Squire’s Garden Centres in Shepperton has donated £2,889 to the Charley Paige Trust. Squire’s gave 20% of the profits from their Buzzy Bumbles soft play hive to the charity. Read more

Perrywood Garden Centre has joined Marks Hall Gardens & Arboretum and REco Store to set up a programme to encourage schools and all people in the area to plant trees as part of National tree week. Read more

As part of this week’s National Tree Week activities (23 November – 1 December), the HTA has partnered with The Tree Council and the Daily Mail to use the National Garden Gift Voucher scheme to encourage tree sales through HTA member businesses. Read more

The Hawkesmill Nurseries team know just how important it is to make a firm commitment to their customers of offering eco-friendly trays and pots for their plants and combines traditional heritage with the modern needs of today when it comes to 'green' growing innovations for their plants. Read more

Greenfingers Charity, the only UK charity that designs and builds gardens in children’s hospices, has designated much needed funds to extend and update the Remembrance Garden at Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People in the East Midlands. Read more

Once again, the team at Mr Fothergill’s Seeds have donned their finest ties to help raise money for BBC Children in Need - an idea which came about as Tim Jeffries, Mr Fothergill’s Commercial Director is the last and only person to ever wear a tie in the office! Read more

It was a case of “something borrowed, something green” for Deco-Pak’s Craig Hall at his recent wedding as he and his new wife, Debbie, raised over £1,200 for Greenfingers Charity thanks to generous donations from guests and families. Read more

Coton Manor Garden in Northamptonshire has been named the Nation’s Favourite Garden to visit. Read more

The Scottish city of Perth has been awarded top prize and crowned ‘Champion of Champions’ in the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) 55^th annual Britain in Bloom community gardening competition. Read more

Zest 4 Leisure is proud to announce that its employees have raised over £15,000 for Hope House and Tŷ Gobaith, the company’s chosen charity for 2019. Read more

A Despatch and Stock Controller at one of the UK’s leading commercial nurseries in Hereford will take part in a sleep out next month to help raise money for a homeless charity. Read more

Each of Squire’s sixteen garden centres across the South East has been engaged in friendly competition designing a garden that showcases why they love gardening. Read more

Don’t worry if you can’t join Perennial for their 180th Anniversary Festival Dinner on 11 October, you can join the fun and help raise funds for people in horticulture by placing a bid in the online auction Read more

Perrywood Sudbury was bought from Wyevale by the directors of Essex-based Perrywood Garden Centre, and had its first day of trading on 25 September 2018. Read more

The Gardens Group has announced open evening dates for the award-winning Christmas displays at all three of its garden centres, with top secret themes now taking shape. Read more

To celebrate National Tree Planting Week, Green-tech invited eight Level 2 Arboriculture students from Askham Bryan College to their premises in North Yorkshire for a practical tree planting session. Read more

Dobbies says that its underlying sales are around £300m after acquisitions and 5% like for like growth. Chairman Andrew Bracey says it will look to float on the Stock Exchange “in a year or so”. Read more

A number of Staffordshire dignitaries and guests from across the horticultural industry celebrated as a stand of 20 elm trees was planted at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. This event marked the first official planting as part of Hillier Trees’ campaign; ‘re-elming the British countryside’.  Read more

The sale of one of Vitax’s leading gardening products has helped to grow the funds of a national charity by over £11,000. Read more

An exciting new collaboration between Frank P Matthews and The Japanese Sakura Project aims to plant thousands of Japanese Flowering Cherries across Britain over the next two years. Read more

A Despatch and Stock Controller at one of the UK’s leading commercial nurseries in Hereford took part in a sleep out last Thursday (November 14, 2019) and helped raise £1,599.89 for a homeless charity. Read more

Support for people in horticulture who are feeling the festive strain is available from Perennial this Christmas. Help with Christmas food and presents for children who would otherwise go without can be requested online. No-one should feel alone or unsupported at Christmas. Be a festive friend this year by telling colleagues and clients about Perennial.  Read more

Late last week (Thursday, 31st October) friends and supporters of Greenfingers Charity came together for another wonderful night of celebrations and vital fundraising at the charity’s annual FUNdraising dinner. Read more

Work has commenced at Laylocks Garden Centre near Worcester, where a 470m² extension is under construction.

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A new Greenfingers Charity therapeutic garden at Grace House, Sunderland was officially opened by the Mayor of Sunderland on Monday (21st October). This inspiring new garden will provide a peaceful place for relaxation and enjoyment for the seriously ill children and their families that call Grace House ‘home’ Read more

Ealier this year, the popular Haskins Garden Centre based in Crawley opened the doors to its temporary building at the Snowhill site. Read more

Over the summer, Mr Fothergill’s ran a competition to grow the largest sunflower head. The competition was open to anyone and any type of sunflower could be grown. Read more

An estimated 60,000 litres of soup will be served up by schools, youth and community groups taking part in the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) Big Soup Share this week (7^th – 13^th October). Read more

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and Osborne held a topping out ceremony this week (Tuesday 24 September) to mark the completion of the steel structure for the new National Centre for Horticultural Science and Learning at RHS Garden Wisley, Surrey. Read more

Green-tech invited its customers and suppliers to help celebrate its 25^th anniversary at a VIP open day last week. Read more