In This Issue
Evergreen Garden Care launches ‘keep growing’ campaign to modernise gardening
Westland Boost TV Advert goes live for Easter
Blue Diamond open The Parlour Edwardian restaurant in Spalding
Hozelock embraces rise in urban gardening with Micro Reel
Sniffe & Likkit takes aim at gifting market
Mother’s Day record helps total sales to 15% up
Tomatoes lead the way post the Primula boom
Greenfingers runners raise over £11k at London Landmarks Half Marathon
Hannah at Perrywood wins national book award
The Blue Diamond Group - supporting the relief effort in Ukraine
Meet the new brands confirmed for Glee 2022
HTA welcomes EFRA Committee report findings on workforce shortages
Team Zest runs Manchester Marathon in support of BHF
Cian takes root & grows into senior role at Wyevale Nurseries
LAVA-LITE looks to recruit national sales agents
LifestyleGarden® celebrates finalist status at the 2022 Brand & Lifestyle Licensing Awards
Flying start for PLANTARIUM|GROEN-Direkt fair
Large turnout for first seasonal fair in two years
Ronseal launches Ultimate Fence Life Concentrate in all major stockists
36 pages of Garden Centre Christmas Greatness - GTN Jan-Feb Issue On-line now
Get your copy of GTN Xtra
YPHA member to open plant boutique in Ross-on-Wye
Garden product sales hold their own
The David Colegrave Foundation announce winners of the first Blue Diamond Scholarships
No shortage of Veg-2-Gro sales
Pershore students to create Peter Seabrook tribute garden at BBC Gardeners World Live
Growing Media up by 26% on 2019 so far this year
Ian Riggs joins Naturagrow
Wild Bird Care doesn’t fly in March
Young Designers tackle the big issues at RHS Flower Show Tatton Park 2022
Visitor registration now open for Casual Dining, Commercial Kitchen & lunch!
The best of last week's
Horticultural April Fools create smiles and thousands of social media views
Hatton makes it a hat-trick for British Garden Centres - Group grows to 61 centres
Hollybush GC implements @WinRetail system
MP Michael Gove hears of challenges for horticulture on visit to North Hill Nurseries
GTN’s Greatest Christmas Award winners revealed
ACW Garden Centre - Christmas 2021
Allbrighton - British Garden Centres - Christmas 2021
Alton Garden Centre - Christmas 2021
Aylett Nurseries - Christmas 202
Barton Grange Garden Centre - Christmas 2021
Baytree Garden Centre - Christmas 2021
Bents Garden & Home - Christmas 2021
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Evergreen Garden Care launches ‘keep growing’ campaign to modernise gardening

Evergreen Garden Care has launched its new campaign, ‘Keep Growing’. A campaign that takes a fresh perspective on gardening - that it can be relatable, exciting, and enjoyable, while also being functional...

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Westland Boost TV Advert goes live for Easter

Watch the Westland Boost plant feed TV advert that broke on National TV last night and get a glimpse of behind the scenes while the ad was created...

 

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Blue Diamond open The Parlour Edwardian restaurant in Spalding

Blue Diamond Garden Centres have opened The Parlour, an Edwardian restaurant in Springfields Shopping Centre, Spalding...

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Hozelock embraces rise in urban gardening with Micro Reel
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Over the past couple of years, an increasing number of people have embraced gardening in small spaces, whether it is a courtyard, terrace garden or a balcony, to create a green retreat out of the space they have available...

 

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Sniffe & Likkit takes aim at gifting market
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Sniffe & Likkit, the fast-growing British dog grooming and treats firm, has created two new SKUs to maximise gifting opportunities for retailers across all categories...

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Mother’s Day record helps total sales to 15% up

After Mother’s Day set a new record March week for volume sales, cooler weather at the start and end of the month meant the GTN Bestsellers volume sales index closed 18% down for March, but year to date up 15% on 2021 and 23% up on 2019...

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Tomatoes lead the way post the Primula boom

Plant sales so far this year have matched 2021 levels, despite the poor weather weeks of March which led to the month being 23% down on 2021.

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Greenfingers runners raise over £11k at London Landmarks Half Marathon

 

 

Last weekend (Sunday April 3rd) 11 runners tackled the London Landmarks Half Marathon all in the name of Greenfingers, together raising over £11,000 for the children’s hospice garden charity...

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Hannah at Perrywood wins national book award

Hannah Powell’s memoir The Cactus Surgeon has been awarded the winner of the Selfies UK Book Awards in the memoir/autobiography category. These national awards recognise the UK’s best indie-published books...

