Garden Retail

• Garden centres double turnover as spring blooms

• Barbican to host Horticultural Trades Association strategic business conference

• Gardening grows at faster rate than DIY sector

• Pest & Disease Alert: Bemisia Tabaci (tobacco whitefly)

• Pest & Disease Alert: Phytophthora kernoviae

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Ornamentals Production

• Defra chief scientific adviser quizzed on horticultural R&D at Parliamentary select committee

• Vandals cause £30,000 of damage at Coblands Nursery

• Grow-your-own retailer Grown For You ties up with Healthy London Living website

• Pest & Disease Alert: Bemisia Tabaci (tobacco whitefly)

• Pest & Disease Alert: Phytophthora Ramorum outbreaks detected in Lancashire and Yorkshire

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Edibles

• European Parliament committee votes in favour of country-of-origin labels on fruit and vegetables

• Herefordshire Council planning committee approves fruit grower S&A's plans for workers' accommodation

• Grow-your-own retailer Grown For You ties up with Healthy London Living website

• Potato growers set to pay higher levy rate as Defra approves new figures

• Former president of the East Kent Fruit Society Basil Neame CBE dies aged 88

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Turf

• Environmentally-friendly domestic lawn care service opens in Scotland

• England cricket body pledges major investment to Institute of Groundsmanship

• Turf firm Souters Sports launches irrigation division

• Grass group appointed sole UK importer for RotaDairon

• Bobcat T110

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Landscape

• Hard Landscaping Show boasts seminars and panel discussions

• Hard Landscaping Show organisers predict 1,000 visitors for inaugural event

• Landscaping products firm Marshalls receives sustainability award

• Pershore College students plan cider-themed garden at Malvern Spring Gardening Show

• Landscape Institute launches online resource

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Parks & Gardens

• Great Gardens of Sussex offer free visit in "passport" scheme

• Alan Titchmarsh and Vic Reeves make flowers for National Trust art exhibition

• London Parks and Gardens Trust launches online listing of London's green spaces

• Pest & Disease Alert: Phytophthora kernoviae

• Princess Royal to visit biggest ever show garden at Malvern Spring Gardening Show

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Arboriculture

• Arboricultural Association to add extra date for oversubscribed course

• Great British Elm Experiment receives Parliamentary support

• Pest & Disease Alert: Phytophthora Ramorum outbreaks detected in Lancashire and Yorkshire

• Pest & Disease Alert: Phytophthora kernoviae

• Queen approves re-appointment of three forestry commissioners

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