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The acquisition trail leads to...Scotland?
New Brochure...New Look Meadow View Stone
Oh dear – April was as bad as 2013 – official!
Cultivation Street to treble readership as Domoney switches to Sunday Mirror
Briers drives its North American expansion plans
Royal seal of approval for graduate entrepreneur who invented SeedCell
Thieves steal 8ft stag hedge from Notcutts garden centre
Briers' Gluvies photobooth boost for Greenfingers
Garden centre's green belt row to end up in court
#WorldNakedGardeningDay gets all fresh@burcot garden centre
Wyevale Garden Centres win gold for Malvern show garden
Hanging basket habits revealed by Thompson & Morgan
Squire's donate '80-year favourites' to Farnham park
Peter Williamson Travel Award for Pershore student
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Briers' gloves have the golden touch
Grafted plants are stars of Veg-2-Gro sales
Farmyard manure is a bestseller
Bents hand over £26k to cystic fibrosis charity
Juliana Oasis captures the imagination
BHETA recruits three more garden market suppliers
Lantra announces new trustee appointments
Landscape Trailblazer Apprenticeship Standards
Stunning iris and peony collections from Hawkesmill
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Matthew Algie returns to the Caffè Culture Show at Olympia
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The acquisition trail leads to...Scotland?



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New Brochure...New Look Meadow View Stone
 
With the intent to make products more accessible to stockists, Meadow View Stone have combined their three distinct product collections of aggregates, stoneware and paving all together in one concise but extensive catalogue. Furthermore, this entire product collection is distributed from their central depot, giving stockists complete flexibility to mix and match this comprehensive collection of products to meet order parameters...
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Oh dear – April was as bad as 2013 – official!


April was as bad as 2013 in the end and that is official! The GTN Bestsellers All Product Index for April came in at 15% down on April 2015 and just on a par with April 2013, which was previously one of the worst Aprils for a long time...
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Cultivation Street to treble readership as Domoney switches to Sunday Mirror

David Domoney’s Cultivation Street community gardening campaign is set to treble its readership following the switch of his week-end newspaper column from the Sunday People to the Sunday Mirror...
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Briers drives its North American expansion plans


The Briers team presented the new Briers International Collection at this year's National Hardware Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Nevada...
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Royal seal of approval for graduate entrepreneur who invented SeedCell






Dan Robson, founder of Green Digit Gardening and inventor of the innovative seed SeedCell germination system, has won The Duke of York Young Entrepreneur Award...


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Thieves steal 8ft stag hedge from Notcutts garden centre
 
A large privet hedge cut in the shape of a stag was dug up and stolen by thieves from  Notcutts garden centre, Nuneham Courtenay, near Oxford, this week...
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Briers' Gluvies photobooth boost for Greenfingers


Greenfingers received a welcome boost from the Briers Gluvies photobooth at the GCA conference earlier this year. As well as recognising the great work done by everyone concerned in organising this worthwhile event, GTN Xtra felt it would be a good idea to brighten up the week with a galary of never-seen-before pictures from the Briers Gluvies photobooth...
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Garden centre's green belt row to end up in court
The row over an enforcement notice served on the owners of Hare Hatch Sheeplands garden centre near Reading is to end up in court, following the local council’s rejection of a petition signed by thousands...
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#WorldNakedGardeningDay gets all fresh@burcot garden centre
  

While gardeners were posing naked at RHS Malvern Flower Show for World Naked Gardening Day Neil and Nicci Gow from Fresh@Burcot led the way with garden centres joining in...
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Matthew Algie returns to the Caffè Culture Show at Olympia



Coffee roaster Matthew Algie will be at next week's Caffè Culture Show, the UK’s major gathering for the café and coffee community...
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Best ever Natural & Organic Products Europe
Natural & Organic Products Europe welcomed a record 10,226 total attendees from 86 countries through its doors last month on 17-18 April at London ExCeL...
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Wyevale Garden Centres win gold for Malvern show garden
Wyevale Garden Centres, in partnership with Historic Royal Palaces, were awarded Gold at the RHS Malvern Spring Festival this week for their show garden ‘Gardening Amidst Ruins: a homage to Capability Brown’...

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Hanging basket habits revealed by Thompson & Morgan


Thompson & Morgan has surveyed the nation’s gardeners to see how they use them to best effect in their garden, with some interesting findings...
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Squire's donate '80-year favourites' to Farnham park

Squire’s Garden Centres have donated plants from their ‘80th Celebration Collection’, a range of their favourite plants over the past 80 years, to make a flowerbed in Gostrey Meadow Park in Farnham...


Left: Kevin Taitt and Councillor Stephen Hill of Farnham Town Council help Squire's deputy chairman Sarah Squire to plant up the bed.
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Peter Williamson Travel Award for Pershore student


Nicholas Russell from Pershore College has been presented with Wyevale Nurseries’ Peter Williamson Travel Award...
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