Plants
New “super” apple of the future
Andreas Peil, Group Leader Pome Fruit Breeding at the Julius Kühn Institute (JKI), has bred the new PIA41 in Dresden, Germany.
Business
Garden design on Paris catwalk
Delicate meadow runway designed by Luciano Giubbilei for the Hermès Spring/Summer 2024 show at Paris Fashion Week.
Environment
Senseless vandalism of the worst kind
Iconic Sycamore Gap tree, which stood for 300 years alongside Hadrian’s Wall, was discovered cut down this morning.
Product Launch
Miscanthus sinensis ‘Boucle’
Bred in Poland, the new miscanthus has unique, crimped inflorescences of intense crimson colour.
Worth a read
UK faces tree shortage
In her column Digging Deeper, Sally Nex warns gardeners of years of tree shortages due to soaring demand.
Careers
Government gives £1 million boost to Forestry skills training
Funding has been extended to cover new courses in arboriculture, which cover the care, management and safety of amenity trees.
Product Launch
New resistant horse chestnut cultivar
Van den Berk launched Aesculus hippocastanum Treevolution ‘Cyrilles Clean’ PBR which is reportedly virtually resistant to the chestnut leaf-miner moth.
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.
Product Launch
Knoll Gardens launches new Panicum
Panicum ‘Merlot’, like many a fine wine of the same name, has been some years in the making.
Plants
International award winning lawn art
Tim Sanken of the USA wins the 2023 Allett lawn stripes competition. The 2022 competition was won by Edward Aitken of Cornbury House (pictured).
Plants
Lost carnivores return to Winmarleigh Moss
Carnivorous sundews plants have been reintroduced to Winmarleigh Moss in Lancashire.
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Flowering plants stronger than dinosaurs
Researchers have found that flowering plants escaped unscathed from the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
Worth a read
Gardens: the green line of flood defence
Climate change isn’t just about higher temperatures and heatwaves.
Product Launch
Chiltern Seeds launch bulb collection
Best known for selling seeds for 48 years, the Chiltern Seeds has decided to include bulbs to their offering.
Plants
Invasive Alien Species major threat states IPBES
From the estimated 37,000 introduced alien species to regions and biomes around the world, 3,500 pose major global threats to nature, economy, food security and human health.
Gardens
Hiroshima atomic bomb seeds planted
Ginkgo seeds from trees that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima will be planted at Oxford Botanic Garden as symbols of peace.
Environment
Woodland Trust petition to save ancient trees
Most of our ancient trees are not legally protected, the Trust is urging the Government to change that.
Environment
Defra launches new consultation on protecting hedgerows
The new consultation seeks views on the best way to maintain and improve existing environmental protections around hedgerows, as well as inform Defra’s approach to enforcement.
Business
Update Border Target Operating Model
The Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) sets out a model for the import of Sanitary and Phytosanitary goods, which includes plants and plant products.
Plants
Urban trees focus of competition
The Tree of the Year competition organised by the Woodland Trust, shines a spotlight on ancient trees in urban locations.
