Dobbies has strengthened its senior leadership team with the appointment of Jonathan Wass as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Joining Dobbies from his role as CFO of Cancer Research UK, Jonathan brings more than 20 years’ experience from across some of the biggest names in British retail. He is a former Chief Financial Officer at Boots UK; Commercial Finance Director at Sainsbury’s; Finance Director at Morrisons; and Head of Business Accounting at Asda...

The launch of an exciting new category from Woodmansterne means customers can now get everything they need to coordinate their gift packaging...

Jardinopia Limited, a multi award-winning designer and manufacturer of home and garden gift products, is looking for two experienced Senior Sales Account Managers/New Business Generators for both the North and South Regions of the UK to help take the business to the next level...

Entries are now open for this year’s GIMA Awards, which be presented at the Gala Dinner taking place on 7th November at the five-star Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, South Wales.

Sipcam were the Sword of Excellence Winners in 2023.

Retail and economic challenges, sustainability, and adaptation to changing market dynamics were just some of the key topics that were explored at the annual GIMA Day Conference, which took place at Horticulture House, Chilton...

Despite facing a deluge of rain across the United Kingdom, the Horticultural Trade Association’s (HTA) Market Update in March 2024 reports that garden centres in February 2024 remained positive, with a +6% increase in overall garden centre sales compared to the same period last year...

To raise the importance of a front garden, David Domoney and his team transformed a front garden in a real-time live television broadcast in under two hours.

It has become a more than good custom that at Easter, during the Holy Mass celebrated by the Pope, all kinds of colourful flower arrangements decorate St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, in Rome...

Party for Perennial this spring at your charity party of the year! Let’s come together to make a difference for all those working with plants, trees, flowers or grass...

After some serious negotiating RHS Director General Clare Matterson has persuaded the co-designers of the RHS No Adults Allowed Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, pupils from Sulivan School, London, to agree that adults can enter the children’s garden..

In what has been challenging trading conditions, it’s encouraging to hear that 94% of exhibition space at this year’s Spoga+gafa has already been accounted. Taking place from June 16-18 at Koelnmesse in Cologne, the event is the world’s biggest trade fair for outdoor decoration, bbq’s and accessories...

British Garden Centres has announced its renewed commitment to providing customers with quality and value through an extensive range of locally grown plants, cultivated right here in the UK...

Apta has created five special spring promotions, including up to 39% off RRPs, to ensure that garden retailers across the country can offer their customers access to some of the newest planter designs...

Gordale Garden and Home Centre has announced the remarkable success of its annual Charity Santa’s Grotto. The event, held in collaboration with The Hospice of the Good Shepherd, not only spread festive cheer but also raised an impressive £35,836.04 for a worthy cause...

Leading garden ladder specialist, Henchman, has been awarded the prestigious iF Design Award 2024 for not one, but two of its pioneering garden products - the Fully Adjustable Tripod Ladderand Henchman Lifting Harness...

Burgon & Ball is launching an elegant new design collection in its top-selling ‘RHS Gifts for Gardeners’ range of gardening gifts. Entitled ‘Asteraceae’, the new design showcases flowers from the daisy family...

GTN February 2024 - GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards Bumper Issue

• The Greatest Christmas Awards presentations at Spring Fair
• GCA Conference Award winners
• Primeur: the home of doormats
• Environmental perceptions of garden centres
• Westlands New Horizon Community Fund
• Busy Bee tops the customer vote for Christmas greatness
• 23 pages of judges photos and comments from The Greatest Christmas Awards start here: Barton Grange, Cooks, BGC Harrogate, Pugh’s, Gates, Haskins Snowhill, Woodlands, Kent, Squires Badshot Lea, Polhill, Old Railway Line, Klondyke High Legh, Poundbury, Birkacre, Alton, Blue Diamond Newbridge, Garsons Esher, Brimsmore, Glendoick, Chessington, Wentworth, Klondyke Astbury Meadow, Cambridge Home & Garden, Bents, BGC Studley, Coolings, Newquay, The Grange, Garsons Titchfield, Keydell, Perrywood Tiptree, BGC, Dobbies, Gouldings Santa Experience, Dobbies Edinburgh and Tewkesbury, Mackenzie & Cruickshank, Munros, Pengelly, Planters Tamworth
• Thank you to our Sponsors
• Flashes of Christmas Inspiration
• Harrogate Show Ideas for Christmas 2024
• Planting Manifesto Ideas – HTA Column
• Supply Chain Challenges – GIMA Column