In This Issue
Bunnings No 2 - exclusive picture tour
Garden centres count the cost of Easter Sunday closing
Woodstock Chimes – musical perfection with a Lifetime Tuning Guarantee
Growing is on the up at Aylett Nurseries
Transformation of garden centre into shopping complex
Westland Gro-Sure TV campaign starts this week
We're committed to retailers says T&M's new owner
Dramatic van fire at Perrywood caught on video
From Mosquito Bombers to first UK garden centres
Chessington expands into lucrative new business areas
A month later the Scotsdales' Plant-a-thon comes to an end
EGO ramps up its petrol takeover with sponsorship of Britain’s Best Lawn 2017
Pictures from Garden Re-Leaf Day Down Under
Easter Flowers at the Vatican
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No rush to appoint new CEO at HTA
Plants lead the way at Easter
Celebrated jump jockeyto host GIMA Charity Golf and Activity Day Dinner
Lights and lawns take the spotlight
Fern sales up 44% year on year, say Wyevale Nurseries
Tomato plants outsell pot geraniums
Easter closure hits growing media growth
Selbooks Ltd takes over Selnews
GIMA names awards judging panel
Hillier's Chelsea garden will feature a Memory Tree
Babycare changing room wins award for Dobbies Edinburgh
Royal FloraHolland trades 12.5 billion flowers and plants in 2016
13 orchid growers combine their inspiration during Orchid Inspiration Days
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Bunnings No 2 - exclusive picture tour


Bunnings second UK store opened just before Easter at Hatfield Road, St Albans.  GTN Xtra paid a visit this week to see how the Bunnings concept had been delivered in a much smaller footprint than the first store at Griffiths Way, St. Albans...

See the GTN Xtra exclusive picture tour of the centre here
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Garden centres count the cost of Easter Sunday closing


After a long period of great gardening weather which continued over the Easter weekend this year, the sales data analysed by GTN for Bestsellers gives us the best indication of the cost of losing a whole day’s trading at a time when our customers are in the mood to decorate their gardens and prepare for the summer...
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Woodstock Chimes – musical perfection with a Lifetime Tuning Guarantee
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Woodstock Chimes have a strong commitment to precise tuning. The company are so proud of the music made by their chimes, all the metal-tubed musically tuned chimes come with a Lifetime Tuning Guarantee...

Pictured: Woodstock Chimes UK’s best-selling Bells of Paradise – Large, Pacific Blue is tuned to an ancient Chinese scale.

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Growing is on the up at Aylett Nurseries


Wonderwalls, veg growing frames and hanging baskets galore.  Growing is definately on the up at Aylett Nurseries this year...
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Transformation of garden centre into shopping complex


Smiemans Projecten has transformed a traditional garden centre into an inspiring shopping environment of the well-known chain Avoca in Ireland, Dublin...
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Westland Gro-Sure TV campaign starts this week
Westland’s ‘Be Sure with Gro-Sure’ campaign returns to TV screens this week as part of an ad campaign designed to reach 14 million consumers between now and the end of May...

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We're committed to retailers says T&M's new owner

Thompson & Morgan has reiterated its commitment to retailers following the recent BVG takeover by multi-channel retailer BVG...

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Dramatic van fire at Perrywood caught on video


A dramatic van fire in the car park at Perrywood Garden Centre was caught on video and can now be viewed on YouTube...
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From Mosquito Bombers to first UK garden centres


Martin Stewart, Managing Director of the Dorset based Stewarts Garden Centres, achieved a lifelong ambition to sit the cockpit of a World War Two de Havilland Mosquito bomber, the type that his father flew in action with the RAF’s 82 Squadron in Burma...
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Chessington expands into lucrative new business areas


Chessington Garden Centre is using an innovative Microsoft system to launch into new areas including garden design and a new 'click and collect' service...
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A month later the Scotsdales' Plant-a-thon comes to an end


The team from Scotsdales Cambridge couldn't hold their Plant-a-thon on Garden Re-Leaf Day because they were organising and taking part in The Great Garden Re-Leaf Day Greenfingers Walk but it didn't stop them from staging the event at a later date...
See pictures from Scotsdales Palnt-A-Thon
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EGO ramps up its petrol takeover with sponsorship of Britain’s Best Lawn 2017
The hunt to find Britain’s Best Lawn is back!
 
EGO Power+, the specialists and leaders of cordless technology, is now the proud sponsor of Britain’s Best Lawn, leading the garden tools revolution that is tackling petrol tools head on...
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Pictures from Garden Re-Leaf Day Down Under


Leigh Siebler from the Garden Centres Association of Australia has sent GTN Xtra some pictures from Garden Re-Leaf Day Down Under...
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Easter Flowers at the Vatican


Last week we brought you pictures of flowers leaving the Keukenhof in Holland destined for the Vatican City in Rome.  Here are pictures of the displays created...
See pictures of the flowers in the Vatican at Easter 2017
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