A large fire has destroyed a warehouse at Tyseley in the West Midlands belonging to an importer of rattan garden furniture.

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is calling on gardeners to help locate a beneficial garden slug that could be on the verge of extinction in the UK.

Hillview Garden Centres has sold the two sites to the charity Shaw Trust as forecast by Gardenforum last month.

The forthcoming GIMA AGM and Day Conference is set to focus on three main themes – Dobbies, Disruption and Megatrends, together offering an insightful view into the current garden retail landscape.

The southern green shield bug, pear rust and the woolly aphid were of increasing concern among gardeners calling the RHS in 2018.

The Colour Festival brings spring to your garden, patio or balcony in a flash. Begonia, Verbana, Gazania and Bougainvillea are all rich bloomers in different forms, so that they bring instant visual delight and experience to the garden.

The Food Hall at multi award-winning garden centre Webbs, Wychbold in Worcestershire has been named as a finalist in the prestigious Farm Shop and Deli Awards 2019.

Buyers from Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands, Lithuania and Dubai seek new garden and pet products at event on 27 March.

ScanCom (Vietnam), the parent company of the market-leading LifestyleGarden® outdoor furniture brand, is celebrating this week as it has been confirmed as one of the shortlisted companies at this year’s Sedex Awards.

The Juliana Urban Series comprises the Balcony, the Vertical and the City Greenhouse, all combine elegant aesthetics, high end functionality and small space adaptability offering perfect added value sales.

Buyers from Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands, Lithuania and Dubai seek new garden and pet products at event on 27 March.

Hampshire Gardencraft producers of the Dragonstone range of quality garden ornaments for the trade.

Garden Connect has launched the new webshop of Frosts Garden Centres, prior to the start of the 2019 Spring Season. The webshop is fully integrated with the OpSuite EPoS provided by DavRich.

The David Colegrave Foundation (DCF) is proud to be a supporter of the Royal Society of Biology’s (RSB) Plant Health Undergraduate Summer Studentship Programme for 2019.

In the same period that Smiemans Projecten realizes the expansion for garden centre Hansaplant, they are also building a new garden center for Hortes. Both projects are being built in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

Easy to use online Budgeting Tool offers financial confidence and control to people in horticulture.

The team at Haskins in Roundstone presented Wadars Animal Rescue with a cheque for £3,509 this week. All money raised from events held at the Roundstone centre throughout 2018.

National Garden Gift Vouchers has launched a new Gardening Hero scheme to recognise supporters of community gardening within the industry.

Smart Garden Products is delighted to confirm that a number of staff have joined Smart from Briers.

A natural progression of the FutureScape family, FutureScape Spring signed off its first show this week on a wave of positive feedback from the landscape community

Kingston Landscape Group Ltd, based in London, took the Supreme Winner Award for their project: Streatham Hill. This entry was also the winner of the Commercial Garden and Soft Landscaping categories.

The horticultural industry can look forward to welcoming more bright students to the trade with the backing of the David Colegrave Foundation (DCF) through its scholarships.