RockinColour has announced the launch of four new ranges which will consist of over 20 new colour coated stone, gravel and sand colour finishes...

Wow, wow and more wow..... Whoever would have believed that a compost bag could look quite so amazing, yet here in a tailor-made outfit, our
‘Pretty in Pink’ lady will be strutting her stuff at this years GLEE to promote recycling on behalf of UK supplier and compost manufacturer Durston Garden Products...

Unlike bank holidays earlier in the year, August Bank Holiday was a damp squib for garden centres, as measured by GTN Bestsellers volume sales figures...

Wyevale Garden Centres, the UK’s biggest garden centre operator, last week announced the sale of Brooks; Nailsworth; Aldridge; Keynsham and Shirley garden centres to individual buyers.  Nailsworth has been purchased by Blue Diamond and Brooks by Homeleigh Garden Centre...

Homebase's creditors voted in favour of a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA), with 95.92% of creditors backing the plan...

The AMES UK group of companies, which includes La Hacienda, Kelkay and Anchorfast, will be exhibiting as a group for the first time at next month’s Glee exhibition at the NEC. It’s been a very busy year for AMES UK Managing Director, Antony Harker, who has coordinated the acquisition and integration of their latest project to bring Anchorfast into the group.

Wyevale Nurseries is introducing recyclable plant pots for all its retail plants so that they can be recycled kerbside by consumers. It will be replacing its black plastic pots for taupe coloured pots, which will be supplied by Aeroplas in the West Midlands, to fight the war on plastic...

The Horticultural Trades Association has announced that Boyd Douglas-Davies, CEO of Hillview Garden Centres, is to join the HTA Board as Vice-President...

The expectations of visitors and retailers are already running high for Glee 2018. The first preview issue of Glee Daily News has been opened 78% more frequently than last year – and by 42% more readers. With a new layout across Halls 6, 7, 8, 19 and 20, the refreshed event has the potential to re-energise the industry as this year of extremes continues.

GTN’s Trevor Pfeiffer asked garden centre retailers and exhibitors about their hopes for Glee 2018...

Needlefresh, the real Christmas tree supplier, has announced a charity partnership with Greenfingers which will be launched at Glee in September...

City dwellers will be invited to experience the cutting-edge techniques of urban gardening at the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) Urban Garden Show (Westminster, 27-28 October)...

The past two weeks have seen a steady increase in growing media sales in the GTN Bestsellers charts as gardeners get going with their autumn gardening, especially preparations for bulb planting...

Four employees working at Haskins Garden Centre in Ferndown are training for the Bournemouth Half Marathon in aid of Autism Wessex...