Thompson & Morgan is pleased to announce the appointment of Bryan Magrath as Chief Executive in planned succession from John May who, after 17 years in post will remain on the Board as Deputy Chairman. Read more

Sheila Jackson has this month (June, 2014) joined an exclusive group of individuals in ‘the 25 year service club’ at one of the UK’s leading commercial nurseries. Read more

Glencrest Seatex are very pleased to announce that George Cubrilo at Summit Sales has been appointed as sales agents for the North West of England. Read more

Former buying director of Haskins, Philip Evason, has been awarded the MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list for his work in the Territorial Army. Read more

Sisters Doreen Pettitt and Susan Hawes have recently both clocked up working 25 years for Kentford, Newmarket, seedsman Mr Fothergill's. Read more

Kyle Ross from Pershore College has recently (June, 2014) been presented with Wyevale Nurseries’ Peter Williamson Travel Award. Read more

A Cambridgeshire primary school's gardening club is hoping to lay on special 'home-grown' lunches and a strawberry picnic for parents this summer using produce grown from seeds and plants donated by seed company Mr Fothergill's. Read more

This week Kernock Park Plants have announced the appointment of Falmouth University graduate Reuben Stone as their new Marketing Co-ordinator. Read more

The death has been announced of Chris Self, chairman of Whitehall Garden Centres and one of the pioneers of the industry.  His funeral will be held on Thursday 5th June. Read more

Tim Woodland is to leave DeRee and Simple Pleasures and move to Kapiteyn in September. Read more

Respected plantsman and horticultural author Graham Rice is now writing a regular blog for Mr Fothergill's. Read more

Danny Adamson has teamed up with Kärcher as the company seeks to become a significant supplier of garden watering products to UK garden centres. See more... Read more

John Hillier joined Jean Hillier, the wife of Robert Hillier and the author of Hillier: The Plants, The People, The Passion, on the Hillier Exhibit for a group photograph, surrounded by their children and grandchildren  to cut the specially created Hillier 150th anniversary cake. Read more

Fifteen members of staff at a plant nursery in Hereford have this month (May, 2014) signed up to take part in a 30 mile sponsored walk to raise money for a children’s charity. Read more

Mr Fothergill's territory manager Larry White reached a landmark 21 years with the company in 2014, making him one of the Suffolk seedsman's longest serving staff members. Read more

Lansbury Bridge School is creating a very special sensory environment throughout its school grounds with help from Gardman, which has donated £500 worth of garden and wild bird care products. Read more

The three senior managers at a family-run, independent garden centre in Somerset have been given new roles in the award-winning business this month (June, 2014). Read more

Stormafit Ltd are pleased to announce the appointment of a new sales agent for Yorkshire/Northumberland. Read more

A landscape designer, writer and ex-Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum will be the guest speaker next month (July, 2014) during an open day at one of the UK’s leading commercial nurseries. Read more

Garden centre owners and managers who have not yet had their Garden Centre Association (GCA) annual inspections are being reminded that they will receive a visit this week (up to and including June 13, 2014). Read more

Sponsor Adam Dunnett and a team of 20 from Wyevale as they set out on their 30 mile trek across the hills of Shropshire & Herefordshire on the Mortimer Trail. They have already raised £2500 for Greenfingers.  Update:  They comleted the trip in 15 hours and raised £4500. Read more

Austin Jarrett, managing director of Turfmech Machinery Limited based at Hixon in Staffordshire, receives The Michael Dwyer Memorial Prize from Professor Mark Kibblewhite, the president of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers, at a special ceremony at Cranfield University on 21 May. Read more

War hero calls on the nation to help Britain bloom. Read more

One of the UK’s leading commercial nurseries will be unveiling its plans for the future including a new logo and branding at the HTA National Plant Show next month (June, 2014). Read more

RHS Chelsea Flower Show designer will help get more secondary schools gardening. Read more

This June, Deco-Pak’s marketing manager Craig Hall will be taking on the inaugural Forget Me Not 500 ‘banger rally’ challenge, which will see him drive from Huddersfield to Paris (and back!) in a £500 ‘old banger’, all in aid of the Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice charity. Read more

Retired servicemen and representatives from The Royal British Legion planted poppy seeds at a garden centre in Devon yesterday (May 20, 2014) to commemorate the First World War. Read more

Hillier Nurseries & Garden Centres has secured its legacy as the most successful exhibitor in the history of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show with a 69th consecutive Chelsea Gold Medal. Read more

Smart Solar has reorganised its sales team to manage the sharp increase in sales of its products with garden centres this season and in anticipation of new product launches planned for 2015. Read more

Ian Forman has taken up the role of assistant manager for the NSTS.  Before joining the NSTS team Ian managed a 2,300 acre arable farm in Norfolk, having previously studied at Writtle College in Essex. Read more