In This Issue
Radio 2 Gardens steal the show - and provide great themes for retail displays
Great success for HTA 40 Sunbury Road exhibit at Chelsea following a busy press day
Crocus buys its first bricks and mortar garden centre - and it won't be the last - Chelsea update
24th Gold for Johnny Walkers, Guy Hands with Gemma Arterton, Scotts win Best Discovery Exhibit and other show highlights
Sales explosion of local wine at Green Pastures GC
Exclusively Shows focus on future trends and kitchen needs
Terra Firma props up Wyevale Garden Centres
Woodstock Chimes – excellent quality at a reasonable price
Hopes for footfall to rise in the warmer weather
Evergreen Enterprises lights up homes with Night Garden
BBQs are for life, not just for Summer
Notcutts Garden Centres and Shrek’s Adventure! London strike up ‘green’ partnership
Wyevale Nurseries unveils 5 new plants in Chelsea garden
RHS Chelsea Garden Product of the Year finalists
Kelling Estate acquires North Norfolk garden centre
Rising Stars ready for world famous flower show
Growth Technology Orchid Days are true crowd pleasers
Pets at Glee: an unrivalled profit opportunity
Durstons work hand-in-hand with local schools
GIMA wins silver at the inaugural Awards Awards
Sales Executive - South of England
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New Senior Executive Director for HTA
Spring ‘hibernation’ hits product sales
Briers invests in new systems for improved customer service
Multifunctional city comfort - these are the outdoor trends of 2017/2018
Cucumbers and courgettes up year on year
There’s still lots of growing potential in May
Businesses urged to get behind community farms & gardens
New route planner on FlowerTrials® website
Bedding Geraniums are 10% of all plants sold
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
Celebrity chef Vivek Singh confirmed for Commercial Kitchen Keynote Q&A
Cotswold Fayre’s Christmas Roadshows are coming to Town
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Radio 2 Gardens steal the show - and provide great themes for retail displays



The five BBC Radio 2 gardens at RHS Chelsea stole the show on Press day morning with live broadcasts by Chris Evans and the other presenters and the themes used could be easily replicated in garden centre settings...
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Great success for HTA 40 Sunbury Road exhibit at Chelsea following a busy press day
  

The industry exhibit ’40 Sunbury Road’ has achieved a Silver Medal at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and one of the featured new plants Dwarf Mulberry Charlotte Russe from Suttons has taken the title of RHS Plant of the Year.
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Crocus buys its first bricks and mortar garden centre - and it won't be the last - Chelsea update
Following on from the announcement about the purchase of Dorney Court Kitchen Garden more "clicks and bricks" aquisitions appear to be in the pipeline...
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24th Gold for Johnny Walkers, Guy Hands with Gemma Arterton, Scotts win Best Discovery Exhibit and other show highlights
  

Johnny Walkers won a 24th consecutive Gold Medal for his display of Taylors daffodils, Guy Hands and Gemma Arterton attracted one of he biggest paparazzi crowds, Scotts Miracle-Gro won Best Discovery exhibit in The Great Pavillion and purple was the dominant planting colour theme for Chelsea 2017...
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Sales explosion of local wine at Green Pastures GC
 

Green Pastures Garden Centre in Norfolk experienced a 'sales explosion' of a wine from a local vineyard after it was declared 'The World's Best White Wine'...
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Exclusively Shows focus on future trends and kitchen needs
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This year trade shows Exclusively Electrical and Exclusively Housewares have their sights firmly set on what will be in the kitchen of the future...
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Terra Firma props up Wyevale Garden Centres


The Sunday Telegraph has revealed today that Terra Firma had to dip into its warchest to buy out £25m of bank debt related to the purchase of Wyevale Garden Centres in 2012...
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Woodstock Chimes – excellent quality at a reasonable price
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Woodstock Chimes maintains high standards by using premium grade materials such as top grade aluminium and North American hardwood as well as by enforcing exacting specifications for elements like tube thickness, clapper placement, placement of tube string holes, windcatcher weight, and stringing methodology...
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Hopes for footfall to rise in the warmer weather


