In This Issue
Planters buy Pacific
GIMA Buyers Guide & New Product Digest Autumn 2024 - A valuable source of reference for the UK Garden Trade
Christmas Greatness – Last chance to nominate your teams for GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards 2024
The new Ascot and Newbury pergolas provide perfect fit with Zest's outdoor entertaining collection
Dutch firm acquires UK-based Tandee Nursery
PATS acquired by leading global events company
Garden industry responds to Autumn Budget
Sue Allen steps down as Greenfingers chair as Boyd Douglas-Davies takes the helm
Huge fire breaks out at Old Well Garden Centre
Catering sizzles & Christmas sparkles in September BoT
Westland-sponsored GCA Rising Stars finalists revealed
HTA highlights garden centre thefts to Police and Crime Commissioners for urgent action
British Garden Centres raises £30,000 for Greenfingers
Kate smashes through 300 days in Greenfingers run
GCA Conference 2025 – Book Your Place Today
Spring Fair's 75th anniversary edition almost sold
Adventure play attraction reaches tourism award final
YPHA’s Launch Success Challenge reaches significant stage
Grow skills with financial support for horticultural studies
Get your copy of GTN Xtra
BHETA to host Meet the Buyer event with Dobbies
Red hot chilli display heats up Eden Project Mediterranean Biome
Secure your tickets for AIPH International Grower of the Year Awards
The best of last week's
Manufacturers unite to champion the future of professional growing media in the UK
Christmas hope for Dobbies staff in “to be closed” centres
Choice Marketing’s 22nd Conference and Trade Show breaks records
Fordingbridge delivers stunning new entrance for Groves Nurseries
Staverton Nursery opens new restaurant and food hall
Putting the heart into The Big Cheese
Glee: 50 years of influence, read GTN's Glee Review Issue on-line here
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Planters buy Pacific

Fifteen months after buying Brookfields in Nottingham, Planters have now added a further centre to the business buying Pacific Nurseries in the West Midlands...

Read more and see a GTN Xtra photo tour of Pacific Nurseries from June 2023
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GIMA Buyers Guide & New Product Digest Autumn 2024 - A valuable source of reference for the UK Garden Trade

New Products for the UK Garden Trade for 2025 from GIMA Members: Ames, Auto Pot Global, Avocet Hardware – Greenman Tools, Azpects, Bulldog Tools, Burgon & Ball, Capi Europe, Coir Products, Durston Garden Products, elho, Evergreen Garden Care, Fandango Fire Tools, Fargro, Forest Garden, Gardena, Glee, Greenkey, Greenleaf Horticulture, Handy Distribution, Harvest Pet Products, Hortiwool    , Hozelock, Johnsons Lawn Seeds, Kleen-Tex, LBC Ultralight Boots, Marriages, Meadow View Stone, Museums & Galleries, Panacea Products, Phoenox, PlantWorks, POTR, Primeur, Primus, Sipcam, Smart Garden Products, Sorbus, The Solar Centre, Tildenet, Treadstone, Vitavia, Vitax, Witt UK & Ireland, Woodmansterne, Zest Outdoor Living, GIMA Member Directory, Join GIMA.

Read the New GIMA Buyers Guide on-line here
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Christmas Greatness – Last chance to nominate your teams for GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards 2024

Will your teams be among the winners, and will your customers vote you to be The Greatest Garden Centre Team of 2024?

 

Today is the last chance to nominate your teams....

 

Enter GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards 2024 here
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The new Ascot and Newbury pergolas provide perfect fit with Zest's outdoor entertaining collection
GTN Xtra Promotion

Timber garden product specialist Zest’s new Ascot and Newbury Pergolas are proving a winner alongside its ‘at one with nature’ outdoor cooking and entertaining collection...

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Dutch firm acquires UK-based Tandee Nursery

Van den Berk Nurseries from Sint-Oedenrode, the Netherlands, has announced it will be acquiring Tandee Nursery, based near Peterborough. The acquisition will provide a strong foundation for growth and will allow Van den Berk to meet the needs of customers in the UK private market...

