In a year that has seen Primeur’s penetration of UK garden centres increase exponentially, the company has been busy working behind the scenes to develop its instore merchandising displays for the award-winning Eco Garden range...

Andrew Bracey, the chairman of Dobbies, said in The Times on Saturday: the stock market is the “natural place” for the business and it will look to float “in a year or so”.  Graeme Jenkins explains the plan...

Dobbies Garden Centre Group Limited yesterday (30th November 2019) filed the Annual Report and Financial Statements for The Group and its subsidiaries for the 12 months to 24 February 2019.  These show sales increased 12% on prior year to £166m and are now at £300m following the purchase of a further 31 centres during the rest of 2019...

Ahead of the 12 December general election, the HTA has set out a manifesto outlining the key policy themes and ‘asks’ that are fundamental to developing a strong and vibrant horticulture sector...

After the devasting fire at our garden centre back in April 2018, Klondyke Strikes have announced that their brand new Strikes Garden Centre and Restaurant at Stokesley is now open...

RHS Garden Wisley is celebrating significant rises in retail sales since the opening of its new Welcome building in June this year, with total sales up 24%. This is significantly higher than the rest of the gardening retail industry, which is down 1.7% on comparable categories for the same period, and also bucks the trend against the high street generally, where in-store sales from June to October are 0.64% less than last year.

Customers are voting for Christmas at garden centres across the country as volume sales continue to rise above all previous years...

The Castle Gardens group, famous for its award-winning Christmas displays, has earned another gong – with Yeovil-based Brimsmore Gardens placed third in this year’s GCA national Christmas awards (sponsored by Gisela Graham)…even though it has removed the glitter…

Administrators appointed 10 days ago at National Polytunnels, one of the best-known suppliers to garden centres in its category, were marketing the company’s business assets for sale through agent Simon Creber of GTC last week...

Phil Stevenson of Wantage-based family-run Charlton Park Garden Centre enjoyed a free holiday in Barbados…courtesy of his garden furniture supplier...

Hillier is working on an environmental impact audit to evaluate how it can reduce the business’s carbon footprint, director Chris Francis announced at the annual Hillier Garden Centre Awards...

Left: Hillier's Employee of the Year, Joshna Desai, receives her award from TV gardener Joe Swift.

Brother and sister Tom and Jenny Ripley are to take over Greenways garden centre in Bethersden, Kent, in January - the first time the centre has changed hands in almost 20 years...

Above: Bradley, Tom and Andrew Ripley in The Garden Restaurant at what will become Ripleys Garden Centre in January.

The sale of one of Vitax’s leading gardening products has helped to grow the funds of a national charity by over £11,000...

A new book tackles the thorny issue of use of plastics in gardens – the first ever guide showing gardeners a way to cut back on un-recyclable materials...

Wyevale Nurseries expanded its sales support team and taken on two new administrators. It promoted Paulina Sawicka from its propagation department to the team and appointed Helen Hoskins. Both are now Sales Support Administrators...

Whartons Roses welcomes Jo Davey to the new role of marketing manager. She joins Norfolk-based rose grower Whartons with over 25 years of horticultural experience in marketing and sales...

A stand of 20 elm trees was planted at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire last week, the first official planting as part of Hillier Trees’ campaign; ‘re-elming the British countryside’...