We wish you all a very good Christmas and some relaxing days with family or friends - or however you choose to spend the festive period. Catch up and recoup your energy ready for a happy and fruitful new year in 2024.

As usual we have asked a number of celebrities from the plant world to choose their Favourite Christmas Plant. The selection of plants they were asked to consider included favourites from recent years’ winners and runners up.

Over the past few years we have had a committee of well known people from the industry vote from a selection of plants to pick their favourite for Christmas. This year we are embarking on a similar idea but the choice is from the top plants listed over the last few years.

Tivoli Group Ltd has been awarded a new contract to deliver grounds maintenance and associated services at 30+ schools that make up Bishop Chadwick Catholic Education Trust across South Tyneside, Sunderland, and East Durham.

Ambius have supplied Christmas decorations for Lakings of Louth for a number of years, however year 2022 was different as there was a splendid prize for a retailer to be won. Clever and strategic thinking was needed to make the store most appealing to the judges and public. The client not only wanted to win the competition but also wanted it to be engaging and get people’s attention so they can make a noise on social media and get as much engagement and activity as possible for the store.