Peter Beales Roses wins Gold at BBC Gardeners’ World Live 2025

Peter Beales Roses of Attleborough, Norfolk has won a Gold Medal at BBC Gardeners’ World Live 2025, adding to their earlier success at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year.

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BBC Gardeners World 2025 - GOLD

Sinclair champions industry excellence

Sinclair proudly continues its support for the National Plant Show 2025 as Seminar Stage sponsor, reinforcing its commitment to industry excellence and knowledge sharing. Read more - open to all

Diary

Taylors Bulbs awarded Premier Gold at Harrogate Flower Show

Taylors Bulbs are delighted to have been awarded Premier Gold at Harrogate Spring Flower Show 2025 for their display of Daffodils.

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Taylors Bulbs awarded Premier Gold at Harrogate Flower Show

Wyevale Nurseries to fundraise for the charity Perennial

Garden centres keen to raise money and awareness for the vital work of the horticultural industry charity Perennial can now order three fundraising plants from Wyevale Nurseries for summer delivery.

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Salvia gregii Cuello Pink

FlowerTrials: the must-visit show

In week 24, no less than 56 breeders will open their doors in The Netherlands and Germany to present the future of ornamental breeding. Read more - open to all

Register now to visit HTA National Plant Show 2025

Visitors are invited to get their free tickets now for the Horticultural Trades Association’s (HTA) National Plant Show which is back for its biggest show ever.   

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Roots to Retail - Our successful open event launches the 2025 season!

Frank P Matthews, New Leaf Plants and The Branford Webbs Plant Company welcomed customers from as far away as North Scotland and Kent to their ‘Roots to Retail’ open event last week at Evesham Football Club and New Leaf Plants.
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Blue Diamond acts to secure plant supply chain

Blue Diamond agrees strategic partnership with European Group to ensure plant supply chain keep's pace with the continued expansion.  Read more - members only

Ball Colegrave’s spectacular showcase

The Ball Colegrave Summer Showcase has been as spectacular as ever despite the weather.  This is partly because Ball’s breeding strategy… Read more - members only

Petunia Bees Knees

Dutch Spring Trials take place in week 18

Dutch Spring Trials take place in week 18 during week 18, with eight breeders in North-Holland.  Visits held by appointment only. Read more - members only

Staff take control at Majestic Trees

Majestic Trees has announced that MD Steve McCurdy and his wife Janet have sold 74% of Majestic Trees to their team via an Employee Ownership Trust. Read more - members only

Fern Snowling, Sarah Shynn, Eliot Barden, Helen Morgan, Maria Bengtsson, Carlos Guinand

Gardeners invited to help solve aphid mystery

The RHS is calling on gardeners to send in sightings of the giant willow aphid (Tuberolachnus salignus) to help learn more about this elusive species and the ways it interacts with garden plants. Read more - members only

Giant willow aphid (Tuberolachnus salignus) on Willow (Salix daphnoides) - RHS / Andrew Halstead

Allensmore reaches final for International Grower of the Year

Allensmore reaches the final 10 from growers around the world in the AIPH International Grower of the Year (IGOTY) Awards 2023. Read more - members only

New Guide to Potentially Harmful Plants

Working with specialists, the HTA has launched a new Guide to Potentially Harmful Plants. For the first time it covers the risk to pets. Read more - members only

Plants Galore in free give away of plants worth £100k

Staff shortages are forcing Devon based Plants Galore to give away £100k of plants.  Customers can collect them from their garden centres this weekend. Read more - members only

British Garden Centres and YPHA launch exclusive Begonia

British Garden Centres is thrilled to announce the exclusive launch of ‘Bountiful Pink’, a striking new begonia developed through the Young People in Horticulture Association’s (YPHA) Launch Success Challenge. Read more - open to all

BGC & YPHA Begonia Bountiful Pink

How to prune your Bloombux® in June/July

It's often a challenge to know when and how to achieve the perfect trim for plants in the garden, especially for gardening novices. While pruning some plants can be quite tricky, trimming the popular boxwood alternative, Bloombux, is simple and easy for beginners to carry out. Read more - open to all

Beautify your balcony and patio with Bloombux®

For gardeners seeking a boxwood alternative free from the dreaded box tree moth, the blooming Bloombux is the perfect choice.  Read more - open to all

Kernock Park Plants add ‘Proven Winners’ to Joy of Plants’ tools

Leading UK young plant supplier Kernock Park Plants has added the Proven Winners® range to Joy of Plants’ plant library and retail tools. Read more - open to all

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Garden Museum Spring Plant Fair 2024

The Garden Museum’s annual Spring Plant Fair returns on Sunday 13 April, gathering specialist plant nurseries and growers from around the country for a day of plant shopping, talks and workshops for city gardeners. Stalls will include Great Dixter Nursery and Beth Chatto’s Plants & Gardens, providing a rare opportunity for Londoners to shop garden plants grown by these beloved and historic nurseries.

 

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Johnsons Nurseries hosts Prosper Group for exclusive plant buyers event

Johnsons Nurseries Ltd proudly hosted members of the Prosper plant buyers’ group on February 24, 2025, for an engaging and insightful visit to their nursery. The nursery showcased its latest plant selections, sustainable initiatives, and high-quality stock.
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New Leaf to distribute Zelari Pianti

New Leaf Plants has entered into an agreement to supply garden centres and landscapers with Italian specimen plants from the renowned Italian grower Zelari. Read more - members only

Ball’s ‘Stand-Out’ Plants for 2025

Ball reveals customers’ favourite varieties that were shown at the Ball Summer Showcase in its Oxfordshire Trial Grounds. Read more - members only

Lantana Passion Fruit

Chat from the HTA National Plant Show

Chat from the aisles of the HTA National Plant Show after ‘an alright’ season include importing from Kenya, under insurance and rising Xmas tree prices. Read more - members only

Plants for Europe and Altman working together

Plants For Europe Limited (PFE) is working with California-based Altman Plants, to bring their stunning plant varieties to Europe and the UK.  Read more - members only

 Agapanthus Atomic Bloom

Impressions from the HTA National Plant Show

Most exhibitors at the HTA National Plant Show were pleased with the year to date. Stock has been selling through well; one grower stating sales were high, peaking “at Covid levels.” Read more - members only

New supplier for British grown orchids and green houseplants

Double H nurseries is on a mission to transform houseplant wholesale. The Horti House web shop will supply garden centres with British grown orchids and green houseplants. Read more - members only

The Orchid House

Fears of a poinsettia import ban subside

Reports earlier this week that the UK had put a total halt to poinsettia imports from Holland have been quashed by Defra. Read more - members only

Autumn bulb lifting delayed by torrential rain

The bulb harvesting programme is delayed 2 weeks leading to a delay in deliveries according to Taylors Bulbs, because of weather in the spring and now in August. Read more - members only

RHS warns against buying problem plants online

The RHS is reminding gardeners to only buy online plants and seeds from reputable British garden centres or nurseries to minimise the risk from new pests and diseases. Read more - members only

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