In This Issue
Barton Grange and The Old Railway Line are the big winners in GCA Annual Awards and Cowells and Barton Grange win the Ruxley Rose Awards
Cherry Lane acquires Retford & Gainsborough Garden Centre
Bosworths plan for move to new site
Notcutts celebrates 125th anniversary at new-look Woodbridge
British Garden Centres buy Timmermans to make it 59
February starts with big wins for garden centres
GTN’s Greatest Christmas Award winners revealed
Hozelock Pure Range expands with innovative Tumbling Composter
Leon Boots are amazingly different
Peter Seabrook funeral arrangements
GCA announces new Chairman and Chairman Elect
Horticulture industry launches nationwide projects to grow customer knowledge on peat-free gardening
Massive leap in plant sales
Garden centres saw green shoots of recovery in 2021
Azpects Launch NEW EASYJoint Select Range
Last chance to join GIMA’s forthcoming Day Conference
Spring Fair closes on a high
BBC Gardeners’ World Autumn Fair to launch in September
Casual Dining announces new partnerships
A green start of 2022 with GROEN-Direkt’s Spring Showroom
Green Retail Events to organise new Plantarium|GROEN-Direkt fair
That was the year that was... 2021
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Pot feet move to the top
More records broken
Seeds of growth
RHS and Harrogate Tipple partner to produce a range of artisan spirits
British horticulture industry agrees with Public Accounts Committee Brexit trade burdens report – more costs and burdens to follow they fear
Char-Broil strengthens UK sales team
AIPH to reunite at 2022 Spring Meeting in Dubai
The best of last week's
Retailers flock in their thousands to Spring Fair
Hansa Creation retail launch by Hamac Trading at Spring Fair
Get ready for Garden Re-Leaf Day 2022
Bid to continue Peter Seabrook's legacy
Plastic Free Gardening range now available at Wildlife World
Heaven Sends launch New Christmas 2022 range at their new Showrooms
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Barton Grange and The Old Railway Line are the big winners in GCA Annual Awards and Cowells and Barton Grange win the Ruxley Rose Awards

Barton Grange have been announced as the winners of the Destination Garden Centre of the Year Award and The Old Railway Line as winners of The Garden Centre of the Year during the GCA's virtual presentation day, today, Tuesday 15th February.

 

This afternoon GCA Inspector Aylson Haywood announced Cowells and Barton Grange as winners of the Ruxley Rose awards for plant areas...

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Cherry Lane acquires Retford & Gainsborough Garden Centre

Value garden centre group, Cherry Lane, has acquired Retford & Gainsborough Garden Centre in Nottinghamshire to take the group to 16 centres...

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Bosworths plan for move to new site

Local newspapers are reporting that Bosworths Garden Centre in Burton Latimer have submitted planing applications to move to a new site on the A6 at Irthlingborough...

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Notcutts celebrates 125th anniversary at new-look Woodbridge

Notcutts has launched a year of celebrations to mark 125 years of glorious gardening with a special event hosted at their new-look Notcutts Woodbridge Garden Centre in Suffolk..

 

Caroline Notcutt (centre) cuts the ribbon to the new entrance at Notcutts Woodbridge Garden Centre with (far right) Cllr Sue Bale, Mayor of Woodbridge, alongside the Notcutts board, Notcutt family members, and (far left) Notcutts Woodbridge manager Darren Brooks.

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British Garden Centres buy Timmermans to make it 59

The team at British Garden Centres (BGC) have announced the arrival of the groups 59th garden centre. Timmermans Garden Centre of Nottingham, and team, joined the BGC family today, Monday 14th February 2022...

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February starts with big wins for garden centres
Exclusive GTN Bestsellers garden centre Epos data analysis

The total volume sales of garden centres supplying weekly data to GTN Bestsellers for the first week of February 2022 was more than double that of 2021 and 31% up on the same week in 2019...

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GTN’s Greatest Christmas Award winners revealed
Gold awards for Altons, Ayletts, Barton Grange, Bents, Brigg, Burford House, Gates, Kaemingk, Pengelly, Perrywood, Planters, Pughs, Sapcote, Silverbirch, Squires, The Old Railway Line & Webbs

Burford House (BGC), Brigg (BGC), Squire Badshot Lea, Silverbirch, The Old Railway Line and Bents have picked up Greatest Garden Centre Christmas Team golds in GTN’s Greatest Christmas Awards, presented at Spring Fair on Monday. Kaemingk walked away with The Greatest Christmas Supplier gold...