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PATS acquired by leading global events company

PATS – the Pets and Aquatic Trade Show – has been bought by leading global events company  Raccoon Media Group...

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Garden industry responds to Autumn Budget

Leading figures and associations have been responding the Autumn Budget. Find out what they had to say…

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Sue Allen steps down as Greenfingers chair as Boyd Douglas-Davies takes the helm
 

Sue Allen, who has been the driving force behind Greenfingers Charity during her tenure as Chairman, has stepped down from the role. Sue, however, will continue to serve the charity as a dedicated Trustee for another year. Taking up the reins as the new Chairman is Boyd Douglas-Davies...

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Huge fire breaks out at Old Well Garden Centre

Firefighters were called to The Old Well Garden Centre, Uffculme, near Cullompton, in the early hours of Friday after a huge fire broke out in a large warehouse...

Picture credit: Devon Live

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Catering sizzles & Christmas sparkles in September BoT
 

Catering served up the best results for September, according to Garden Centre Association’s latest Barometer of Trade (BoT) figures out this week. GCA Chairman Will Blake says: “It’s great to see that overall, our members achieved growth for the month.."

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Westland-sponsored GCA Rising Stars finalists revealed

Four individuals from Garden Centre Association member garden centres have been announced as finalists in the industry body’s Rising Stars programme sponsored by Westland Horticulture...

This year’s Rising Stars programme attendees including the four selected finalists.

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HTA highlights garden centre thefts to Police and Crime Commissioners for urgent action
 

The Horticultural Trades Association continues to drive its campaign against retail crime within the garden centre sector, engaging with both the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for West Sussex, Katy Bourne and the Thames Valley PCC Matthew Barber...

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British Garden Centres raises £30,000 for Greenfingers

British Garden Centres has again demonstrated its unwavering commitment to giving back to the charity, presenting Greenfingers with a cheque for £30,000. This impressive sum was raised through a year of fundraising efforts across the company's 65 stores across the UK...

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Kate smashes through 300 days in Greenfingers run

Kate Ebbens has smashed through 300 days and run over 1,300km in her mammoth 366 Daily Run for Greenfingers.

Click here to read Kate’s November update
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GCA Conference 2025 – Book Your Place Today

Booking is now open for the GCA annual conference, which takes place at De Vere Wokefield Estate, Reading from Sunday, 26th until Wednesday, 29th January 2025...

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Glee: 50 years of influence, read GTN's Glee Review Issue on-line here

GTN October 2024. In this Glee Review Issue:

 

  • RocketGro – Towards Climate Positive
  • Open for business in Shetland - GTN visits the new centre in Lerwick
  • It’s Christmas – Entry details for GTN’s Greatest Christmas Awards 2024
  • Glee 2024 – The Buzz is back
  • Making an impact at Glee
  • Potr - GIMA Seed Corn Fund Winner
  • Glee Hero’s – Influencing the past 50 Years
  • Glee New Product Award Winners
  • Floral Thursday at Glee sets new records
  • Hold on tight – Wing walkers for Greenfingers
  • GTN Planteria – Seasonal picks for 2025 and beyond
  • Navigating change at the HTA Conference
  • HTA Viewpoint – Presidential reflections
Read the issue on-line here
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Spring Fair's 75th anniversary edition almost sold
Registration goes live

Registration is live for the UK’s leading Home, Gift, and Fashion trade show, Spring Fair, which is on track to sell out at its 75th anniversary edition...

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Adventure play attraction reaches tourism award final

Mission Out, based at Tingley Garden Centre, has reached the final of the Kids First award in the Yorkshire Post Tourism Awards...

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YPHA’s Launch Success Challenge reaches significant stage

A significant stage in the YPHA’s Launch Success Challenge was reached with completion of the product pitches. Kindly hosted by St Peters Garden Centre, Worcester, who provided the teams with use of their cosy yurt which made a fabulous venue...

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Grow skills with financial support for horticultural studies

Now is the time to give your learning a boost with scholarship support from the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation. Applications are open for more scholarships than we have ever offered before - and for more money...

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