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The Garden Centre Group adds more High Street talent
On the cusp of a good year, will it be a bumper Easter?
WIN a display of Resolva 24H
Founder's great grand-daughter opens latest Notcutts
Solus merger talks 'making good progress'
Neil Gow to help Glee develop new-look show
Barrus open state-of-the-art garden tool facility
Grafted veg storm sales chart
HPW design Euro-giant's first garden centre
Print your own bed cards with new web service
Ben's hot coals walk raises £1000 for charity
Prisoners refurbish tools from new garden centre re-cycling point
If catering and food are your growth areas our new Food Xtra will help you
It's time to enter the Greatest Awards 2014
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Paving brush pushes Tomorite off Bestsellers top spot
Easter looking good for garden centres say Barclaycard pundits
Mo Bacter a runaway success at Ayletts
A great week for multi-purpose composts
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The Garden Centre Group adds more High Street talent
The Garden Centre Group has announced a clutch of appointments designed to give the 140-centre chain a further injection of high street expertise...
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On the cusp of a good year, will it be a bumper Easter?
Will the Easter Bunny push the green line up so we see sales volumes in April at the same or higher levels than 2012 – or will the heat drop out of the market...?

  
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WIN a display of Resolva 24H

Above: Pacific Garden Centre at Streetly sent us this entry...

If you want to be in with a chance of winning an entire display of Resolva 24H, simply snap a picture of yourself or your centre wearing the Resolva facemask you found inside the April issue of Garden Trade News...
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Founder's great grand-daughter opens latest Notcutts









The new Notcutts Tunbridge Wells garden centre at Pembury was officially opened last week by Caroline Notcutt, the founder’s great grand-daughter...
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Solus merger talks 'making good progress'
 
Solus Garden & Leisure say they are “making good progress” in talks with potential new business partners following the collapse of merger negotiations with Scotts UK...
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Neil Gow to help Glee develop new-look show








Former GIMA director Neil Gow has joined the Glee team as a consultant.
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Barrus open state-of-the-art garden tool facility
Barrus have officially opened their new garden tools distribution centre at Bicester...



Above: Gabriella Hart and Olivia Newall cut the ribbon at Barrus 's new centre.
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Grafted veg storm sales chart





The arrival of Suttons’ grafted veg plants last week loosened Quantil’s grip on the Veg2Gro chart in the GTN Bestsellers data...
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HPW design Euro-giant's first garden centre
UK retail design experts HPW Architecture have created a leading European nursery’s first garden centre...
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Print your own bed cards with new web service
Garden centres and nurseries can now print their own bed cards using a web-based bed card service run by Joy of Plants...
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Ben's hot coals walk raises £1000 for charity




Ben Roden (left) of Mr Fothergill's has raised more than £1000 for the Multiple Sclerosis Society by walking over burning coals...
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Prisoners refurbish tools from new garden centre re-cycling point







Gardeners in East Lothian are being invited to bring old or unwanted tools to a new re-cycling point at Dunbar Garden Centre...
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It's time to enter the Greatest Awards 2014


It's time to enter your teams into the 2014 Greatest Awards – and we have some different and exciting new opportunities for you this year...
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