After seven happy years as a trustee of The Herb Society, and latterly as acting chairman, Gwenneth Heyking is retiring from the Board of Trustees. Read more

Writtle College horticulture student James Hayley has been awarded a national scholarship from a horticultural charity. Read more

A mother-of-two who was struck down with a potentially deadly lung condition while running her own garden maintenance business has been honoured with an award from the Worshipful Company of Gardeners. Read more

Carol Paris along with her two spaniels, Max and Murphy and other leading industry figures complete the Santa Run. Read more

The Mr Fothergill's Group has announced two new appointments to its UK sales team. Read more

The HTA has merged its events team with the PR department under the overall control of Gill Ormrod, who becomes communications manager. Read more

redheadPR, the dynamic independent public relations consultancy, have become the latest members of GIMA, the Garden Industry Manufacturers' Association. Read more

Debbie Curtis of Bosmere recently celebrated 25 years service with the company. The event was marked with a presentation and staff get together at the Crawley offices. Read more

The Notcutts team is celebrating success after scooping the title of Best Large Format Store in the annual Retail Week Interior Awards. Read more

Rosebank Landscaping has today been launched as a new division of Maidenhead-based building firm Farr & Roberts, following Head Designer Matt Keightley’s success at the 2014 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Read more

Richard Browne, until a year ago the long standing finance director of Gardman, has joined his old boss Paris Natar at Smart Garden, as sales beat target by a year. Read more

Mr Fothergill's Laura Oakes fought off the challenge from 12 colleagues to grow the heaviest pumpkin in a staff competition this year (2014).  Read more

The competition is organised by ‘The British Christmas Tree Growers Association’. Read more

Senior Horticulture Lecturer Sandra Nicholson has been made a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Horticulture. Read more

One of the UK’s leading nurseries is this month (October, 2014) celebrating its sixth successful year in partnership with a top Italian nursery. Read more

2014 has been dominated by the repositioning of the major gardening goods distributors following the demise of Solus.  The weather for once provided a good news story and towards the end of the year there was a flurry of activity from Wyevale as it picked up eight long established independent garden centres.  See the full review – which is open to all… Read more

A Writtle College postgraduate has been shortlisted for a major student award for her garden design which aims to support those facing mental health issues. Read more

Steve Harper is set to leave Bord na Mona and join Gardman at the beginning of February.  Terry Murphy will also be moving to the company. Read more

Quinton Edwards Property Consultants are proud to be celebrating their 25 year business milestone. Read more

E.P. Barrus has extended its Garden Division with the appointment of Helen Woodward as National Account Manager for WOLF-Garten and Wilkinson Sword garden tools and Energizer batteries. Read more

The Garden Media Guild Awards were held at The Savoy, London yesterday. Hosted by James Alexander Sinclair, the awards lunch drew many influential players in the gardening world. Read more

Prominent figures from the HTA and leading garden companies seek your backing as they join the London Santa Run to raise funds for Greenfingers. Read more

Shootgardening.co.uk has scooped two major titles at The 2015 Good Web Guide Awards: Gardening Website of the Year judged by a panel of industry experts and the People’s Choice Award by online public vote. Read more

2014 has been a good year for the horticultural and landscaping industry, especially for Essex based Holland Landscapes. Read more

Alyson Hayward returns to Wyevale head office, taking on a central plants role.  She has been managing Moreton Park garden centre that was acquired by the group in September. Read more

Following the success of their new product launches at Glee, Bosmere have further strengthened their management team through the promotion of Glynn Davis to the position of National Sales Manager. Read more

Staff reach for the pink in bid to raise funds for breast cancer research. Read more

Gardening legend Peter Seabrook was honoured at a special reception at the RHS Shades of Autumn Show in London last night. Read more

Green-tech is delighted to announce the promotion for Sam Woodward within the Green-tech sales team. Read more

Fiskars UK Ltd announces two key appointments in marketing to strengthen the UK team. Kerry Murfin has been appointed Trade Marketing Director and James Karanicolas as Trade Marketing Manager. Read more