oatridge College in West Lothian have been trialling Superoots Air Pots for the past year.Continue reading...

Retailers reported a slight rise in sales volumes in the year to September, along with the expectation that growth will strengthen somewhat next month, industry body the CBI has reported.Continue reading...

Swaythorpe Growers, the grower consortium which markets the regional frozen pea brand Yorkshire Peas, has landed a deal to supply all 28 Booths stores in the north of England.Continue reading...

BGCI and the Korean Association of Botanic Gardens and Arboreta (KABGA) have signed a Memoradum of Understanding to work together on plant conservation in Korea and throughtout the region.Continue reading...

A dilapidated Victorian conservatory is to rise again at Wentworth Castle Gardens in South Yorkshire, after a lengthy fundraising effort finally reached its target.Continue reading...

An E.coli outbreak in one of Birmingham's most popular parks has spurred worried council leaders to urge parents to keep children away from the much-loved landscape.Continue reading...

Glasgow City Council hopes to give itself a winning boost in its bid to host the 2018 Youth Olympic Games by launching a fast-track major regeneration programme.Continue reading...

Progressive public funding cuts to green space are to be tackled at a conference due to take place at the end of October.Continue reading...

Fruit tree specialist Blackmoor Nurseries is using a system that removes the need for the manual transfer of customer orders from its ecommerce websites into its parcel despatch system.Continue reading...

An E.coli outbreak in one of Birmingham's most popular parks has spurred worried council leaders to urge parents to keep children away from the much-loved landscape.Continue reading...

The London Orchard Project will plant up 100 trees of a new apple variety in over 40 "orchards" in public spaces this winter, it has announced.Continue reading...

Glasgow City Council hopes to give itself a winning boost in its bid to host the 2018 Youth Olympic Games by launching a fast-track major regeneration programme.Continue reading...

An adventure park and farm attraction in Somerset is set to have a £2m garden centre built on its 20ha site.Continue reading...

A brand new variety of apple has been bred to celebrate the growing trend of planting community orchards in the capital.Continue reading...