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The Blue Diamond Group - supporting the relief effort in Ukraine
 

The Blue Diamond Group of Garden Centres are donating 100% of the sale proceeds for the ‘Peace’ rose to the Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal, amounting to more than £10,000 in donations which will be paid to the British Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal and supporting the effort by paying £3,500 for the costs of fuelling 8 aircraft that departed this weekend from Southend Airport full of medical supplies...

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Meet the new brands confirmed for Glee 2022

With gardening booming and the value of exhibitions stronger than ever, it will come as no surprise that Glee 2022 – taking place in late June 28th – 30th – at the NEC Birmingham – will be a hotbed of new and emerging brands, all ready and willing to build new retail partnerships with buyers from across the UK garden centre network. Here, these new names at Glee introduce themselves and tell us what they’ll have in store for the show this summer...

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HTA welcomes EFRA Committee report findings on workforce shortages

The Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs Committee has published its Labour shortages in the food and farming sector report highlighting growing concerns for the significant number of roles going unfilled in the farming industry...

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Team Zest runs Manchester Marathon in support of BHF
 

 

 

A team of 18 employees and members of its key Polish product supply partner from Zest, the garden furniture, grow your own and decorative garden structure specialist ran the Manchester Marathon on 3rd April in support of the company’s 2022 chosen charity, the British Heart Foundation (BHF)...

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Cian takes root & grows into senior role at Wyevale Nurseries

Cian Lynch has this month been appointed as Senior Business Support Administrator for the Transplant team at Wyevale Nurseries in Herefordshire...

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LAVA-LITE looks to recruit national sales agents
 

LAVA-LITE, manufacturer of 100% natural, non-toxic and sustainable horticultural products, supplying garden centres and retailers throughout the UK, is looking to recruit for its team of national sales agents...

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LifestyleGarden® celebrates finalist status at the 2022 Brand & Lifestyle Licensing Awards

Made from 3.5kgs of recycled ropes and nets from the maritime industry, fully recyclable, and having helped to recycle 240,000kgs (240 tonnes) of ocean plastic to-date, it may come as no surprise that the ground-breaking DuraOcean® from LifestyleGarden®, and created in partnership with the Eden Project, has scooped a coveted finalist status at the forthcoming Brand & Lifestyle Licensing Awards (B&LLA) on 24th April...

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Flying start for PLANTARIUM|GROEN-Direkt fair

Two weeks after the opening of the registration of exhibitors for the PLANTARIUM|GROEN-Direkt trade fair a quarter of the available floor space has already been sold. Exhibitors have a choice of three presentation concepts: Basic, Comfort and Premium, of which the Comfort version is proving particularly popular...

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Large turnout for first seasonal fair in two years

Due to COVID-19, GROEN-Direkt could not organize seasonal fairs in the desired form with exhibitors for two years. On Monday 4 and Tuesday 5 April, this was broken and the first major seasonal fair with exhibitors took place: the GROEN-Direkt Spring Days.

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Ronseal launches Ultimate Fence Life Concentrate in all major stockists

Leading woodcare brand, Ronseal, has announced the launch of Ultimate Fence Life Concentrate, its most ground-breaking fence care product yet. ..

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36 pages of Garden Centre Christmas Greatness - GTN Jan-Feb Issue On-line now

GTN’s Greatest Christmas Awards Special Issue - 36 pages of Garden Centre Christmas Greatness.

 

In this issue:

  • Peter Seabrook “Mr Gardening”.
  • A record year for Choice Marketing.
  • Thinking outside of the box 4 – Pughs Garden Kitchen.
  • GCA Awards for 2021. Cultivation Street 2022.
  • GTN’s Greatest Christmas Awards. 
    Christmas at: Altons, Aylett Nurseries, Barton Grange, Bents, Blue Diamond, British Garden Centres, Cherry Lane Podington, Downtown, Fron Goch, Garsons Esher, Gates Garden Centre, Hillmount Cheshire, Little Dobbies Richmond, Millbrook Gravesend, Newquay Garden Centre, Pengelly, Planters, Pughs, Rosebourne, Sapcote Garden Centre, Silverbirch, Squires Badshot Lea, The Old Railway Line, Webbs of Wychbold, Woodlands, Kent.
  • The Greatest Christmas Awards judges and sponsors.
  • BBQ Gourmet – LOFA Member Profile.
  • HTA Column – Christmas is here to stay.
  • Garden Re-Leaf Day 2022-What are your plans for the Big Day?
Read the issue on-line here
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