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Scholarship for students with environmental solutions

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If you’re a student with a passion for ‘green’ horticulture apply for the £1,500 John Gibson Environmental Scholarship. Part of the David Colegrave Foundation Scholarship Season, this award wants to know your interest in environmental solutions and sustainable applications and how you see them advancing commercial horticulture. Juliet Turner won the John Gibson Environmental Scholarship

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Plant and flower nurseries put pressure on Government to get Garden Centres open

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Heavy lobbying from the ornamental plants and horticultural industry may see the UK’s 2000 garden centres joining DIY stores and super-markets in opening their doors again to sell plants. The easing of restrictions on selling plants through retail outlets could be life-saving news for Newey Ltd, which has nurseries nationwide and has already sunk 85%

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Independents left to go bust while supermarkets and DIY giants make record sales

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Garden Centre retailer, Tony Joyner, who runs Exeter store, Plants Galore, has torn up a council prohibition order to shut up shop because his local Aldi is still open and selling near-identical products. Many retailers will sympathise entirely with his predicament, despairing at the fact that supermarkets and DIY stores – long-time competitors with garden

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