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Haskins are buying Forest Lodge Garden Centre
Barton Grange and Fron Goch win top GCA Awards
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Garden centres receive top awards at GCA conference
AMES has ambitious targets in 2020
Klondyke Group acquire Garden Wise Plant and Garden Centre, Dumfries
GCA appoints two new members to team of inspectors
Great start to January sales in garden centres
Mike Burks to take over as GCA Chairman for 2020/21
Rising Stars prepare for finale at GCA Conference
Westland puts £500k behind Peckish radio and press ads
Tributes to John Ashley as Sue Allen takes over Greenfingers Charity chair
HTA pushes councils to pick up plant pots at kerbside
David Domoney named as Evergreen Garden Care brand ambassador
Hillier unveils plans for 'greatest ever' Chelsea exhibit
New ERP system boosts efficiency and planning at Wyevale Nurseries
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Laurence Flatman dies
Snowdrop Festival gets under way in Scotland
Greening urban areas is priority for more Britain in Bloom entrants
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Laurence Flatman dies

Laurence Flatman died yesterday, 25th January 2020, aged 88 years. Laurence joined Alan Bloom at Bressingham when he left school and apart from two years National Service spent all his working life on Blooms Nurseries.

 

Peter Seabrook says of Laurence: "Laurence was a real Norfolk countryman who loved plants and served Blooms Nurseries with complete loyalty throughout his working life. His plant knowledge was remarkable and his reputation in the garden trade of the highest order.

 

"Whether it was direct with the public at shows, including the Chelsea Flower Show and on garden centres, or on the road and at home selling Blooms alpines, herbaceous and conifers he was generous with his knowledge and a great friend to many. He will be sorely missed, but not forgotten and lives on in hardy Geranium ‘Laurence Flatman’. I was fortunate to have known him, worked with him and count him a very good and dear friend."

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