Wyevale Garden Centres has today announced the sale of a portfolio of five garden centres to Dobbies Garden Centres. The centres are: Gloucester; Heighley Gate; Huntingdon (pictured above); Woodbridge and Woodlands.
Daro are hosting their annual Preview Show of the 2019 Indoor, Outdoor and Laura Ashley rattan collections at its Head office showroom in Northampton, throughout the whole of October...
Whilst garden centre total volume sales for September 2018 were 2% down on 2017, they were 2% up on the average for September over the previous seven years...
The Bransford Webbs Plant Company has this week announced a change in the ownership of the company in order to ensure the security of the business for the future...
Squire’s Garden Centres’ Matt Tanner and Klondyke Group’s Jayne Scott who were sponsored by the Garden Centre Association Trust to attend the International Garden Centre Association Congress are back from their trip...
Formby growers Porters Fuchsias, supplies of the garden centre Happy Plants brand, are stepping up their recycling programme with a new label for their carbon pigment-free pots and bedding packs made from recycled green plastic drinks bottles...
Steve Purton of Dobbies at Milton Keynes has been named as the Cultivation Street Ambassador of the Year in David Domoney’s commmunity gardening campaign.
The new Flopro Classic Hose Reel launched at Glee has hit the market with 30,000 units being given away free of charge at garden centres across the country...
Dobbies have invested more than £30,000 on installing defibrillators in their 34 garden centres after hearing a moving account of a family’s bereavement...
The ‘pick it up and take it with me’ trend in gardening is set to continue says Wyevale Nurseries, as figures reveal home ownership among 25-34-year-olds is decreasing with more young people renting instead...
Glee 2018 was Wildlife World’s best yet with a staggering 60 per cent increase in new enquiries. Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, the Wildlife World team wowed garden centre buyers and retailers with its new eye-catching stand...
The Kent & Stowe ‘Dig for Victory’ gift and Christmas range really captured the imagination of visitors to the brand's 'bunker' at Glee, suppliers Crest Garden report...
The last week of September saw a welcome increase in Garden Product sales but the month ended up 2% down on last year and continued the downward trend of the past 4 years...
Celebrating the 180th anniversary of the charity dedicated to helping horticulturists, Perennial will hold its annual Party for Perennial on Tuesday 29 January 2019...
September 2018 was a great month for growing media sales, reaching an all time GTN Bestsellers high, up 17% on last year and 5% higher than the previous record set in 2016.
The second Rosebourne opened this weekend and GTN Xtra joined the invited local VIP's and press to a preview day on Thursday to bring you our photo tour of the new centre...
The horticultural industry is leading the battle against single-use plastics and plans were announced in August to introduce the first kerbside recyclable plant pots in 2019, which will completely replace the current black plastic pots that cannot be recycled. Hillier Nurseries in Hampshire took delivery of their first pots last week, making it the first nursery in the UK to grow a commercially potted crop in a recyclable pot...
Local newspapers in Essex were reporting last week that Perrywood Garden Centre in Tiptree had been fined over £100,000 for failing to protect its employees from hazardous chemicals...
