In This Issue
'Love the Plot' goes live at Ally Pally with great results
New Percy Thrower's Wyevale honours UK's first celebrity gardener
Cold weather takes shine off Mother's Day sales
GCA announces new area chairmen with one still to fill
Lighting shines as gardeners prepare to get active...
PM's chef at Chequers makes Easter Egg for Garden Re-Leaf Day
Bucktons pigeon range flies out at PATS
App puts Kelkay customer service at stockists' fingertips
Wyevale is unique glue's first garden centre listing
La Hacienda’s new showroom kick starts thriving year
There's still time to run your Greenfingers Garden Re‐Leaf Quiz
Wyevale Garden Centres faced with petition over Raglan
Landscape Director - Yorkshire and the Humber
Retail Operations Manager - East Sussex
Nursery Supervisor - West Midlands
Garden Centre Manager - East Sussex
Motorists parking without permission at garden centre blocked in by compost bags
Compost and top soil sales given a boost
Yankee Candles worth hundreds of pounds stolen from Rosebank
Young tomato plants dominate veg sales
Planting Magic garden centre tour for Charlie
Gardening Which? compost tests throw up another crop of surprises
Wickes list Dansand No Weed patio joint filler
Mr Fothergill appoint new salesman for A1 corridor
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'Love the Plot' goes live at Ally Pally with great results


The launch of the ‘Love the Plot You’ve Got’ Roadshow has been given a massive thumbs-up by visitors to Good Life Live at Alexandra Palace this weekend with comments like: "This is great because we are new to gardening"...
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New Percy Thrower's Wyevale honours UK's first celebrity gardener

Wyevale Garden Centres was joined by celebrity gardener Toby Buckland as it celebrated the opening of the new Percy Thrower’s Wyevale Garden Centre near Shrewsbury on Friday.  "We've been overwhelmed by the reaction from customers and by sales levels..."



Above: Toby Buckland takes a selfie with two of Percy Thrower's daughter at the opening of the new centre.

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Cold weather takes shine off Mother's Day sales
...Use Garden Re-Leaf Day next Friday to kick-start the season
 

After a disappointingly cold Mother’s Day, Garden Re-Leaf Day is the next great opportunity to get sales going this season. GTN Bestsellers data shows that while garden centre transactions increased week on week, the cold weather certainly took any potential shine off Mother’s Day with sales down 12% on the same week last year...

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GCA announces new area chairmen with one still to fill
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The Garden Centre Association has revealed ts new area chairmen who will represent member garden centres in each GCA region...
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Lighting shines as gardeners prepare to get active...


Garden lighting products continue to dominate the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products chart although gardeners are starting to buy items they can use when the weather gets warmer.
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PM's chef at Chequers makes Easter Egg for Garden Re-Leaf Day
 

The Prime Minister's personal chef at Chequers has made a special Easter Egg to be auctioned on Garden Re-Leaf Day next Friday, with all the proceeds going to the Greenfingers charity...

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Bucktons pigeon range flies out at PATS




The New Bucktons Superior Plus pigeon range, showcased at the PATS Sandown trade show this week, was enthusiastically received by trade retailers, parent company Westland reported...

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App puts Kelkay customer service at stockists' fingertips
Landscape products and materials supplier Kelkay has launched a customer experience app...
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Wyevale is unique glue's first garden centre listing


Sugru, a mouldable glue recently named ‘Best DIY Product 2015’ by the British Hardware Federation, earns its first garden centre listing, with Wyevale, this spring...
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La Hacienda’s new showroom kick starts thriving year
 
As La Hacienda turns 25, the company has never been in a better position to further expand its offering, and its recent showroom opening event is just the start of the exciting plans for the year ahead...
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There's still time to run your Greenfingers Garden Re‐Leaf Quiz

Horticultural celebrities from TV and radio have been busy recording questions, wearing Glovies of course, for the 2015 Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day Quiz...
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Wyevale Garden Centres faced with petition over Raglan


An online petition has been launched urging Wyevale Garden Centres to sell Raglan Garden Centre in Monmouthshire back to an independent owner...
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