Alumni membership
The sky is the limit for drone enthusiasts and professionals as the UK’s leading drone training experts launches its membership package. Rusta’s ‘Alumni’ membership offers exclusive benefits and discounts across
HORTICULTURE
New chipper website
The team behind the distribution of Jensen woodchippers in the UK has launched a website showcasing the range of chippers available to industry professionals across the country. With a simple-to-navigate
Busy attendance schedule
Green-tech has released its events calendar, highlighting the company’s many attendances at landscaping exhibitions and events across the UK in 2018, including: Specifi, Glasgow | 4 September FutureScape Scotland, Edinburgh
Revitalised Glee exhibition
During 44 years as the go-to event for the garden retail industry, Glee (10-12 September, NEC Birmingham) has undergone many changes. Reflective of the need to keep retail environments fresh
Taupe is the new black
Following increasing attention in the media on single-use plastics a group of key UK growers, and representatives from the HTA, seized the initiative last week to discuss the future of
The Pasture rejuvenated
The Pasture (Fairways) Sports Complex’s astroturf surface is a hub for sport in the community of Sherburn-in-Elmet, North Yorkshire. A true
Continue to Learn Scholarship 2019
Applications are now open for the ICL Continue to Learn Scholarship 2019. Now in its third year, ICL and BIGGA are seeking five BIGGA members to take up the 2019
Versatile and compact
The Club Company, which owns and operates 13 country clubs across the UK, has taken delivery of two Ventrac 4500 compact tractors with Contour mowing deck and blowers attachments. Chris
New turf for children
The Early Years Foundation Stage outside environment at Bedale Church of England Primary School in North Yorkshire has been given a luxurious finish with some help from Green-tech. The children’s
Exhibit at Rail Live 2018
Green-tech recently exhibited at Rail Live 2018 (20-21 June) in Warwickshire. The event was organised by RAIL magazine in partnership with Rail Alliance. The show unveiled many new developments for 2018, including
Celebrating half a century
At BBC Gardeners’ World Live, organisers acknowledged the nurseries and growers who have exhibited at BBC Gardeners’ World Live for the past twenty-five years. Each received a bespoke Moorcroft
Multi-tasking mower
Billingbear Park, in Berkshire, recently purchased a Ventrac 4500 compact tractor with a rotary Contour mowing deck, supplied and delivered by local dealer, GA Groundcare. The new combination will be
Inspirational ‘poetic garden’
RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2018 sees award-winning landscape and garden designer Edward Mairis revisit the ‘poetic garden’ genre he introduced at the 2017 show. This year, he has
Platinum award for ‘Solutions Garden’
Wyevale Garden Centres won a Platinum award, the highest award available, for ‘Solutions Garden’ at Gardeners’ World Live 2018, the gardening consumer show held annually at the Birmingham NEC. The
Online budgeting tool
As the cost of living continues to rise beyond that of economic recovery, more people working across the UK horticulture sector are struggling to make ends meet, or are unable
Best of both worlds
The British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI) has teamed up with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and BALI Registered members to design and build a show garden, with support from
Enjoying historic Kent estate
In Kent, Hever Castle Golf Club’s head greenkeeper Rob Peers is a man on a mission: “To encourage visitors to both the golf course and the castle estate to be
Platinum and Best Show Garden
BBC Gardeners’ World Live’s prestigious annual awards honoured a garden based on the history of the host city, Birmingham, with its highest accolade, a Platinum Award plus Best Show Garden.
Digger attachments on show
Along with a range of Kubota Excavators, Exac-One will show the following attachments at Hillhead 2018 on 26-28 June in Buxton: KSG 80 Kerb Grab, on a U17 TFK 70
Enhancing London’s Limmo Peninsula
Hampshire-grown wildflowers have recently commuted to London, playing their part in the regeneration of Canning Town as part of London’s ambitious Crossrail project. A beautiful wildflower meadow supplied by
