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Dutch promotional organisation Plant Publicity Holland (PPH) will cease to exist from 31 December.Continue reading...

One of Scotland s leading independent landscaping businesses, Findlay Clark Landscapes (Aberdeen), has been placed in liquidation. The company, which had a turnover of around 1.5m and 31 full- and part-time staff, was hit by the recession and a shortage of skilled staff. The business has stopped...

Results of a six-year independent study to find the best blend of grass seed for golf courses have been published.Continue reading...

More than 50 of the world s top pole climbers will arrive at APF 2012 from 13-15 September at Ragley Estate, Alcester, Warwickshire to compete in the Husqvarna World 25m Pole Climbing Championships. This biannual competition involves the climbers racing against the clock to climb two giant 80ft...

Garden centre sales from 20-26 August, which include most of the bank holiday weekend, show sales are about six per cent up overall on 2011.Continue reading...

The Garden Centre Association says it is keen to move back to the Horticultural Trades Association offices by the end of the year - five years after the HTA asked the GCA to leave its Theale premises to find a new home.Continue reading...

PELARGONIUMS and fuchsias are killed by frost, so they need to be kept indoors over winter. But instead of clogging up your windowsills with big tatty old plants, take cuttings instead.Continue reading...

PELARGONIUMS and fuchsias are killed by frost, so they need to be kept indoors over winter. But instead of clogging up your windowsills with big tatty old plants, take cuttings instead. Do it now and you'll have strong young plants ready to plant out next May. The technique involved is a good...

Anyone who has struggled during this year's seemingly endless torrential rain to grow lettuces or cabbages without their crops being obliterated by slugs and snails will have tried every method they can think of to protect their plants. But experts have warned that gardeners who use coffee...

"So lately," says Rob, gazing into the middle distance, "I've been thinking that the problem is that perhaps it needs to have a sort of centrepiece. Like a giant rock." My neighbours and I are having a gin and tonic. There has been some discussion about whether gin and tonic is permitted under...

BANK holiday traffic is enough to put even the most enthusiastic garden visitor off venturing onto the road, but if you take a look on the National Gardens Scheme website (www.ngs.org.uk) the chances are there will be something local to see.Continue reading...

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The enormous heads of Allium schubertii, at least 25cm across, are still standing in the garden, though they flowered in June. This is one of the great advantages of this particular allium: the seedheads last a phenomenally long time. The soft greyish-mauve sphere gradually bleaches to the...

The garden media has suffered weakened levels of interest, while new BBC One gardening TV show The Flowerpot Gang has been hit by critics.Continue reading...

Strawberries grown in a clear mould to give them a distinctive heart-shape have gone on sale on the Continent.Continue reading...

The Health and Safety Executive has launched a panel to look at advice given by non-regulators such as insurance companies, health-and-safety consultants and employers to determine whether "sensible and proportionate" decisions have been made.Continue reading...

Clematis 'Princess Kate', entered by J. van Zoest from Boskoop, has won best new plant at Plantarium 2012 in Boskoop, the Netherlands.Continue reading...

"Over 1m worth of plant is stolen every week across the UK and Ireland and just five per cent is ever recovered," said sales director Yvette Henshall-Bell. "This will protect thousands of machines and cut insurance premiums by up to 45 per cent." She said all JCB s mini and midi excavators the...

So-called "play streets" are to be trialled in the London Borough of Hackney over the next year.Continue reading...

The garden media has been hit by poor levels of interest, with new BBC One gardening TV show The Flowerpot Gang being slammed by critics.Continue reading...