In This Issue
Love the plants we've got at The HTA National Plant Show
Perfect plant retailing rewarded at The HTA National Plant Show
Will you be one of The Greatest Plant Retailing Teams announced tomorrow, Tuesday June 23rd?
The Greatest Outdoor Living Sales gold winners to be presented at spoga+gafa
GTN Bestsellers date predicts June sales boost
Lighting product sales still shining brightly
Glee’s Green Heart grows in 2015
HTA Futures is the venue for The Greatest Garden Centre Team Awards 2015
Plant Area Manager - Destination Garden Centre - Large Group
Horticulture Manager - Essex - Established Centre
Landscape Project Manager - East of England
Contracts Manager - Soft Landscape Construction - South
Tomato plants are biggest veg sales movers
Farmyard manure is a top seller
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
Catering Tip of the Week: Braille Menu
Window of opportunity for bird care sales
Situations Vacant
Plant Area Manager - Destination Garden Centre - Large Group
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Horticulture Manager - Essex - Established Centre
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Landscape Project Manager - East of England
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Contracts Manager - Soft Landscape Construction - South
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Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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Love the plants we've got at The HTA National Plant Show


The HTA National Plant Show opens tomorrow morning (Tuesday 23rd June) at Stoneleigh near Coventry in the Midlands.  As the exhibitors completed build-up on Monday evening GTN Xtra took a whistle stop tour of the stands to give you a flavour of the show...
See GTN Xtra's picture gallery of all the exhibitors
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Perfect plant retailing rewarded at The HTA National Plant Show
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Worlds End and Cleeve Nursery have been The Greatest Planteria Sales Team winners in previous years. For 2015 we have more planteria sales categories. Will your teams be one of The Greatest announced on Tuesday at 3:30pm at The HTA National Plant Show?
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Will you be one of The Greatest Plant Retailing Teams announced tomorrow, Tuesday June 23rd?
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The Greatest Plant Retailing Awards are amongst the highlights on Tuesday 23rd June at The National Plant Show...
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The Greatest Outdoor Living Sales gold winners to be presented at spoga+gafa
 
Five gold winners of The Greatest Outdoor Living Sales Awards will have the added prize of receiving their prizes at this year's spoga+gafa exhibition in Cologne, Germany. One person from each of the five winners will be treated to travel to and from Cologne plus one night's accommodation as The Greatest Awards really celebrate going on tour this year.
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GTN Bestsellers date predicts June sales boost


Halfway through June and volume sales continue to run up on last year – 13% up to date according to EPoS data supplied by garden centres for GTN Bestsellers. Last week’s sales even surpassed volumes in the same week of 2013 when we had the previous record June sales after that really dismal April and May of that year.
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Lighting product sales still shining brightly
 
The GTN Bestsellers Garden Products Top 50 chart is still being dominated by lighting lines although plant food for both outdoor and indoor use is showing up prominently in this week’s sales data...
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Glee’s Green Heart grows in 2015


Introduced in 2014 to help bring plants back to the centre of Glee, the Green Heart brought together some of the biggest and most respected UK growers to showcase 2015 plant ranges. Incredibly well received the area has undergone some exciting changes ahead of the 2015 show...
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
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Catering Tip of the Week: Braille Menu
There are almost two million in people in the UK who are suffering sight loss. Or to put it another way, there are almost two million potential garden centre customers who are suffering sight loss. Are those two million people welcome in your café? asks Garden Centre and Catering Consultant Doug Stewart...
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Window of opportunity for bird care sales
Chris Brown, of Turpin Smale, highlighted bird watching as an area of interest for cafés and restuarants to focus on for attracting customers in his presentation at the HTA Catering Conference...
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HTA Futures is the venue for The Greatest Garden Centre Team Awards 2015
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Poplars, Groves and Barton Grange have all won Gold in The Greatest Awards.  Which garden centres will be leaving the HTA Futures Conference with Gold this year?
Nominate your Garden Centre Teams here
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