In This Issue
Mr Fothergill's Seeds acquires Darlac Garden Tools
Garden centre catering buyers prepare for lunch! 2017
Woodstock Chimes – It’s All About the Sound
Evergreen Enterprises leads with quality, innovation and variety
GCA Ruxley Rose finalists revealed
Autumn kicks in already, says GTN Bestsellers
Industry mourns loss of well-loved character
Charity fund-raising: a way of life for our garden centres
Wyevale Nurseries ready crop of 'game-changer' Daphne
Squire’s donates plants to White Lodge Centre
Clematis on Plantarium judging list
Garden centre staff pull on walking boots for charity
Equip yourself for success after Brexit
Millbrook Garden Centre complete 60 Mile Charity Walk
Summerseat Gardeners Question Time is a winner for local hospice
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Heuchera are most popular plant of the week
Can you help centre's Think Pink event to raise cash for hospice?
Wonderwall leads way for garden product sales
Allensmore set for Christmas range launch
Charlotte tops the Christmas menu
Garden Futures Conference 2017 line up announced
Bark up as weeds need to be supressed
Briers expands sales team again
New business name for GTN
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Mr Fothergill's Seeds acquires Darlac Garden Tools

Mr Fothergill’s Seeds this week announced the acquisition of Darlac Ltd, the garden tools and equipment company based in Langley, Slough...
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Garden centre catering buyers prepare for lunch! 2017
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Visitor registration for lunch! 2017 is now well underway and thousands of buyers have already registered to attend their favourite industry event at its brand-new venue of ExCeL London on 21-22 September.
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Woodstock Chimes – It’s All About the Sound
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Woodstock Chimes founder and owner, Garry Kvistad, created the first windchime tuned to specific musical notes. In the 1970s he was fascinated by the scale of Olympos, a musical scale from the 7th century B.C., that couldn’t be played on modern instruments. Inspiration struck when he realised he could cut and tune aluminium tubes to the exact frequencies of that ancient scale, and just like that the first musically tuned windchime was born! Garry continues to be the talent behind the design and tuning of all Woodstock Chimes...

 

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Evergreen Enterprises leads with quality, innovation and variety
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As a leading worldwide supplier of Garden Décor, Evergreen Enterprises is quickly becoming known in the UK as an innovative and dynamic vendor, offering a wide variety of quality, on-trend products...
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GCA Ruxley Rose finalists revealed
The Garden Centre Association has announced the names of the finalist garden centres in its Ruxley Rose competition. The 20 centres all received top scores in the spring bedding and hardy nursery stock categories from the GCA’s spring inspections and have now been put through for autumn judging.



Cowell’s Garden Centre are a finalist in the Garden Centre category.
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Autumn kicks in already, says GTN Bestsellers


Autumn gardening has already kicked in according to garden centre sales data analysed by GTN...
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Industry mourns loss of well-loved character


The garden centre industry is mourning the sad loss of Stephen Pickering, who worked for Wyevale Garden Centre (Poppleton, York) from 1994 until his
retirement in 2012, receiving an RHS long service medal for 47 years service in 2009. Known as Steve from Challis', he had battled cancer for a number of years...
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Charity fund-raising: a way of life for our garden centres
Amazing fund-raising activities and acts of charitable giving this year have once again highlighted the garden centre industry's enthusiasm for  supporting good causes...



Above: Linda Petrons and John Ashley from Greenfingers (left) with Dean Ridley, Simon Hallam and members of the Haskins' team at Ferndown.
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Wyevale Nurseries ready crop of 'game-changer' Daphne





Wyevale Nurseries is preparing its second commercial crop of a shrub described by product development manager Ben Gregory as “a game changer”...

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Squire’s donates plants to White Lodge Centre


Squire’s Garden Centre in Chertsey has donated over £200 worth of bedding plants, hanging baskets, herbs, seeds and compost to their charity of the year White Lodge Centre, which supports disabled people of all ages in Surrey.
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Clematis on Plantarium judging list
The latest batch of award-nominated novelties at Plantarium 2017 (Boskoop, Holland, 23-26 August) includes Clematis viticella ‘Pernille’.

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Garden centre staff pull on walking boots for charity


Employees from Tong Garden Centre are getting ready for an 18 kilometre walk to raise funds for their chosen charity of the year...
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Equip yourself for success after Brexit


The CHA’s cross-industry international conference GrowQuip will be providing some of the answers for growers across the sectors - whether they grow fruit, vegetables, salads or ornamentals...
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Millbrook Garden Centre complete 60 Mile Charity Walk


Congratulations to the Millbrook Garden Company staff members who managed to walk between all three of their Garden Centres, from Millbrook Gravesend in Kent, to Millbrook Crowborough in East Sussex via their Staplehurst, Kent, centre last weekend so far raising £4,821...
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Summerseat Gardeners Question Time is a winner for local hospice


Summerseat Garden Centre in Bury raised over £1000 for their local hospice with a Gardeners Question Time event last Tuesday...
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