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JBA Seed Potatoes has appeared on TV discussing worries that they will not be able to export to Northern Ireland after the end of the Brexit transition period. Source: Garden1

Garden centres, DIYs and online sellers are developing new Covid-19 safe ways to sell Christmas trees to the public. Source: Garden1

For a monthly fee, subscribers receive personalised home-delivered plant boxes. Source: Garden1

Ribble Valley retail nursery Holden Clough is investing in the future after successfully riding the storms that 2020 brought. Source: Garden1

Seeds of Italy/Franchi’s Paolo Arrigo said he believes people not going on foreign holidays has led to them “splashing out” more on specialist seed varieties. Source: Garden1

Coventry University reader in sustainable economies Dr David Bek says the horticulture industry cannot ignore ferment in recent weeks around peat reduction. Source: Garden1

Dobbies Garden Centres has teamed up with Teenage Cancer Trust to give local heroes across the UK a Christmas to remember. Source: Garden1

The RHS has announced a partnership with historic South African fruit and wine farm Babylonstoren to produce an RHS rosé wine. Source: Garden1

Customers must input postcode and tree SKU purchase number to add their ‘Trees for Life’ to the National Tree Map. Source: Garden1

Conservative peer Lord Naseby asked a written question to the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy as part of a Lords debate this week. Source: Garden1

How 2020 might be remembered month-by-month in horticulture, with coronavirus and Brexit dominating the year. Source: Garden1

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HTA chairman James Barnes says a “train crash” and “iniquitous” IT system for checking imported plant health post-Brexit is the “biggest barrier to trade the industry has ever faced”. Source: Garden1

HTA chairman James Barnes says a “train crash” and “iniquitous” IT system for checking imported plant health post-Brexit is the “biggest barrier to trade the industry has ever faced”. Source: Garden1

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Mr Fothergill’s has helped raise vital funds for BBC Children in Need this year, by smartening up and wearing a ‘Tie for Tim’. Source: Garden1

Hope Plants set up in 2020 to meet demand for plants when garden centres were closed during the March-May lockdown and helped Farplants in particular sell plants that should have gone to garden retail. Source: Garden1

For the first time, B&Q will be launching nationwide delivery socially distanced door drops for online orders of real Christmas trees. Source: Garden1

Thetford Garden Centre in Norfolk has opened a temporary farm shop in its restaurant, which it has been forced to close this November during the second lockdown. Source: Garden1

BBC Gardeners’ World presenter Monty Don has appeared on Channel 4 News to call for a ban on peat use. Source: Garden1