Design
Tom Stuart-Smith to create a new garden for Tate Britain
Tate Britain announced that Tom Stuart-Smith Studio, in collaboration with architects Feilden Fowles, has been selected to transform the landscape in front of the gallery.
Health
Gardens and Health Week: The uplifting impact of gardens
To mark Gardens and Health Week (4th-12th May), the National Garden Scheme brings together all that is good about gardens.
People
New Year’s Honours List
Horticulture (and closely related) industry representations amongst those honoured in the New Year’s Honours List 2024.
Awards
Winners: Association of Professional Landscapers 2024 Awards
The annual awards celebrate and recognise outstanding landscaping carried out by members of the Association of Professional Landscapers (APL).
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Collaboration
Biochar brand, Carbon Gold announce partnership with Westland Horticulture
The new Carbon Gold & Westland Horticulture partnership will provide a range of biochar enriched compost products to conventional garden retailers for the first time.
Exhibitions
Damien Hirst: The Secrets
The Secrets by Damien Hirst consist of a series of eight unique prints that depict thriving, flourishing gardens based on works from his latest series, The Secret Gardens Paintings.
Wildlife
Alarm bells ring as the Big Butterfly Count 2024 reveals lowest numbers on record
Wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation has declared a national ‘Butterfly Emergency’, with results of the 2024 Big Butterfly Count showing a marked and hugely concerning decline in numbers.
Awards
Tom Howard wins BSME award for The Garden
Britain’s best editors, art directors and columnists were crowned at the 2023 annual British Society of Magazine Awards (BSME).
Artisan
Patrick Dougherty: The magic of sticks
With just sticks and saplings, sculpture artist, Patrick Dougherty creates the most incredible, ephemeral installations, showcasing the beauty of the natural world.
Tourism
Silver jubilee London Open Gardens celebratory events
Marking its silver jubilee, London Open Gardens are celebrating with a special set of guided walks and cycle tours for garden lovers, history buffs and the curious.
On Instagram
Arboreal eye candy
Clive Nichols has been set loose in the New Wood tree nursery in the rolling hills of South Hams in Devon.
RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2024
RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2024
New features at the 2024 RHS Malvern Spring Festival, themed ‘Gardening for Change’.
Careers
2024 application for LSA Fellowship scheme open
The Fellowship programme helps cultivate and mature prospective industry leaders to safeguard the industry’s future.
Media
The Underground is the Glee 2024 official podcast partner
Throughout Glee, the partnership will bring a series of podcasts to deliver insightful garden industry expertise.
Business
Seoint Nurseries embraces peat-free production
After years of trials, Seoint Nurseries Ltd. in Wales becomes one first commercial growers to embraced peat-free.
Plants
Digitalis purpurea Apple Blossom wins Best in Show at 2024 HTA National Plant Show
Bransford Webbs new foxglove, Digitalis purpurea Apple Blossom was awarded Best in Show at the New Plant Awards at the 2024 HTA National Plant Show.
Innovation
Revolutionary solar innovation could eliminate need for solar farms
Oxford University Physics Department scientists develop revolutionary approach to generate increasing amounts of solar electricity without the need for silicon-based solar panels.
Local Heroes
Over £30,000 raised for Greenfingers
The funds were raised at the Greenfingers Charity Fundraising Dinner, hosted by Patron’s Jim Carter and Imelda Staunton in aid of the children’s hospice garden charity.
Product Launch
Mylands x Jinny Blom
Inspired by the landscape, Jinny Blom has designed a collection of twelve paint colours for outside and inside for Mylands.
Job
Senior Landscape Architect: Dan Pearson Studio
Dan Pearson Studio is looking recruit an ambitious Senior Landscape Architect with 5 to 10 years’ experience to fill a key role in the influential landscape and garden design practice.