In This Issue
Reasons to be Cheerful - Parts 1, 2 and 3
Garden Pride Marketing – New Ranges!
Fire destroys Strikes Stokesley Garden Centre
Gardman "able to provide a basic service and provide it very well" from Kings Lynn site
Can we catch up by the end of June?
Fryer's wins Blue Diamond Best Garden Centre award
How organic matter can enhance soil condition
Rivendell & Dukeries win Best Notcutts Performance award
Bicester-based E P Barrus Ltd adds WD-40 to portfolio
DCF invests in the horticulturalists of tomorrow
Bents donates more than £22k to Alzheimer's Society
Entry to GIMA Awards 2018 now open...
New study shows climate change is wreaking havoc on delicate relationship between orchids and bees
Squire’s teach children how to grow their own chips
Headline sponsor of National Garden Scheme contest
Children's cancer charity supported by garden centre
Kerley Primulas win RHS First Class Certificates
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Marathon run for Gardman Chairman
Garden centre manager jailed for stealing more than £30,000
Three suspected burglars arrested at Cheshire garden centre
Lawn care sales are a sign of what's to come
Too wet for growing – 12% up needed for next three months
Early Easter boost for tomato plants
New entries fill the gaps on bird care shelves
Tomatoes and herbs dominate veg plant sales
New appointment at Charles Taylor
New Mr Men Little Miss range from T&M
Great range of plugs and liners from Seiont Nurseries
RHS seed ranges now in over 500 outlets in UK
Association of Professional Landscapers appoint new chairman as Ken White steps down
The best of last week's
Owner sought for Home & Garden Group
New Blue Diamond centre takes £250k ex vat in first 7 days
Christmas department at Haskins Garden Centres now open due to high demand
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Reasons to be Cheerful - Parts 1, 2 and 3

1.  Last weeks sales were 2.1% above the average for the first week of April over the past seven years...

2. The Met Office is forecasting much better weather over the next 10 day period...

3.  Easter in March rarely gives a boost to sales, so it's all to play for during April and May...

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Garden Pride Marketing – New Ranges!
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Garden Pride has been trading for nearly 30 years and 2017 saw the relaunch of the business at GLEE where the reins were passed over to the second generation! The business has made some huge steps into brand recognition, product development and manufacturing since then...

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Fire destroys Strikes Stokesley Garden Centre

A major fire that broke out on Friday night has destroyed Strikes Stokesley Garden Centre...

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Gardman "able to provide a basic service and provide it very well" from Kings Lynn site
Even bamboo canes will be back in stock this week as 1200 lines are available for ordering

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It may be a long way from the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark when they put the Ark of the Covenant away in that warehouse as Pete Utting, CEO of Gardman, described their new 70,000 pallet space warehouse at Daventry which burned to the ground last month, but the calm workman like atmosphere in three of the re-established old Gardman warehouses should fill garden centre retailers with confidence that as soon as the products are back in stock, deliveries will be back up to the standard set and expected by Gardman prior to the Daventry move...

 

See GTN Xtra's photos from Kings Lynn last Friday and feedback from garden centres
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Can we catch up by the end of June?

 

Having to close on Easter Sunday, right at the end of month didn’t help sales at all, which meant that the GTN Bestsellers All Product Sales index for the month was lower than 2013, 35% down on March 2017 and 32% down on the average for March between 2011 and 2017...

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Fryer's wins Blue Diamond Best Garden Centre award

 

Fryer's Garden Centre in Knutsford has been awarded a prestigious gong for the second year running rising up from a shortlist of 20 to win. The Manchester Road centre won the Blue Diamond Best Garden Centre for the year of 2017 beating 19 others.

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How organic matter can enhance soil condition
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It’s that time of year to apply organic matter such as Bathgate Horticulture’s Blended Farm Manure, to help improve the condition of the soil in your beds and borders...

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Rivendell & Dukeries win Best Notcutts Performance award

 

Two Notcutts garden centres – Rivendell and Dukeries – were joint winners of the ‘Best Garden Centre Performance’ award at the company's March conference...

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Bicester-based E P Barrus Ltd adds WD-40 to portfolio

E P Barrus Ltd has added WD-40, one of the best-known brands of multi-use penetrating oil spray and lubricants, to its wide-ranging gardening portfolio...

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DCF invests in the horticulturalists of tomorrow

 

Six students studying horticulture have been awarded £8,500 worth of scholarships by the David Colegrave Foundation (DCF)...

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Bents donates more than £22k to Alzheimer's Society
 

Customers and colleagues have once again shown enormous generosity in helping Bents Garden & Home raise an incredible amount for its 2017 Charity of the Year...

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Entry to GIMA Awards 2018 now open...

The GIMA Awards are set to return on July 12 at Celtic Manor with another glittering night of celebrations. Entry to this year’s awards is now open – with suppliers being urged to not miss out on their chance to win one of the industry’s highest accolades...

 

 

Westland Horticulture winning the 2017 Sword of Excellence with SafeLawn.

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New study shows climate change is wreaking havoc on delicate relationship between orchids and bees
 

The first definitive demonstration of climate change upsetting the vital interdependent relationships between species has been revealed, thanks to a study led by the University of Sussex...

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Squire’s teach children how to grow their own chips

 

Hundreds of local school children visited Squire’s Garden Centres at the end of March to take part in a “Grow Your Own Chips” session...

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Headline sponsor of National Garden Scheme contest
 

WOLF-Garten has partnered with the National Garden Scheme (NGS) as headline sponsor of its 2018 photography competition...

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Children's cancer charity supported by garden centre

 

The team at Tong Garden Centre has announced that Leeds based children's cancer charity, Candlelighters, will be its Charity of the Year for 2018...

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Kerley Primulas win RHS First Class Certificates

Four of the Kerley families Primula Belarina Series have been awarded RHS First Class Certificates. The culitvars receiving this award are Primula Belarina ‘Buttercup’, P. B. ‘Nectarine’, P. B ‘Snow’ (above) and P. B. Valentine’...

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