With 39 centres out of 145 sold as we approach Christmas, Wyevale Garden Centres appear to be streamlining their staffing levels as they prepare what's left of the UK's biggest Garden Centre group for trading in 2019...

Corby & Fellas are delighted to announce that, yet another prestigious garden centre - The Old Railway Line Garden Centre in Brecon, Powys - has installed WinRetail, the powerful, comprehensive and fully integrated Retail Management EPoS, E-commerce and Retail Management System...

After a fantastic 2018, Primeur expand their team with agents to help with the demand for their award-winning products...

No snow made for a joyous time in garden centres last week.  Christmas sales reached a new high and with footfall significantly up compared to last year when we had our first dump of snow, all of the GTN Bestsellers sales indexes for the week were up with the exception of Wild Bird Care...

Plant sales rallied as garden centre footfalls reached peak levels pre-Christmas to deliver sales up 13% on the same week last year.  Poinsettia sales soared to reach No 1 but didn’t quite hit the peaks of last year.  Perhaps this year’s peak Poinsettia sales will come over the next two weeks...

The HTA will be returning to RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2019 with a Discovery Zone exhibit titled ‘Helping Children Grow’, promoting National Children’s Gardening Week...

‘Charity begins at home’, or so the saying goes.  But for those people who find themselves without a home charity is even more important, and with this in mind colleagues at Bents Garden & Home have been busy creating and collecting Christmas gift boxes for the homeless...

A new Horticultural Research Scholarship has been launched by the David Colegrave Foundation (DCF) to support applied research in the horticulture industry...

Dobbies has apologised to a three-year-old boy who was turned away from a Santa's grotto at its Gailey centre in Staffordshire because he wasn't on Father Christmas's list...

Johnsons Garden Centre Sales, which supplies plants to independent garden centres, has put ambitious plans in place for 2019 following a year of strong growth...

Sunshine Garden Centre in London has been crowned National Winner of the Taylors Autumn 2108 Bulbland competition...

Bradford Council has passed Tong Garden Centre's £4 million plans for  major expansion due to start in January... 

Haskins Garden Centre in Crawley has announced its continued support of Alzheimer’s Society until 2020. Haskins in Snowhill has been fundraising and raising awareness for the charity since January 2017 and now the popular garden centre has revealed its continued support over the coming years...

With environmental issues at the forefront of many consumer spending decisions, corporate responsibility is high on the agenda for Premier Decorations Ltd; and the company is delighted to announce its award of FSC® Chain of Custody certification...

The Daily Mail had some online festive fun at the expense of Bents Garden & Home, in a report by Jan Moir sending up its “wagtastic Christmas decorations”...

The HTA’s ‘Gardening is good for you’ campaign will set out to help the industry to press home the many benefits of gardens and gardening to health and wellbeing...

IPM Essen, the increasingly popular German plant show, says 17 countries will exhibit in national groups at the 2019 event next month...

Candlelight Products Ltd will be revealing its extended own-brand candle collection at Spring Fair 2019 in February...