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Autumn bulb planting boosts garden centre buying activity



The weather has resulted in plant and bulb sales gathering momentum, according to GTN Bestsellers.

This buying activity helped to keep the total volume of sales ahead of last year in a week when even Christmas volumes dipped below last year’s early October levels.

Daffodil Tete-a-Tete is once again the bestselling bulb in the UK with Tulips Dutch Master and Hotpants following on behind.

Out in the planteria, pansies, cyclamen and wallflowers are top of the charts and the GTN Xtra team has seen some great autumn and winter colour displays while visiting garden centres this week (see gallery of pictures below).

Our GTN Bestsellers Tip of the Week is to make the most of colour outside and get your winter and Christmas planteria themes ready now.

Your customers will want to buy plants – you are a garden centre after all.

To acknowledge the vital role that planteria teams play we’re adding a Festive Planteria Team to The Greatest Chrsitmas Awards. Sponsored by Bord Na Mona, we’ll be visiting nominated teams to find out just how festive they can be! Send nominations to trevor.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk

Check out the GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year...

  • Garden Products – up 2%
  • Christmas – down 11%
  • Growing Media – up 22%
  • All items index – up 6%

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