In This Issue
Easy Fountain picking up on latest trends
Exclusive: First look at Westland's 'Lawn Man' TV ad
Velcro Companies expands with investment in Petface
Vitax appoints new sales manager
Mother’s Day records despite drop in volumes
Pink Kisses are a big sales winner
Woodstock Chimes offer quality and great value
Boost your EGO with sales of petrol free garden machinery
Record-breaking Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day sees 5-year tally pass £0.5m
Team Briers survive the Garden Re-Leaf Day walk
Which one will be crowned Rising Star 2017?
Strongest Man contenders train amongst the plants
Writtle wins Young Gardeners title in Ideal Home Show design contest
Zest 4 Leisure employees to tackle Manchester Marathon
Assistant Garden Centre Manager - Oxfordshire
Nursery Grower Seasonal Bedding Plants (Devon)
Garden Centre Plantarea Horticultural Manager (Worcestershire)
Plantarea Department Head / Manager (Hampshire)
Plantarea Supervior / Manager (Berkshire)
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Notcutts celebrates staff ‘heroes’
Lights add sparkle to Mother’s Day
Tomato plant sales soar
Impressive initial roll-call of speakers for GrowQuip
DCF invests £8,500 in students of horticulture
Nursery loans plants for children's charity fundraiser
Mother’s Day hit for growing media sales
LifestyleGarden on the move
Pictures from the Greatest Christmas Gold-winning teams
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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Tomato plant sales soar
 
The sales of tomato plants led the way during Mother’s Day week as the nation’s gardeners took the opportunity to get ahead with their veg growing for the summer.

Ten of the GTN Bestsellers Veg-2-Gro Top 20 lines are tomato plants with Tumbling Tom the most popular for the second week running.

The main highlights this week were:
  • Tomato Shirley 8cm and Tomato Gardeners Delight 8cm filled the No 2 and 3 places.
  • Quantil Tomato Beefmaster 8cm was the highest climber, jumping 30 places to No 17.
  • Farplants Rosemary Common was the highest re-entry at No 18.
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