In This Issue
Shaw trust buy two centres from Hillview
Green Magic POS display products still bestsellers
Plant sales lead the way – up 456% compared to last year
Plant buyers in positive mood at Classiflora
Chief Executive sought for Brechin Garden Centre
Jane Lawler joins GCA’s team of inspectors
Vitax marches on with charity partnership
Date set for funeral of Michael Cooling
Scottish centre offers GYO Brexit Survival Kit!
Tree violet wins international accolade for Groves
Action needed to avoid costly bio-security breakdown
The Plant Pyramid returns to BBC Gardeners’ World Live
Trixie joins Pets at Glee 2019
CJ Wildlife launch organic seeds for gardeners
How this year's Garden Re-Leaf Day funds will be used
Challenges galore in another action-packed year for Greenfingers
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Garden product sales volumes up by 197%
Growing media growth matches plants
Wild Bird Care suffers because of lack of snow
Veg-2-Gro sales grow without The Beast
Bumper March start for young plant sales
Last chance to book your place at international trade event
Major new incentive for plant health research students
Furniture brand parent firm shortlisted for Sedex award
The best of last week's
Wyevale Garden Centres agrees sale of two garden centres - Barnett Hill and Seven Hills
February sets new sales records for garden centres
Newspan starts work on major Tong GC development
Wyevale Nurseries phases in recyclable plant pots
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Shaw trust buy two centres from Hillview

Shaw Trust has purchased two midlands garden centres from the Hillview Group...

 

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Green Magic POS display products still bestsellers
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Green Magic’s specialised POS display products are still very much in demand by garden centres 20 years after the company first invented them...

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Plant sales lead the way – up 456% compared to last year

 

Plant sales led the way as garden centres experienced huge swings for the first week of March compared to last year. Remember the snow from The Beast from the East saw GTN Bestsellers recording the worst ever weekly sales for garden centres this time last year...

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Plant buyers in positive mood at Classiflora

Garden centre plant buyers were out in force and in positive mood at the Classiflora Open Days last week....

 

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Chief Executive sought for Brechin Garden Centre
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Brechin Castle Garden Centre is seeking a Chief Executive to take full day to day responsibility for running the family-owned two unit catering/retail/ destination business – the garden centre and Peggy Scotts Restaurant, which jointly turns over in excess of £3m and employs 90 full and part time staff...

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Jane Lawler joins GCA’s team of inspectors
 

Jane Lawler has joined the GCA’s team of inspectors. Jane, who has more than 35 years’ experience in marketing and business development, will be responsible for inspecting member garden centres in North Thames, Scotland and Northern Ireland...

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Vitax marches on with charity partnership

Vitax Limited has announced it will be marching forward with its support for a national charity – ABF The Soldiers’ Charity  – for a second consecutive year.

 

 

Mark Butler – national sales manager at Vitax; Paul Gooding – chairman at Vitax; Robin Bacon - Chief of Staff at ABF The Soldiers’ Charity and Charlie Strawa – ABF The Soldiers’ Charity.

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Date set for funeral of Michael Cooling

 

 

The funeral of Michael Cooling, son of the founder of Coolings Nurseries, will take place on Tuesday 26 March in Chislehurst...

 

Pictured: Michael and Miriam Cooling.

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Scottish centre offers GYO Brexit Survival Kit!

Cardwell Garden Centre in Scotland has come up with a Grow Your Own Brexit Survival Kit  to help customers avoid food shortages in the event of a no-deal Brexit...

 

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Tree violet wins international accolade for Groves

 

 

 

 

 

Bridport-based Groves Nurseries has received another accolade for its award-winning violets...

 

 

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Action needed to avoid costly bio-security breakdown
 

Hillier Nurseries divisional director Hossein Arshadi says existing initiatives to halt the spread of plant pests and diseases will not work in practice and could lead to a “very costly breakdown in bio security”.

 

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Casual Dining wows restaurant sector at new venue
The UK’s biggest casual dining event just got bigger, with a 5% increase in attendance

 

Over 5,000 attendees – representing the UK’s best restaurant, pub and bar operators – were out in force at Casual Dining show last week...

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The Plant Pyramid returns to BBC Gardeners’ World Live

 

The Plant Pyramid, supported by Peter Seabrook, returns to the Floral Marquee at BBC Gardeners’ World Live 2019, with four new satellite pyramids. The Pyramids will play host to a monumental display of up to four thousand plants, all new introductions for either 2018 or 2019...

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Trixie joins Pets at Glee 2019

 

One of the world’s leading pet product suppliers, the German based Trixie, has confirmed it will be exhibiting at Pets at Glee in 2019, further cementing the show’s value for pet and garden retailers...

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CJ Wildlife launch organic seeds for gardeners

Bird food supplier CJ Wildlife has introduced a range of  flower, herb and vegetable seeds for gardeners...

 

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How this year's Garden Re-Leaf Day funds will be used

Garden Re-Leaf Day (22 March), which has raised more than £600,000 since Boyd Douglas-Davies launched the first one in 2011, will help the completion this year of four more much-needed garden transformations at UK children's hospices...

 

Above: The garden Greenfingers created at Robin House children's hospice at Balloch.

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Challenges galore in another action-packed year for Greenfingers

 

Garden Re-Leaf Day, a 'Monte Carlo Rally', bi-plane wing-walking, a coast-to-coast cycle ride, golf days - and lots of supplier special promotions- are proof of the garden industry's undiminished commitment to the Greenfingers charity...

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