Garden centres, growers, and trade nurseries can now access an extensive plant database filled with over 300,000 photos of 75,000 different plant species through Garden Connect. This database provides detailed descriptions and more than 25 characteristics per plant...
From 19 to 23 July, Blue Diamond is exhibiting in the Floral Marquee at RHS Tatton Park Flower Show. The company has two stands, one showcasing the Fryer’s Roses brand (Stand FM 43). The other is in collaboration with the National Trust (Stand FM 34). Blue...
Profitplant BV’s Curcuma Skyline has been recognised as Best in Show at the New Plant Awards, sponsored by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). The awards took place at this year’s HTA National Plant Show, which is running today and tomorrow (20 and 21 June) at the...
Rose Peter’s Persica, grown by Chris Warner and introduced by Wharton’s Roses in Norfolk, has been awarded the inaugural Peter Seabrook Award for Best New Plant at BBC Gardeners’ World Live. Rose Peter’s Persica is a perpetual flowering climbing hybrid with a...
Wyevale Nurseries will be using an event next week to launch its promotional catalogue for 2024. Visitors to the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) National Plant Show will be able to pick up the new catalogue, which includes seven new plant promotions. Managing...
British Garden Centres has let a large nursery production unit with the capacity to produce two million retail ready plants each year. The site in Warwickshire has been acquired from Hawkesmill Nurseries, which built the glasshouse, tunnel and open-bed nursery site in...
Horticultural charity Perennial is collaborating with wholesale nursery New Leaf Plants as part of its ‘Plants for Perennial’ promotion. New Leaf Plants based in Worcestershire, UK, supplies a range of clematis and climbing plants directly to the retail garden centre...
British Garden Centres has launched its new signature Hydrangea 'Red Butterfly' at this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show, named to celebrate the company’s recent logo refresh. The Hydrangea Red Butterfly has launched as an RHS Chelsea Flower Show exclusive and will be...
Hillier has enhanced its forsythia range by introducing a new variety Forsythia x intermedia ‘Discovery’ (John Mitchell). This new variety adds variegated foliage to the flowers of this genus. The unique form has attractive, green ovate leaves, with a variegated...
A Hereford-based commercial nursery has put together a selection of plants for garden centres to follow the predicted trends for the retail sector next year, which include boldly coloured, British-grown and low maintenance plants. Carol Dickinson, head of business...
Highfield Garden World in Gloucestershire is on track to finalise its planteria redevelopment, complete with opening roof, before the end of the year. Director Tim Armstrong explains: “The new retractable roof promises to transform the way our planteria feels for...
Dunbar Garden Centre has been given the green light to construct a new opening roof canopy, an addition that owners are confident will increase turnover and profit opportunities at the site while protecting its plant sales area. The centre contacted industry...
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