Marketing
Peckish £1.5m million pound campaign
Westland Horticulture’s wild bird food brand to debut biggest ever media campaign launching on TV at Christmas.
One to watch
The new face of biodiverse flowers
Meet the rising floral star, Alfie Nickerson and his burgeoning biodynamic flower company, Burnt Fen.
Awards
Garden Industry Manufacturers Award winners
The Garden Industry Manufacturer’s Association (GIMA) celebrated the best of garden retail industry at the 42nd annual Awards ceremony.
On Instagram
Must follow @westcountry_hedgelayer
Skilled hedgelayers can ascend a simple boundary hedge into high art, Paul Lamb is such a craftsman.
Innovation
Water butt wall
The Rainblock waterbutt system is designed to mounted upright up against a wall or form part of a fencing structure to store rainwater for garden usage.
Innovation
Floating solar panels
Space saving, innovative floating solar system designed specifically for horticultural industry.
On Instagram
The magic of the B3135
Granted the Stelvio Pass is impressive and a Clarkson favourite, but the Cliff Road through Cheddar Gorge is breathtaking.
People
Diacono writing new book, live on Substack
A book written in instalments over a year, penned in real time and shared live.
On Instagram
Carbon plantation
Sneaky peak into large-scale plantation of hybrid Paulownia trees planted to absorb 60 tonnes of CO2 per hectare per year.
Artisan
Thirty Gardens
UK exhibition by the accomplished painter, Francis Hamel after spending 18 months travelling and painting 30 of the UK’s most beautiful gardens.
Business
Garden design on Paris catwalk
Delicate meadow runway designed by Luciano Giubbilei for the Hermès Spring/Summer 2024 show at Paris Fashion Week.
Product Launch
STIGA launch cordless chainsaw
The manufacturer of gardening machinery and equipment launches first battery powered chainsaw.
On Instagram
A must follow @garden.johns
John Massey is a nurseryman, plant breeder, plant collector and passionate gardener with an infectious love of plants which gleams through his instagram reels.
Equipment
Speedy sharpener
Spotted on instagram @labourandwait for the pruning fiends who are not so keen on a whetstone…
Product Launch
Miscanthus sinensis ‘Boucle’
Bred in Poland, the new miscanthus has unique, crimped inflorescences of intense crimson colour.
Product Launch
New kid on the block
The new RH outdoor catalogue has dropped. A 200 page sourcebook of inspired outdoor design unlike anything we’ve seen before.
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
A must follow @nonmorrisgardens
Passionate wildflower enthusiast who climbs mountain ranges to find that one special variety….
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
STIGA launches battery-powered pruner
The manufacturer of gardening machinery and equipment launches its first-ever battery-powered pruner, the SC 100e.