According to GTN Bestsellers, plant, veg and growing media sales all fared better year-on-year than decorative and core gardening products during the second week of May so there is plenty of desire and potential for all garden centre sales to soar when footfall gets back to ‘normal’ early summer levels.
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Evergreen Enterprises lights up homes with Night Garden
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Evergreen Enterprises offers dozens of lighted products throughout its various brands, with glow in the dark, LED battery powered and solar color-changing features to help you capture this opportunity...
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BBQs are for life, not just for Summer
GTN Xtra Promotion: Rexmartins’ outdoor living range is ideal whatever the weather
 
Rexmartins’ luxury RMB outdoor living range of modular kitchens provides a long-term solution for customers wanting to take garden entertaining to the next level.
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Notcutts Garden Centres and Shrek’s Adventure! London strike up ‘green’ partnership


Family-owned garden centre group Notcutts, will be welcoming a visitor with very green fingers to its stores this summer when Shrek the Ogre will be taking a break from his London attraction to encourage children to get planting in their gardens...
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Wyevale Nurseries unveils 5 new plants in Chelsea garden

One of the UK’s leading nurseries in Hereford has supplied five new plant introductions to be used in the Horticultural Trades Association’s Chelsea Flower Show garden titled ‘40 Sunbury Road’...
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RHS Chelsea Garden Product of the Year finalists
 
The Burgon & Ball Ltd Hip-Trug (pictured) is among 13 finalists in the RHS Chelsea Garden Product of the Year competition, which will be judged tomorrow (Monday). Other finalists include Harrod Horticultural Metal Planters & Raised Beds, Agralan Permafelt and Haxnicks Vigoroot Easy Table Garden...


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Kelling Estate acquires North Norfolk garden centre


The Kelling Estate has acquired the business and assets of EMCY Garden & Leisure in North Norfolk from Mike and Caroline Crane.
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Rising Stars ready for world famous flower show


Three Rising Stars will be taking part at Chelsea flower Show this week, having created a specially planted container to exhibit. The Rising Stars themselves will be travelling to Chelsea on Thursday, May 25 to tell the story of their container, which is based around the theme of ‘unusual containers’...
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
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Celebrity chef Vivek Singh confirmed for Commercial Kitchen Keynote Q&A

The Cinnamon Collection's executive chef and founder Vivek Singh has been confirmed for a headline Keynote Q&A at Commercial Kitchen 2017. The UK’s only dedicated event for catering equipment buyers and suppliers returns to the NEC Birmingham next month, on 6-7 June...

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Cotswold Fayre’s Christmas Roadshows are coming to Town


Cotswold Fayre, is offering retailers the chance to preview the latest festive products at its Christmas Roadshows...
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Growth Technology Orchid Days are true crowd pleasers

As we approach peak season for growing media and plant food sales, we talk to Manos Kanellos, Sales & Marketing Manager at leading manufacturer Growth Technology, about the increasing popularity of orchids...

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Pets at Glee: an unrivalled profit opportunity
 
With a recent report suggesting that 70% of UK garden centres now feature a dedicated pet care section, it is clear that the UK's love for their pets shows no sign of slowing.  The trade event that offers pet care suppliers the very best opportunity to communicate with garden centre buyers is Glee (11th - 13th September, NEC Birmingham)...
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Durstons work hand-in-hand with local schools


Somerset-based Durston Garden Products has a reputation for working closely with local schools in an effort to instil gardening skills in children as early as five years old and  their latest project involves working in partnership with All-Hallows Catholic Prep-School in East Cranmore...
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GIMA wins silver at the inaugural Awards Awards


Last week, the GIMA team were over the moon to win silver at the inaugural Awards Awards ceremony...
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