Rona, Canada's largest home improvement and gardening retailer, is selling off its commercial and professional market division. 

Three garden product suppliers will be taking part in a one-off event in Buckingham Palace gardens next month marking the 60th anniversary of the Queen's coronation. 

The delayed summer season has turned 2013 into the year of the instant garden, with consumers desperate for quick fixes and instant colour. 

Former managing director of Vital Earth GB Ltd and, latterly, business operations manager UK at Bord na Móna UK, Steve Harper is now to head up all of the Bord na Móna UK (BNM UK) retail business. 

Fancy flinging yourself out of an aeroplane to help raise funds for the dedicated industry charity? If so, the Rainy Day Trust is recruiting volunteers for its annual parachute jump in September. 

The first ever Waitrose gardening TV channel launched yesterday, featuring tips and advice from the UK's favourite gardening celeb and new Waitrose brand ambassador, Alan Titchmarsh. 

Online and mail order supplier of ironmongery products has taken on four new apprentices in contact centre and distribution department at its HQ in Basildon, working towards NVQ and City & Guilds qualifications. 

Up-market furniture chain Dwell has ceased trading, it was announced today. 

US chain Orchard Supply Hardware Stores looks set to be acquired by home improvement rival Lowe's after Orchard filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday. 

The Garden Centre Group has acquired Barton Grange's Bolton branch to add to the 129 garden centres already within the group. 

B&Q will try to persuade consumers to transform 'unloved rooms' with the launch of a new summer advertising campaign. 

Bord na Móna UK has supplied a pallet of its RSPB-branded Vital Earth compost to plant up the bird protection charity's show garden at BBC Gardeners' World Live. 

Sika has acquired Everbuild, the UK's largest independent manufacturer of sealants, adhesives and construction chemicals, to help strengthen its position in the builder's merchant market. 

Reporting on the first year of its Net Positive sustainability programme, Kingfisher says it has already made progress against its ambitious targets. 

A Cambridgeshire branch of B&Q has been targeted by thieves twice in one week. 

Growing media supplier Durston Garden Products has recorded its highest sales figures ever since the company was established in 1860, despite the continued economic downturn and poor weather. 

Following several consecutive reports of depressed sales, Home Retail Group's Homebase has reported sales growth for the 13 weeks to June 1, 2013, albeit marginal and "behind expectations". 

Following DIY Week magazine and diyweek.net's move to new owner Datateam Publishing this spring, you will no longer be able to contact the team using the old Faversham House contact details. 

The Business Design Centre, London, was packed to the rafters once again for Exclusively Housewares this week, with suppliers and retailers crossing the country to mull over the latest trends at the forefront of the homewares industry. 

Mo Iqbal, former owner of Tile Giant, has joined forces with former Topps Tiles commercial director Jeremy Harris to form a specialist tiles etailer called Tile Mountain.