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How are suppliers faring during lockdown - Westland, Smart, Evergreen Garden Care and others are getting ready for re-opening of garden centres
Behind the scenes at Baytree Click & Collect
Garden Leisure suppliers living in an on-line world but anticipating garden centres re-opening
Greenfingers Charity’s #floralfriday continues to bring a little floral cheer to the nation
Analogue survival for garden centres in a digital world
Dobbies launches Little Seedlings at home
Use of Black Plastic in UK Packaging Continues to Drop
Gardenex recruits exhibitors for spoga+gafa as Government confirms grants of £1,500 for eligible SMEs
Woodlodge’s Richard Newton raises a staggering £7686 for Greenfingers Charity
GIMA urging retailers to keep cash flow active during lockdown
Thank you for reading GTNXtra in such high numbers
Clipglove comes out top in Good Housekeeping glove test!
Grow some sunshine with Gardena and Lynne Lambourne
Zest direct to relaunch “garden product home delivery service” to support online retailers
How LifestyleGarden® can help to beat isolation blues in the garden this summer while playing a role in preserving the planet
EGO announces powerful new line-up for 2020
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Garden product supplier provides plastic for NHS visors
Recoup include film recyclability guidance in plastic packaging design publication
Hillier Trees prepare for a positive post covid-19 future
Garden Radio charges on hold
The best of last week's
After the quietest Easter ever, how are you and your team?
"I just don't get how gardening is deemed non-essential then certain supermarkets put big banners with get ready for spring," more post Easter feedback
GrowNation could be a good answer to organisation challenges of garden centre delivery systems
Derek Spicer, Kilworth Conifers dies
John Grayson joins Hozelock
GTN Xtra - Send to all
Garden Centre Photo Tours
Haskins Snowhill re-opens after £15m re-vamp
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How are suppliers faring during lockdown - Westland, Smart, Evergreen Garden Care and others are getting ready for re-opening of garden centres

Last week we asked garden centres how they and their teams were after the quietest Easter ever and as the story has been so well read we thought this week we should ask suppliers how they are faring with the crisis...

 

“Garden centres will have plenty of opportunities when they get to re-open. There will still be 25 million households trapped at home and many of them will be starting a brand-new relationship with their garden..."

“The landscape is moving quickly, and demand is remarkably strong. Independent garden centres have been super creative and entrepreneurial. I think the season will be longer than usual..."

“After 6 month's of wet, gloomy weather, the clocks going forward, an ideal date for Easter, everyone is 'up for gardening' . . . then this happens!"

“The next few months are going to be critical for our industry. Retailers and their suppliers are totally inter-dependent and the only way of getting through this will be by working together for the common good..."

Read comments from Simon McArdle, Mark Portman, Steve Harper, Andy Chalmers, Paris Natar, Nick Davies, James Hoad, David Nicholson, Tim Jeffries, Guy Jenkins, Millie Ferns, Jenny Douthwaite, Jackie Eades, Mark Pitman and Stephen Illingworth
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Behind the scenes at Baytree Click & Collect

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The benefits of a large family mean that while almost all of the staff are on furlough leave, family members are working all hours to keep their 3 delivery vehicles and a steady stream of click and collect customers supplied...

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Garden Leisure suppliers living in an on-line world but anticipating garden centres re-opening

How are Garden Leisure suppliers faring during lockdown?  Here's feedback from suppliers who are adjusting to an on-line supply chain while anticipating the re-opening of garden centres...

 

“We urge everyone to stay strong, stay safe and keep well, there will be plenty of time for trading...”

“Strategies are changing daily and we are hoping we are reacting and adapting quickly enough in a positive way...”

"It's safe to say that at the end of lockdown that the UK will be full of beautifully designed garden spaces based on the demand for product that our garden centre customers are reporting.."

Read comments from John Athwal OBE, Debbie Waudby, Mark Osbourne, Joe Shrimpton, Nigel Lawrence, Paul Cohen & Christo Mckinnon-Wood.
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Greenfingers Charity’s #floralfriday continues to bring a little floral cheer to the nation

The third #floralfriday (Friday 17th April 2020) saw floral creations galore as garden lovers, young and old, once again donned their favourite floral attire or shared floral pictures across social media...

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Analogue survival for garden centres in a digital world

Garden centres are deploying extraordinary tactical agility with a generous dollop of staff loyalty and a large helping of true grit in order to survive writes industry consultant Jane Lawler...

 

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Dobbies launches Little Seedlings at home

Dobbies Garden Centres are encouraging children to get green fingered this season, and has launched its popular Little Seedlings Club online...

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Use of Black Plastic in UK Packaging Continues to Drop

RECOUP’s Black Plastic working group estimates that black packaging used in the UK has dropped from around 36,000 tonnes to 10,000 tonnes going into 2020...

 

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Gardenex recruits exhibitors for spoga+gafa as Government confirms grants of £1,500 for eligible SMEs

As preparations for spoga+gafa continue ahead of its planned date of 6-8 September 2020 in Cologne, Germany, the Gardenex export association has been successfully recruiting UK exhibitors for the event...

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Woodlodge’s Richard Newton raises a staggering £7686 for Greenfingers Charity

 

When Ambassador, Richard Newton, ‘drove-in’ as Men’s Captain of Erewash Golf Club, he nominated Greenfingers charity to benefit during his reign as Captain. Along with Lady Captain Judith Evans, they and club members raised a staggering £7686 for Greenfingers Charity...

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GIMA urging retailers to keep cash flow active during lockdown
 

GIMA Director, Vicky Nuttall, said: “The continued closure of garden retailers understandably leads to a need to control expenditure, however, halting the flow of cash through the supply chain is not the answer. There is no question that for some suppliers, lack of payment could lead to their untimely demise..."

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Thank you for reading GTNXtra in such high numbers

Thank you from the team at GTNXtra for all the reading and sharing of our e-mail newsletter during this crisis period.  Our stories about Easter feedback from garden centres have beaten all records in terms of number of individual story clicks and the amount of time spent reading GTNXtra which has jumped by over 65%.  Thank you.

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Clipglove comes out top in Good Housekeeping glove test!
 

Treadstone’s ClipGlove range has proved to be a hit with the team at Good Housekeeping magazine.  In their recent test, ClipGlove came top in 4 out of the 6 categories tested...

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Grow some sunshine with Gardena and Lynne Lambourne

GARDENA has teamed up with sustainability influencer, Lynne Lambourne, to launch a social media sunflower growing competition for families to enter this spring...

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Zest direct to relaunch “garden product home delivery service” to support online retailers
 

Timber product supplier Zest 4 Leisure is relaunching its Zest Direct home delivery service to online retailer customers with the aim of ensuring its customers are able to supply garden products and meet the increased demand in the lockdown period...

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How LifestyleGarden® can help to beat isolation blues in the garden this summer while playing a role in preserving the planet

With households enjoying an enforced “staycation” this summer, millions of people will be turning to their gardens to escape cabin fever and boost their health and wellbeing...

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EGO announces powerful new line-up for 2020

 

Cordless specialists in outdoor power equipment, EGO is expanding its range and its offer to make it even more relevant to both domestic and commercial users...

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