Alford Nurseries and Garden Centre in Grimsby has been granted approval to extend its business. The store in Grimsby Road, Laceby, received unanimous support for the proposals after all 11 members of North East Lincolnshire Council's Planning Committee voted to approve them...
The RHS has committed to invest £7.3 million by 2025 to halt the decline in the number of people in the UK with horticultural skills. As part of the investment the charity will increase the number of its horticultural apprentice and training positions from 46 to 76 over the next 10 years to encourage and support more people to enter the industry...
Members of the garden centre industry turned out in force for the funeral of All-In-One Garden Centre founder Dave Stafford on Tuesday. The former Chairman of the GCA died at the age of 71 following a 15-month battle against kidney cancer...
The £140m shopping and leisure complex at Rushden Lakes in Northants, which will feature a new garden centre, is closer to becoming a reality after a property developer agreed to fund the scheme...
Good Friday and Easter Saturday once again failed to make up for being closed on Easter Sunday as cold weather saw sales down on the previous week when most garden centres would have been hoping for big increases...
An explosion of young veg plant sales has bucked the trend. Above, pupils at Sherborne Primary School in Dorset have been invited by Castle Gardens to take part in The Gardens Group’s new Young Grower of the Year competition.
Garden centres were boosted by warm and sunny weather on Easter Monday which enticed shoppers to flock to their stores. The mood was summed up by Poplars general manager Alastair Jackson, who commented: "It was a stonker of a day."
Eighties pop star Kim Wilde will be hosting April’s BBC Lifeline Appeal on behalf of the charity Thrive, which uses gardening to bring about positive changes in the lives of people who are living with disabilities or ill health, or those who are isolated, disadvantaged or vulnerable...
Hillier Garden Centres, which are celebrating many anniversaries in 2015 including its 150th birthday, will notch up an exciting Chelse First with the inaugural Young Hillier Day...
Eighteen UK suppliers of garden and leisure products will be exhibiting their latest products in the British pavilion at the National Hardware Show being held in Las Vegas between May 5-7. The firms form part of a group organised by the Gardenex export federation which has taken a British contingent to the show for the past 19 years...
Rolawn raised £313.76 for Greenfingers on Garden Re-Leaf Day to help the organisation continue its work in creating inspiring and magical gardens for children in hospices...
Will we be seeing more of this during the run-up to the General Election – political party candidates being seen out-and-about at garden centres? Here George Osborne is spotted visiting Wyevale Garden Centres at Syon Park...
Sales of young veg plants have really exploded despite the weather, with garden centre EPOS data supplied for GTN Bestselllers. They outsold seed packs to take the Top 33 chart positions and 46 in total of the Top 50...
After all the early season growing media gains and the prospect of a bumper growing year, the first week of Easter has pulled sales of growing media back to level with last year...
Valentine Warner, TV chef and author, has been announced as the Keynote Speaker on day two of the HTA Catering Conference 2015, which takes place on June 9-10 at The Belfry, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands...
