The Landscape Institute has published a new plant health and biosecurity toolkit to help built environment professionals combat Britain’s biggest pests and diseases. Launched in partnership with the British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI), Society of Garden...
Funding available for small green space improvements. Volunteering Matters Action Earth are offering grants of between £50-£250 to volunteers who would like to run environmental activities in Scotland’s green spaces. Applications are ongoing. For more details –...
After two months of heats at venues across the UK and Ireland we are delighted to announce the dates and venues of the Young Horticulturalist of the Year regional finals. Contestants will be asked a wide range of horticultural questions, some through buzzer round, and...
Can you help one of our student members, who is working towards her RHS Master of Horticulture qualification? She would appreciate your help by taking part in a short online survey which forms part of the research for her dissertation. The survey just asks if the...
Two new pests have been found in the UK, one is a potentially serious pest of spruce (Picea sp.). The other, cotton stringy scale, beyond its unsightliness is not currently thought to cause any problems. In December 2018, a breeding population of eight tooth bark...
