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WHILE this summer continues to surprise with warm sunny days in most areas, it's worth planning for when autumn finally hits us.Continue reading...

Architecture fest Open House London is to turn some of its focus on green spaces this year by showing off 50 landscapes.Continue reading...

Architecture fest Open House London is to turn some of its focus on green spaces this year by showing off 50 landscapes.Continue reading...

One of the country's largest herb growers, VHB Herbs of West Sussex, is likely to feature in My Tasty Travels with Lynda Bellingham on ITV1 at 4pm this afternoon.Continue reading...

Buckinghamshire Golf Club in Denham says it has cut its water bill by up to £10,000 after upgrading - but not replacing - a 20-year-old irrigation system.Continue reading...

How to get $100m, that's the question. People claiming to be top Nigerian businessmen take one well-known route. There's also, of course, Euromillions. You never know your luck. Or finally, like Joshua David and Robert Hammond – who quite fancied building a completely new public park in the...

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You can't garden without being an optimist. So, despite the fact that I'm still waiting for the slug-ravaged remains of our tobacco plants to move on from the state in which I planted them out in May, I've already started on a new round of seed sowing. There's a big bunch of flowers, wonderful...

Judges of the Four Oaks Trade Show new product awards have selected the winners from the 111 products entered.Continue reading...

A golf course manager told Saltex visitors today how he used tents and hot air blowers to save a famous course from annihilation by icy weather two winters running.Continue reading...

Helicopters will this month begin to transport around 300,000 plants onto hills in northern England to restore moorland.Continue reading...

Defra farming minister and Cambridgeshire farmer Jim Paice has followed environment secretary Caroline Spelman through the out door in the ministerial reshuffle.Continue reading...

The highly-damaging Phytophthora ramorum pathogen has been found on larch trees in South East England for the first time, according to the Forestry Commission.Continue reading...

A meta-analysis of 240 studies comparing organic and conventional produce has found little evidence of higher nutritional value in organic foods.Continue reading...

The 500 year-old Great Barn at Great Dixter in East Sussex and three adjoining 19th century brick built Oast Houses have opened to visitors for the first time. Their restoration is the culmination of the 8 million four-year conservation project at the garden, created by the late Christopher...

BGCI is conducting a survey of botanic gardens to asess levels of understanding and mechanisms for implementing the access and benefit sharing provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity.Continue reading...

Garden centres need to try to extend the season and put more effort into selling high quality plants, gardening writer Peter Seabrook has said.Continue reading...

HARD to believe, but autumn is almost upon us. And if you want a good show of flowers come March or April, most spring bulbs are best planted during September.Continue reading...

GfK figures show DIY/gardening was 0.6 per cent down in July 2012 compared to July 2011 at 1.1 billion. Year-to date sales are 6.3 per cent down at 6.5 billion. July 2011-June 2012 market value is 10bn, down 4.1 per cent. Monthly changes July 2012 one per cent down June 2012 nine per cent down...

Amenity horticulture could face a major accident when the Sustainable Use Directive and Water Framework Directive comes into force because operators are not up to speed on best practice, an industry leader told Saltex this morning.Continue reading...