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Hozelock Pure Range expands with innovative Tumbling Composter
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The Hozelock Pure range, which includes the BioMix, Bokashi Composter and a range of sprayers, is expanding this year with the launch of the new EasyMix 2-in-1 Composter...

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Leon Boots are amazingly different
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Leon Boots Ultralight Ankle Boots are flourishing in garden centres throughout the UK.Award winners at BBC Gardeners World Live Show, the ankle boots are also winners with garden centre customers!

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Peter Seabrook funeral arrangements

Peter Seabrook’s funeral will be held in Chelmsford on 24 February 2022...

 

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GCA announces new Chairman and Chairman Elect

The Garden Centre Association has announced its new Chairman for 2022/23 and Chairman Elect. Tammy Woodhouse was officially named as the GCA’s Chairman for 2022-23 with Will Blake becoming Chairman Elect, during its virtual AGM meeting, which took place on Thursday...

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Horticulture industry launches nationwide projects to grow customer knowledge on peat-free gardening
 

Helping millions of consumers to be part of efforts to end peat use in horticulture is at the centre of two new schemes being launched this month. This is part of a series of actions planned by the horticulture industry’s Growing Media Taskforce to help remove peat by 2025-2028 in retail and 2028-2030 in plant and tree production.  

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Massive leap in plant sales

Plants saw a massive leap in sales as the sun shone at the start of February. Sales in the GTN Bestsellers Epos data grew by 16% week on week and were more than double of the same week in 2019...

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Garden centres saw green shoots of recovery in 2021
 

The Garden Centre Association says garden centres were rallying and recovering from the pandemic in 2021 according to its overall Barometer of Trade (BoT) figures for the year released this month...

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Azpects Launch NEW EASYJoint Select Range

Azpects are pleased to announce the launch of EASYJoint Select, specially Selected for you this valentine’s day. Available from the 14th of February 2022...

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Last chance to join GIMA’s forthcoming Day Conference
 

Taking place next week (February 17th, Wyboston Lakes, Bedfordshire), GIMA’s first Day Conference of 2022, focused on the forthcoming changes to the Extended Producer Responsibility Regulations (EPR), has just a few places remaining...

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Spring Fair closes on a high

Spring Fair, the UK’s largest and longest running trade show for home, gift and fashion, has generated millions of pounds worth of business kick-starting and refuelling the retail industry...

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BBC Gardeners’ World Autumn Fair to launch in September

Immediate Live, organisers of the 30-year strong BBC Gardeners’ World Live and the BBC Gardeners’ World Spring Fair, has announced details of the new BBC Gardeners’ World Autumn Fair at Audley End House and Gardens..

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Casual Dining announces new partnerships

Casual Dining has announced two exciting new partnerships with leading pub and bar associations BBPA (The British Beer & Pub Association) and BII (British Institute of Innkeeping)...

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A green start of 2022 with GROEN-Direkt’s Spring Showroom

GROEN-Direkt’s Spring Showroom took place on 1-2 February. The fair attracted more than 1,200 visitors, the sample batches looked very attractive and sales went well.

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Green Retail Events to organise new Plantarium|GROEN-Direkt fair

Last week saw the birth of the new Green Retail Events fair organisation. The signing of the shareholders’ agreement between the Stichting Vakbeurs voor de Boomkwekerij (SVB; Nursery Trade Fair Foundation) and GROEN-Direkt Boskoop B.V. marked the official start of the cooperation...

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That was the year that was... 2021

 

Happy New Year to you all.  We hope you all had a good and safe festive period and are now looking forward to an exciting 2022.

 

Since New Year the GTN gnomes have been beavering away to compile the Top 100 stories read in GTN Xtra last year as our review of 2021.

 

During 2021 we published in excess of 2,500 stories in GTN Xtra which was opened 390,397 times by 34,334 unique readers who viewed 856,595 pages.  Added to that are the pages of GTN magazines published through the year which have been read on line almost 33,000 times (you can catch up with any you may have missed using the links on the bottom right hand side of this GTN Xtra edition) as well as the many thousands of readers of the printed copies.

 

We've thoroughly enjoyed bringing you all the news, views and ideas during 2021 and we hope you found them useful and informative.  Here's to an even greater 2022!

Top 100 most read stories in GTN Xtra during 2021...
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