In This Issue
Bunnings Warehouse store opens in Folkestone
Glee Buyers Power List 2017: the shortlist
Woodstock Chimes – It’s All About the Sound
Will Summer grottos solve the summer dip in sales?
Evergreen Enterprises prepares to launch Spring 2018 Home Decor range
Busy season sees Vitax grow
New products on display across many garden industry sectors on British stands at spoga+gafa
Outback barbecues cook up record SOLEX show success
Decco launches Johnston & Jeff brand Birdcare
Bents, Cowells, Fron Goch and Tong are GCA regional winners in the North
Greenfingers Charity Garden opened by TV gardener Adam Frost at Keech Hospice, Luton
Europe’s First 'Tipping Plank' comes to Sky Trail at Planters
Over fifties are "playing" in the garden
Mediterranean-style garden opens at Notcutts Staines to inspire local gardeners
Fire destroys Pet Shop at garden centre
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John Stanley - Developing a new experience in an Amazon World
Garden lighting reaches new highs
Xylella fastidiosa - a threat to the U.K. Horticulture industry
Taylors Maris Peer back to No 1
Calibrachoa MiniFamous® Double PinkTastic wins FleuroStar Award
Summer colour plant sales brightens patios and borders
Wyevale Nurseries say the shrub is back!
Special mix for growing media
spoga gafa 2017: Excellent final home sprint
Distinctively Different Plants!
More pond plants banned from sale by the EU
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Bunnings Warehouse store opens in Folkestone


British skeleton Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold MBE is joining a welcome breakfast for team members at the opening of the fifth Bunnings Warehouse store this morning, in Folkestone, Kent...
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Glee Buyers Power List 2017: the shortlist

The 2017 Glee Buyers Power List shortlist has been announced and now everyone in the industry is invited to vote before August 25th to decide the winners.

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Blue Diamond (above) were winners in the Glee Buyers Power List 2016.  Who will win in 2017, you can decide...

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Woodstock Chimes – It’s All About the Sound
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Woodstock Chimes founder and owner, Garry Kvistad, created the first windchime tuned to specific musical notes. In the 1970s he was fascinated by the scale of Olympos, a musical scale from the 7th century B.C., that couldn’t be played on modern instruments. Inspiration struck when he realised he could cut and tune aluminium tubes to the exact frequencies of that ancient scale, and just like that the first musically tuned windchime was born! Garry continues to be the talent behind the design and tuning of all Woodstock Chimes...

 

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Will Summer grottos solve the summer dip in sales?


As the school summer holidays arrive there is a flurry of new summer activities at garden centres this year...


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Evergreen Enterprises prepares to launch Spring 2018 Home Decor range
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Evergreen Enterprises is the #1 décor supplier to Garden Centres throughout the USA. In mid-August, they will release their Spring 2018 range for the UK.  As a sneak preview, here are a few of the new product categories you’ll see...
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Busy season sees Vitax grow


Vitax is investing in the expansion of its production facility in Skelmersdale and warehouse in Coalville to meet demand for the 2017/2018 season...
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New products on display across many garden industry sectors on British stands at spoga+gafa
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New garden products for growers are in abundance on exhibitors' stands in the British pavilion at spoga+gafa 2017...
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Outback barbecues cook up record SOLEX show success
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Decco launches Johnston & Jeff brand Birdcare
 



Decco has been appointed as the exclusive distributor for Johnston & Jeff premium quality bird food, feeders, feeding stations, bird tables and nest boxes...
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Bents, Cowells, Fron Goch and Tong are GCA regional winners in the North


Cowell’s Garden Centre won Garden Centre of the Year in the Garden Centre category and Tong Garden Centre received Garden Centre of the Year in the Destination Garden Centre category in the North East. In the North West Fron Goch Garden Centre, above, won best garden centre and Bents Garden & Home received the Destination Garden Centre award...
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Greenfingers Charity Garden opened by TV gardener Adam Frost at Keech Hospice, Luton



The 53rd therapeutic and recreational garden built by Greenfingers Charity in children’s hospices around the UK, designed by Adam Frost and supported by fundraising from Homebase, was opened in Luton last week...

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Robert Meaney appointed as Stewarts Abbey Garden Centre’s Catering Manager
Stewarts Garden Centres has appointed Robert Meaney, from Gosport, as Catering Manage for Abbey Garden Centre in Titchfield...
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Europe’s First 'Tipping Plank' comes to Sky Trail at Planters


Planters Garden Centre, Tamworth have installed two ‘Walk the plank’ elements in time for the 2017 school summer holidays. 
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Over fifties are "playing" in the garden


A survey by Squire’s Garden Centres has found that 84% of people surveyed have ‘played’ in the garden in the last year, by doing handstands, cartwheels, used a hula hoop or even run through a sprinkler just for fun! The statistics are even more interesting when you consider that the majority of respondents (85%) were aged fifty plus...
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Mediterranean-style garden opens at Notcutts Staines to inspire local gardeners



Notcutts in Staines has opened a new ‘Notcutts Garden’, designed by the expert Notcutts team, filled with beautiful plant combinations and aromas with a Mediterranean theme...

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Fire destroys Pet Shop at garden centre


Small animals including reptiles and amphibians, fish, rabbits, guinea pigs, mice, gerbils and insects and spiders, are reported to have died in a fire that destroyed the Pet Safari pet shop at Stephen H Smith's garden centre in Pool Road, Otley...
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