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Homebase St Albans to be UK Bunnings Warehouse pilot
October breaks sales records in garden centres
Wyevale Garden Centres forced to close Folkestone store
Garden centre bid to increase car park in green belt land
Invasive Brazilian flatworm arrives in UK garden centre on an imported heuchera
Maximising your potential - masses of marketing input in only one day - Tuesday November 8th
Who will be the winners of GTN's first Greatest Marketing Team Awards?
Plant trees....for the sake of the iPad generation
Top UK nurseries to trial plant health management system
Squire's Freaky Friday face painting raises £304 for charity
Why Britain's just blooming great!
Promote Cornus for winter colour
Meet a great grower...of facial hair
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Brand Manager
Sales representative, South East
Horticultural / Plantarea Manager (Carmarthenshire)
Horticultural / Plantarea Manager (West Midlands)
Technical Growing Operations Nursery Manager (UK based)
Garden Sundries Retail Manager (Essex)
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Continued business growth prompts internal promotions and new recruits at Kelkay
Garden lighting products sell well during half-term
Christmas product sales are getting personal
Growing media sales continue to impress
Cyclamen is the bestselling plant during school break
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The latest New Plant Varieties for Summer Colour
Demystify the millennial generation at free workshops
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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GTN's Greatest Awards 2016
All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
Dobbies Garden Café wins Quality Food Award
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Area Sales Managers
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Horticultural / Plantarea Manager (Carmarthenshire)
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Horticultural / Plantarea Manager (West Midlands)
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Technical Growing Operations Nursery Manager (UK based)
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Garden Sundries Retail Manager (Essex)
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Plant Retailing Awards - June 22nd @ National Plant Show
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Homebase St Albans to be UK Bunnings Warehouse pilot

The Homebase store at St Albans will close for a re-fit later this month and re-open with an expanded gardening department in February as the UK’s first Bunnings Warehouse, the Australian group's UK & Ireland MD told a trade association meeting this week. 

Left: Peter (PJ) Davis, MD of Bunnings UK & Ireland
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October breaks sales records in garden centres


Record sales for October are confirmed by GTN Bestsellers after a bumper half-term week saw garden centre sales reach their highest level for the last eight years...
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Wyevale Garden Centres forced to close Folkestone store
 
Wyevale Garden Centres is being forced to close its Folkestone store after the site’s landlord served notice to terminate the lease, with effect from March next year...
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Garden centre bid to increase car park in green belt land


Knights Garden Centre in Surrey is planning to increase the size of its car park to meet 'growing demand', and has submitted a planning application asking to raise the number of spaces from 168 to 196. The land the centre seeks to develop on is in the green belt...
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Invasive Brazilian flatworm arrives in UK garden centre on an imported heuchera

Growers, retailers and gardeners are being urged to stay vigilant to stop an invasive predatory flatworm, discovered in a heuchera at a garden centre, from gaining a foothold in the UK, posing a threat to soil health and wildlife...
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Maximising your potential - masses of marketing input in only one day - Tuesday November 8th
 
Marketing is of vital importance to any business. But with so many different aspects from market research and advertising to sales promotion, public relations and sales getting the marketing mix right for you can be tricky.  The HTA Marketing Forum delivers a huge range of marketing insight and ideas in one action packed day next week at Whittlebury Hall next to Silverstone...
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Who will be the winners of GTN's first Greatest Marketing Team Awards?


As part of GTN's Greatest Awards 2016, Garden Trade News will celebrate excellence in garden centre marketing by hosting and presenting the first ever Greatest Marketing Team Awards at the conference...
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Plant trees....for the sake of the iPad generation
Wyevale Garden Centres launched a campaign last week to encourage gardeners to plant more trees to improve the health and wellbeing of children growing up in technology-dependent Britain...
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Top UK nurseries to trial plant health management system

Leading UK nurseries have agreed to trial a prototype for a Plant Health Management System in 2017 following new fears over the spread of diseases in UK plant stock... 
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Squire's Freaky Friday face painting raises £304 for charity


Squire’s Garden Centre in Long Ditton raised £304 for their charity of the year The Royal Star & Garter Homes by offering spooky face painting last 'Freaky Friday'...
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
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Dobbies Garden Café wins Quality Food Award
Dobbies Garden Café in Dundee came out on top at the Quality Café Food Awards, winning in the Independent Café from a Multiple Chain category. The award, which was presented by Gareth Gates, recognised the café for its high quality food and service...
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Why Britain's just blooming great!



Self-watering planters manufacturer Amberol has announced the winners of its national photo competition celebrating ‘Blooming Britain’.
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Promote Cornus for winter colour
Colourful cornus  – the dogwood -  is the HTA’s Plant of the Moment for November.
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Meet a great grower...of facial hair






A member of staff at Wyevale Nurseries is growing a moustache this month in aid of a local hospice...
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