In This Issue
Naked gardening gets an airing in Manchester...
Wanted: two cracking bank holiday weekends
Vitax and 6x are natural partners
Suttons grafted toms break Quantil chart stranglehold...just
Keukenhof bulb flower gardens draw in the crowds
Kelkay spend £1m on state-of-the-art machinery
The Chelsea plants that could start a new sales trend
HTA back calls for more research on neonics and pollinators
Get Ready for the Year of the Cosmos and Tomato
Paul Broadhurst to host GIMA Charity Golf Day
Stewart hint at new products for Glee
Garden Centre Manager - Morden Hall Park, Morden, London
Garden Shop Manager - Wiltshire
Plant Centre Manager - Nottinhamshire
Account Manager - Wiltshire
Nursery Retail Sales Person - Hertfordshire
Baskets and window boxes brighten up sales
Help customers dispose of unwanted garden care chemicals
Newsletter will help you plan FlowerTrials visit
Veg and young plants keep sales moving up on last year
HTA strike deal with ATM supplier
Young horticulturists line up for Grand Final
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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Catering conference will highlight local sourcing issue
Situations Vacant
Garden Centre Manager - Morden Hall Park, Morden, London
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Garden Shop Manager - Wiltshire
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Plant Centre Manager - Nottinhamshire
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Nursery Retail Sales Person - Hertfordshire
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Naked gardening gets an airing in Manchester...
Volunteer staff at Hulme Community Garden Centre near Manchester have been getting their kit off this week to publicise their centre ahead of World Naked Gardening Day today (2 May)...



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Wanted: two cracking bank holiday weekends


Year-on-year growth in the GTN Bestsellers charts is hard to come by at the moment. The big question now is: Will the weather warm up for the Bank Holiday week-end?...
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Vitax and 6x are natural partners
The takeover of the Organico company, producers of 6x fertilisers and chicken pellets by Vitax earlier this year, saw the coming together of two like-minded companies...

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Suttons grafted toms break Quantil chart stranglehold...just



Only Suttons manage to break Quantil's stranglehold in this week’s GTN Bestsellers Veg-2-Gro chart, and Scotch Bonnet chilli sales prove hot...

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Keukenhof bulb flower gardens draw in the crowds


Last week GTN joined the 800,000 visitors to the beautiful gardens to bring you this picture gallery...
See picture gallery from Keukenhof 2015
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Kelkay spend £1m on state-of-the-art machinery







Aggregates manufacturer and distributor Kelkay has invested £1 million in new state of the art machinery...

Right: Kelkay MD Anthony Harker.

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Catering conference will highlight local sourcing issue
Local sourcing will be a hot topic at the sixth HTA Catering Conference 2015, which takes place on 9 and 10 June 2015 at The Belfry...
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The Chelsea plants that could start a new sales trend




News is trickling through of the many new plants that could spark new sales trends after their unveiling at this months's RHS Chelsea Flower Show...

Pictured: Verbascum 'Firedance'  to be shown by Hardy's.
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HTA back calls for more research on neonics and pollinators

The HTA re-stated its support this week for Defra’s National Pollinator Initiative and its commitment to researching pollinator health, in the light of the current EU ban on neonicotinoids...

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Get Ready for the Year of the Cosmos and Tomato
Fleuroselect’s Home Garden Association has issued trade visual identity guidelines for the ‘2016 - Year of the Cosmos/Tomato’ campaign...
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Paul Broadhurst to host GIMA Charity Golf Day




This year’s GIMA Charity Golf Day will be hosted by leading UK golfer Paul Broadhurst, who will join players on the course and host the prize giving and auction in the evening...
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Stewart hint at new products for Glee
 
Stewart Garden is returning to Glee in 2015, it’s 70th Anniversary year.  Several new products are promised...
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