New Partnership Initiative

Plant Health Care PLC
01 June 2005



Embargoed until 7am                                             1 June 2005

                                        
                              Plant Health Care plc
                                        
                                        
                     Partnership with John Deere Landscapes
                  Major Initiative in the Landscaping Industry

Plant Health Care is pleased to announce it has entered into an agreement with
John Deere Landscapes. This partnership offers professional landscapers a
three-year guarantee on select nursery stock purchased from John Deere
Landscapes only when Plant Health Care's Tree Saver(R) Transplant product is
incorporated at planting time.

Plant Health Care's range of natural based products will be used by the scheme's
participants to ensure the warranty remains effective. The programme's key
promise to its customers is to replace any trees that fail during the three-year
period.

John Deere Landscapes intends to offer this programme through all of its 50+
'green' outlets in the United States, after a market testing period of four
months in Detroit in Michigan, Houston in Texas, and Nashville in Tennessee.
These regions have been chosen because of the diversity of the climate and
planting conditions.

This innovative combination of a replanting survival guarantee by application of
all-natural products is the first of its kind in the United States on this
scale.

John Brady, CEO of Plant Health Care, said, 'This is a very exciting opportunity
for both Plant Health Care and John Deere Landscapes to strengthen and expand
our relationship. A warranty of this type is unique and a testament to the
strength of our products and our commitment to providing exceptional value to
customers. Years of very positive testing have shown that our products are
extremely effective at reducing transplant loss, and we are pleased to be able
to demonstrate this to the industry through the warranty scheme. We are looking
forward to working with John Deere Landscapes to develop this and other
innovative programmes to solve real business problems and produce measurable
returns.'

Frank Bates, Senior VP of Operations, John Deere Landscapes, commented, 'Plant
Health Care is a great company with high quality products. This is an excellent
example of our commitment to providing value-added services to our Partners
Programme participants, and we're excited to work with PHC to offer this
Warranty Programme. Reducing plant losses in the landscape will save our
customers a lot of money.'

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For further information please contact:

Plant Health Care plc

John Brady, CEO Tel: [phone]
Steve Whitcomb, CFO Tel: [phone]

John Deere Landscapes

Jennifer Orechwa Tel: [phone]

Tavistock Communications Tel: [phone]

Jeremy Carey
Christian Taylor-Wilkinson




Notes to Editors:

About the programme

The programme requires eligible landscape contractors to be trained and
specially certified on the programme as well as planting procedures. Once the
eligible landscape contractor is certified and enrolled in the programme, all
plant material purchased and installed under the guidelines will receive a three
year warranty. The warranty is a trade warranty extended to the certified
landscape contractor that is purchasing the eligible nursery stock and it is not
transferable to the property owner.

To learn more about the programme, visit the website www.JohnDeereLandscapes.com.

About Plant Health Care

Plant Health Care plc ('PHC') is a leading provider of natural products for
plants and soil. Established in 1995 in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) in the United
States, PHC currently has approximately 60 employees and has operations in the
US, Mexico, UK, Spain, and the Netherlands with technical support in Austria.
The Group has two principal operating subsidiaries in the US - PHC Inc (PA) and
PHC-REC. The Company listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange in
July 2004.

PHC's products are aimed at the horticulture, agriculture, turf grass,
commercial landscaping, forestry and land reclamation industries and are both
environmentally beneficial and on the whole more cost effective than synthetic
chemical alternatives. Through the commercialisation of these products, PHC is
capitalising on current long-term trends toward natural systems and biological
products for plant care and soil and water management uses.

PHC-REC is an environmental and reclamation engineering consulting firm which
provides engineering and design services for reclamation lands disturbed by
mining, construction, and other activities. PHC-REC is the recognised leader in
the use of biologically based solutions using mycorrhizal fungi and bacteria for
the establishment of trees, shrubs, and grasses on these disturbed lands.
PHC-REC was established in 1997 to exploit PHC's products and technology.


About John Deere Landscapes

John Deere Landscapes, a wholly owned subsidiary of Deere & Company (NYSE:DE),
is the nation's leading supplier of wholesale irrigation, landscape lighting,
nursery and landscape supplies for green industry contractors. John Deere
Landscapes also offers contractors additional related services that support
their core businesses.

Established in 2001, John Deere Landscapes currently operates over 275 branches
in the United States, with approximately 1800 employees. Through the Company's
vision of maximizing the success of all stakeholders, John Deere Landscapes is
dedicated to becoming the distributor of choice for landscape and irrigation
professionals nationwide.




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