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Hilltop Garden Store, near Chipping Norton,Oxfordshire, have raised more than £20,000 for Greenfingers via takings from The Soft Play Barn. Source: Garden1

Pressure group SumOfUs says 282,000 people have signed a petition against the multinational chemical companies’ proposed merger. Source: Garden1

Uncertainty prevails as the horticulture industry waits to hear whether it is about to lose access to the world’s most widely used weedkiller, glyphosate. Source: Garden1

New British Protected Ornamentals Association chairman Greg Hill says promoting commercial horticulture to consumers will benefit growers. Source: Garden1

Stephen Bennett, former shows director of the RHS, who helped to launch BBC Gardeners’ World Live in 1993 has decided to move on to concentrate on his consultancy work for other clients. Source: Garden1

New British Protected Ornamentals Association chairman Greg Hill says promoting commercial horticulture to consumers will benefit growers. Source: Garden1

An urgent vote on whether to reapprove the authorization of glyphosate will now go to an appeals committee on 23 June – just a week before the weedkiller’s license is set to expire. Source: Garden1

Tong Garden Centre in Bradford, West Yorkshire, plans to grow its workforce by 15 to 150 by the end of the year and is also investing £300,000 on three projects, including an 80 per cent increase in warehouse space. Source: Garden1

First Franchise is to open Cats Protection virtual homing hubs at garden centres. Source: Garden1

Chelsea Fringe in Bristol and Bath until June 12 includes two installations on separate sites this year – a Tropical Giant Watering Can at Bristol Airport and a Planted Pickup Truck filled with bee friendly plants at Cleeve. Source: Garden1

Chelsea Fringe in Bristol and Bath until June 12 includes two installations on separate sites this year. Source: Garden1

New plants will be launched at BBC Gardener’s World Live at Birmingham NEC on 16-19 June, including Streptocarpus ‘Titania’ from Dibleys and Geum ‘Emmylou’ from East of England Nurseries. Source: Garden1

Double H project manager Dan Pass has launched consumer website loveorchids.co.uk. Source: Garden1

Horticulture Exhibitors Association (HEA) president John Tilbury is attempting to encourage plants people to look more closely at their selling techniques and at what they do with their selling areas at shows to encourage customers to buy more plants. Source: Garden1

Double H project manager Dan Pass has launched consumer website loveorchids.co.uk. Source: Garden1

Double H project manager Dan Pass has launched consumer website loveorchids.co.uk. Source: Garden1

Leighton Buzzard Garden Centre has been saved, with contracts exchanged between the current owners and Home and Garden Group after owners Martin and Stuart Hammond granted a lease to Home & Garden who have made the Bedfordshire site their tenth garden centre. Source: Garden1

Total divisional sales excluding fuel were up 1.5 per cent as the Waitrose 1 advertising campaign continued. Source: Garden1

The latest supplier development event from BHETA and GIMA with The Wyevale Garden Centre Group (TWGC) has taken place. Source: Garden1

Homebase, now owned by Bunnings, has pulled out of the Nectar loyalty card scheme. Source: Garden1