On Friday , 26 April , the Horticultural Trades Association ( HTA ) welcome local MP David Johnston to Horticulture House , Chilton , its Oxfordshire role . The visit in the main focused on the impendent Border changes , which pose a challenge for the horticulture sphere . This sphere imports plants and industrial plant products worth £ 753 million every year . The visit also put up an chance for the HTA to brief Mr Johnston on its body of work and share cardinal datum and insights on UK environmental gardening . Vicky Notarbartolo , Manager of British Garden Centre ’s Chilton website , also participate in the visit .
David Johnston MP is also the Children ’s Minister , and the visit was " a great chance " to hash out the upcoming National Children ’s Gardening Week ( 25 May - 29 November 2024 ) . This annual initiative aims to capture children ’s enthusiasm for garden at a time of year when results are immediately visible . harmonise to the HTA , environmental gardening has numerous benefits for young people , including promoting physical health , support genial wellbeing through a link with nature and improving behavior by instilling obligation in like for plant . Gardening would also affirm learning across various subjects such as literacy , science , and numeracy while teaching about the descent of solid food and providing a richer intellect of the born world and food production .
David Johnston , MP for Wantage , commented : " It was a pleasure to call in Horticulture House today to take more about the work the Horticultural Trade Association is doing and the yield the sector is facing . Thank you , in particular , to Vicky from Chilton Garden Centre for give way me her perspective . I was also pleased to discuss National Children ’s Gardening Week and fully support their plans to get child more tangled with nature . "
Jennifer Pheasey , HTA ’s Director of Public Affairs , commented : " We were entranced to welcome David at Horticulture House . Environmental Horticulture supports 674,000 with huge economic , environmental , health , and wellbeing benefit . HTA members are diverse in what they do to deliver for gardens and green spaces , but they are facing many challenges . Whilst we represent phallus across the UK , the opportunity to meet our local MP to Chilton give us a chance to brief him on the sphere and some of these issues , from adapting to a changing clime to increased cost of doing business and next week ’s mete modification as an close at hand risk and costs . "
For more informationHorticultural Trades Associationwww.the-hta.org.uk
