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Tesco sell Dobbies for £217m - but not to Wyevale
Leighton Buzzard GC is Home & Garden's tenth
GIMA Charity Golf Day hailed as a great success
Whitehall will grow to over 22,000 sq m of retail area
Glyphosate decision deferred yet again
Sales boost for sunny side of the country
Hilltop's play barn raises £20k for Greenfingers
January Furniture Show's future secured in NEC deal
London potholes transformed into miniature gardens
Nurseries help charity with garden at Sophie House
Plantarea Assistant Bedding Plants – Essex
Sales & Marketing Exec, Landscape Amenity Sector
Garden Sundries Retail Manager - Cornwall
Garden Sundries Retail Manager - South Gloucestershire
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Durston appoints new national sales manager
Garden lighting illuminates slugs and snails
Another strong sales week for herb plants
Squire's to host RNRS southern rose show
Multi-purpose compost is a bestseller for Durstons
Thrive showcases its ‘life changing’ floral border at BBC Gardeners’ World Live
Improved displays feature in Mr Fothergill's 2017 retail range
WorldSkills semi-finalists announced for RHS Flower Show Tatton Park
Inside the June issue of Garden Trade News
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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GTN's Greatest Catering Awards
All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
Taming the beast at the HTA Catering Conference
Green Pastures, Fron Goch and Bents are The Greatest Garden Centre Catering Teams
The Greatest Afternoon Tea Experience Team
Poppies of Oban and Trentham Blue Diamond pick up gold as The Greatest Garden Centre Coffee Teams
Timmermans wins The Greatest Garden Centre Chef Team Award
Fron Goch and Squires Badshot Lea crowned The Greatest Garden Centre Front of House Teams
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Plantarea Assistant Bedding Plants – Essex
Salary: Depending on experience
 
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Sales & Marketing Exec, Landscape Amenity Sector
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Garden Sundries Retail Manager - Cornwall
Salary: £18,000 - £19,000
 
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Sales boost for sunny side of the country


Half term saw a distinct East-West split in garden centre sales due to the weather. The GTN Bestsellers team experienced it for real while out judging for The Greatest Catering Awards and that has certainly been backed up by the Epos data supplied for our Bestsellers analysis.

All centres in the East and South had sales decreases week on week while those in the West experienced sales increases with our overall sales figures coming in at 14% down on
last year.

Where the weather was great plants were flying through the tills and we can see from our Plants chart that large plants looking good are really starting to sell through.

The display of Manhatten Lights 5-litre Lupins (pictured below) at Bents Home & Garden was having to be replenished every hour when we called in last Friday. How far will Lupins move up the chart next week?

GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year...
  • Garden Products - down 7%
  • Veg-2-Gro - down 26%
  • Growing Media - down 4%
  • All Items Index - down 14%
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