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A bittersweet moment says Scott CEO as he announces UK, Europe and Aussie sell-off
Scots strip off for World Naked Gardening Day
Cold winds blow heat out of Easter sales
Looking good...summer colour beats the biting winds
Gardena opens first UK Ambassador Store at Gordale
Burgon & Ball spades chosen for groundbreaking at Taittinger's new UK vineyard
Smiemans project is a technical tour de force
From north to south, Kelkay has garden centres covered
Bonanza April for veg plant sales
Fleuroselect name pelargonium in Sally's honour
Blue Diamond name Fryer's as best centre of 2016
Why Thrive's Faith Ramsay swopped banking for garden design
More halls, more ideas at spoga+gafa in September 2017
Sales Executive - South of England
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Garden product sales ahead of 2016...but behind 2014 peak
Peckish ready to 'unlock' birdcare category says Westland
Another record as growing media boom continues
Garsons voted best garden centres for gifts in trade magazine awards
GMOs in Petunias
Does foliar feeding help attract bees? Read on...
BOPP 21st birthday event planned for ornamentals sector
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
Dobbies announce new restaurant team
Cotswold Fayre partners with Chilled Logistics to expand reach
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A bittersweet moment says Scott CEO as he announces UK, Europe and Aussie sell-off



You almost detect a tear in his eye as Scotts Miracle-Gro’s CEO Jim Hagedorn, admitting that the garden industry in the UK was more competititve than the US, told investors after last week's sell-off announcement: “This is a bit of a bittersweet moment for us...”

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Scots strip off for World Naked Gardening Day
 


Just in case you missed it, yesterday was Wolrd Naked Gardening Day and the scots in the UK garden retailing sector were the most prolific of partcipants...
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Cold winds blow heat out of Easter sales

As predicted the cold winds blew garden centre sales off course. Volume sales for the last week of April in the GTN Bestsellers charts ending the month up 9.5% on April last year but nowhere near the record high of 2011 or the recent high of 2015...

 

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Looking good...summer colour beats the biting winds
Brightly coloured osteospermums and begonias that are looking good were among the big movers in terms of increased volume sales reported by GTN Bestsellers last week ...


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Gardena opens first UK Ambassador Store at Gordale
Gardena has opened its first UK Ambassador Store at Gordale Nurseries garden centre on the Wirral...



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Burgon & Ball spades chosen for groundbreaking at Taittinger's new UK vineyard

Garden tools and accessories manufacturer Burgon & Ball helped world-famous Champagne house Taittinger make history last week by providing spades to break first ground at its new vineyard in Kent... 

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Smiemans project is a technical tour de force

A stunning conference centre built by Smiemans, who have provided many UK garden centres with new buildings, was opened recently at Baarn in the Netherlands.



 
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Dobbies announce new restaurant team


Dobbies Garden Centres has announced that there will be three top industry professionals joining its restaurant team...
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Cotswold Fayre partners with Chilled Logistics to expand reach

Fine food distributor Cotswold Fayre is developing its chilled operation by partnering with Chilled Logistics to extend distribution...

  

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From north to south, Kelkay has garden centres covered



The Kelkay sales team’s commitment to servicing garden centres has enabled the company to expand deliveries to hundreds of businesses the length and breadth of the UK...
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Bonanza April for veg plant sales




The GTN Bestsellers Veg2Gro index joined growing media in bucking the downward sales trend, recording a 21% increase over the same week in 2016...
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Fleuroselect name pelargonium in Sally's honour
Sally van der Horst, secretary of Fleuroselect in Noordwijk was taken by surprise last week when she learned that a new pelargonium had been named after her...

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Blue Diamond name Fryer's as best centre of 2016

Fryer’s Garden Centre at Knutsford was named as Blue Diamond’s Best Garden Centre of 2016 at the group’s annual awards...

 
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Why Thrive's Faith Ramsay swopped banking for garden design






Thrive’s new chair of trustees, Faith Ramsay, gave up a lucrative banking career and became a garden designer in the interests of her phyiscal and mental health...

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More halls, more ideas at spoga+gafa in September 2017


The team from spoga+gafa announced details of this years trade fair to members of the European Garden Trade press at an event in Rome last week...
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