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Oakwell Hall Country Park is one of several gold award winners in this year's Yorkshire in Bloom competition.Continue reading...

Smart new bins are to be installed in parks, green spaces and roads across Telford & Wrekin as part of a £70,000 cleaner-environment scheme run by the local authority.Continue reading...

Fiskars has launched a new brand after combining Sankey with its German sister company Ebert to form international label Ebert Sankey, which will sell container gardening products for indoor and outdoor use.Continue reading...

Windermere Golf Club has extended its playing season and boosted the bottom line by switching seed to a gritty perennial ryegrass blend that can handle divotting of tees.Continue reading...

Hampton Court Palace is trying to coax more families through its portals with a new garden themed on myth and legend.Continue reading...

BY the end of the summer, the combined effect of children, dogs, garden furniture and outdoor fun and games - not to mention periodic droughts and downpours - means that most family lawns are looking and feeling a tad worse for wear. So treat your grass to an all-over programme of autumn care...

The names of the 40 members of BALI who have won awards in this year's BALI National Landscape Awards in association with Horticulture Week and headline sponsor Rigby Taylor have been revealed.Continue reading...

Sales for the week to 18 September were generally flat but chrysanthemums and autumn flowering plants continue to sell strongly.Continue reading...

Alan Titchmarsh products were prominent at Glee, where trade body GIMA was suggesting ITV had commissioned two more series of the presenter's Spun Gold-produced programme Love Your Garden.Continue reading...

Forestry Commission England has launched a new apprenticeship scheme that will employ and train 20 apprentices. Each apprentice will be given the opportunity to learn and work their way to professional qualifications and longer-term employment opportunities within the forestry sector.Continue...

Staff at Millbrook Garden Centre in Gravesend are using fruit and veg grown on-site in their Greencafé this autumn.Continue reading...

A specialist section of the Amsterdam show next month will look at how the factors of plant genetics, physiology, water, nutrient and climate management contribute to yield quantity and quality, and to plant health.Continue reading...

Batsford Arboretum has employed its first apprentice in almost 25 years.Continue reading...

Dianthus grower Allwoods has put its West Sussex nursery up for sale after moving to a new site in Surrey.Continue reading...

A group of former homeless people who created a highly acclaimed rooftop garden in London are studying for a professional horticulture qualification at Eden Project in Cornwall.Continue reading...

A children's nursery in Shropshire says it has been banned from taking pre-schoolers to an allotment for health and safety reasons.Continue reading...

The final draft of the second edition of the International Agenda for Botanic Gardens in Conservation is now available for final consultation. Comments to be sent to BGCI by 15 October.Continue reading...

AS YOU grow older it makes sense to plan a garden to cope with the downside of ageing so you can continue to enjoy it and not have to work quite so hard to keep it up to scratch.Continue reading...

1. The Well-Tempered Garden by Christopher Lloyd £12.99, amazon.co.uk Reading the late Christopher Lloyd is like walking round the garden with the great man himself. Out of print but available secondhand.Continue reading...

Westland has launched Even-Flo lawn seed spreader at Glee.Continue reading...