Charity begins at Holme

Banyards donated 300 beautiful bedding plants to the Forest Holme Summer Gala. The event, on Saturday 30 June, raised much-needed cash for the specialist palliative care unit, which is part of Poole Hospital NHS Trust.

Banyards puts on first class display for arts graduates

Leading horticultural company Banyards has put on a first-class flower display to honour graduates at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth. The Horton Heath-based company created 20 colourful containers of exotic plants, fresh flowers and foliage, including orchids; anthuriums; guzmanias; dracaenas and miniature palms, for the 29 June graduation ceremony in Wimborne Minster.

Banyards beefs up its aerial rescue practice

Dorset horticultural company Banyards is introducing monthly aerial rescue practice for all their tree surgery teams.
It is not only cats that have to be rescued from trees: sometimes an accident can mean that a tree surgeon has to be rescued, so Banyards’ tree surgery manager, Peter Ellis, is pushing his teams into more regular practice.