In This Issue
Safe Trading Guidance for all garden centres published by HTA
It’s #FloralFriday, our favourite day of the week!
GrowNation announce FREE ecommerce websites for Garden Centres with local delivery route optimisation
James Stamp to the rescue
Garden centre re-opening gains high attention
Introducing Cleaner Retail – helping retailers to stop the spread of Covid-19 with a one-stop solution for safe trading
Say “Thank You” to our NHS with bedding plants!
National Gardening Week is the perfect time to get involved in #FloralFriday
Find plant deliveries online with ‘Plants Near Me’ - over 450 business listed
Rosebourne appoint Carol Paris as Chief Executive
PFMA supports the HTA’s Garden Centre Reopening Campaign
A third of UK growers will be out of business before the end of the year reveals new industry survey
Dobbies supports National Gardening Week
Let your free time grow on you
Evergreen Garden Care, helping hands to combat coronavirus
Gardener’s World Mark Lane joins forces with Jeyes to launch “The Great British Garden Spruce Up”
HortAid-20 Gardening Competition, supported by Suttons and panel of well-known judges, kick starts Perennial’s emergency Covid-19 appeal
Keeping the community growing, The Gardens Group donates stock to charities, hospitals and schools
LifestyleGarden donates product to the NHS Nightingale Hospital
AQUA 2021 takes on an even more crucial role
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
MSC advises garden centres to maximise relief grant opportunity and challenge rateable values
EGO’s new battery powers gardeners through the day
The trade fair Plantarium 2020 has been cancelled
GTN Xtra - Send to all
The best of last week's
How are suppliers faring during lockdown - Westland, Smart, Evergreen Garden Care and others are getting ready for re-opening of garden centres
Analogue survival for garden centres in a digital world
Behind the scenes at Baytree Click & Collect
Garden Leisure suppliers living in an on-line world but anticipating garden centres re-opening
Greenfingers Charity’s #floralfriday continues to bring a little floral cheer to the nation
Garden Centre Photo Tours
Haskins Snowhill re-opens after £15m re-vamp
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National Gardening Week is the perfect time to get involved in #FloralFriday

During these challenging days of lockdown, social distancing and isolation, Greenfingers Charity and friends would like your help this Friday (1st May) to bring a little bit of floral sunshine to social media. 

 

#FloralFriday, now in its fifth week, has seen friends from across the gardening industry, garden lovers and many others post their favourite floral photos, videos and #FloralFriday selfies on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.

 

Whether you have, or have not, joined in before, National Gardening Week is the perfect time to dust down your floral shirt, jacket, tie, dress or shoes, get creative, join in the fun and show the nation that spending time in the garden is good for the heart, body and soul.

 

To get involved, simply…

  • Post a selfie wearing your favourite floral shirt, dress, hat, shoes, tie, pjs or similar or favourite floral image
  • Use the hashtags #floralfriday #hortindustry #greenfingers
  • Tag Greenfingers Charity
  • If you can, donate by

Texting FLORALFRIDAY to 70085 to donate £5 or FLORALFRIDAYTEN to 70085 to donate £10

  • nominate a friend to do the same

 

Speaking about #FloralFriday, Linda Petrons, Director of Fundraising and Communications said:  “We launched this campaign at the beginning of April with three aims:  to keep the Greenfingers Charity brand alive, raise awareness of the issues being faced by so many friends in the gardening industry and of course to spread a little floral cheer during these difficult times.  We are enormously grateful to all those who have taken part and/or have donated so far.  We are loving seeing your posts and are hugely grateful for your donations.  It is only thanks to your continued support that we can continue make a very real difference to children and families when life begins to return to what will surely be a new normal.”

 

For more information about other ways you can support Greenfingers Charity, please contact Linda@greenfingerscharity.org.uk or call 07908 221240.

 

Here's a selection of #floralfriday images from social media last week.

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