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Dobbies Garden Centres announces the acquisition of 31 centres from Wyevale - strengthening its position as the UK’s leading garden centre operator
So what 31 Wyevale centres have been sold to Dobbies?
£194m generated from Wyevale sales so far, but who will be the buyers of the remaining 90?
Wyevale Garden Centres agrees sale of six more garden centres...four to Hilliers and two to Otter
Haskins in multi-million pound finance deal with HSBC UK
Mother's Day gets March 2019 sales volumes up to average
Garden Re-Leaf Day total on track for £70k
Plants are the star performers for Mother's Day
SafeLawn campaign to drive lawncare success
Haskins Snowhill trades from temporary building
SOLEX will be packed full of freshest designs from 60 LOFA members
Evergreen Garden Care's £3.5m campaign on TV now
Garden Birdwatch reveals mixed news for Britain's birds
Student grower's joy after winning £2k scholarship award
Hillier to blend contemporary and traditional design for RHS Chelsea 2019
Hillier announces new plants to be launched at Chelsea
Garden Centre Photo Tour - Forest Lodge
Bents raises £26k for Warrington hospice
See latest new plants under one roof in the Netherlands
Squires offer free soil testing service
Nursery steps up UK sales drive with young plants push
Garden Centre Photo Tour - Hillier Botley
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Thanksgiving service for Mike Dunnett
New garden centre thanks customers for support
Garden products up by 37% for March
Gardening is Good for You: May themes
Growing Media volumes up 8% on 2017
Emily joins Wyevale Nurseries as HR Manager
Sipcam adds ferric phosphate slug killer ahead of metaldehyde ban
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Veg-2-Gro sales volumes bounce back to normal
Wyevale Nurseries to propagate award-winning pyracantha
Bird Care down 31% vs 2017 for March
'Army' of RHS gardeners has huge benefit for the environment and wellbeing says new survey
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APAC to build new centre next door to Wyevale at Leicester
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'Army' of RHS gardeners has huge benefit for the environment and wellbeing says new survey

The RHS is expanding its Greening Grey Britain campaign to Greening Great Britain to promote that growing more plants in any setting is vital for the environment and our health and wellbeing.

 

A new survey has revealed the extent of RHS members’ gardening activities and the broadened campaign, which still encompasses the importance of greening the grey, better recognises the significant impact they are making by adding some 22 million plants to their gardens each year and the wider work of the charity.

 

The area of new plants grown by RHS members last year is the size of 350 football pitches. Within the 22 million plants, at least 157,270 trees were introduced, creating the equivalent of 98 hectares of forest.

 

Sue Biggs, RHS Director General, says:  “We know most of our members are active gardeners, but these figures are stunning and exceeded our expectations with the amount, and diversity, of plants they are adding each year.  This is immensely positive for wildlife, the environment and numerous other benefits, including cooling local areas in summer, flood protection, air quality improvement, noise reduction and wellbeing benefits.”

 

Some 77% of members chose plants for bees, with 44% also saying they selected plants for other pollinators.  Only 15% of members didn’t choose any plants with wildlife in mind.

 

Thousands of Bloom volunteers also continually enhance established community gardens.  RHS Bloom and It’s Your Neighbourhood Groups plant 176,006 trees, 966,065 shrubs and 10,606 bulbs per year. The RHS is likewise bringing more horticultural highlights to the RHS’s four gardens and is currently creating a whole new garden at Bridgewater in Salford.

 

Visitors to RHS Gardens last year bought just under a million garden plants including trees, shrubs, herbaceous roses and alpines, on top of this they purchased over one million bulbs and over 110,000 packets of seeds.

 

Sue added: “Without the plants our gardeners grow we would have fewer insects, wildlife, bees, beauty and benefits to the environment.

 

“We would have less nature, seasonality and colour in our front and back gardens; and if we didn’t have our ‘army of gardeners’ we wouldn’t have the rich and beautiful diversity we are so famed for and so good at maintaining.

 

“Through Greening Great Britain with all our amazing supporters we’ll continue to champion why gardening and growing more plants matters.”

 

The survey found that 96% of members believe in the health benefits of gardening and 95% view that gardening is beneficial to the environment.

 

The RHS’s 500,000 Members are also happy to share their gardening knowledge, with nearly 80% having helped family or friends with gardening needs.

 

Since the RHS launched its’ Greening Grey Britain Campaign in 2015, the Greening Grey Britain Report has been raised in The London Assembly, the charity held a Front Garden Summit in 2016 where policymakers, developers, planners and landscapers discussed solutions to start making a difference and 128 grants have been giving to communities to turn grey spaces green.  The RHS hosted a conference at Tatton Park Flower Show in 2018 to highlight the importance of greening urban spaces and its last three gardens from RHS Chelsea Flower Show have all transformed grey spaces to green after the show.

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