Scotsdales, Cowells and The Old Railway Line were Gold Award winners in The Greatest Plant Retailing Awards presented at The HTA National Plant Show yesterday...
The management team at Gardman, led by Chairman Jonathan Halford have completed a management buy out of the business, backed by Rutland Partners. Sales Director, Steve Harper, told GTN Xtra this morning; "It's awesome. Gardman is now on a really strong footing going forward This is really, really positive."
Three plant suppliers stood out from the crowd in the voting for The Greatest Plant Supplier of the Year. The plant supplier with the most votes and Gold Award winner was Hillier Nurseries...
Salvia Love & Wishes from Darby Nursery Stock & Kernock Park Plants has been crowned best in show at the New Plant Awards at The HTA National Plant Show...
Five gold winners of The Greatest Outdoor Living Sales Awards will have the added prize of receiving their prizes at this year's spoga+gafa exhibition in Cologne, Germany. One person from each of the five winners will be treated to travel to and from Cologne plus one night's accommodation as The Greatest Awards really celebrate going on tour this year.
There are almost two million in people in the UK who are suffering sight loss. Or to put it another way, there are almost two million potential garden centre customers who are suffering sight loss. Are those two million people welcome in your café? asks Garden Centre and Catering Consultant Doug Stewart...
Chris Brown, of Turpin Smale, highlighted bird watching as an area of interest for cafés and restuarants to focus on for attracting customers in his presentation at the HTA Catering Conference...
Halfway through June and volume sales continue to run up on last year – 13% up to date according to EPoS data supplied by garden centres for GTN Bestsellers. Last week’s sales even surpassed volumes in the same week of 2013 when we had the previous record June sales after that really dismal April and May of that year.
Introduced in 2014 to help bring plants back to the centre of Glee, the Green Heart brought together some of the biggest and most respected UK growers to showcase 2015 plant ranges. Incredibly well received the area has undergone some exciting changes ahead of the 2015 show...
Poplars, Groves and Barton Grange have all won Gold in The Greatest Awards. Which garden centres will be leaving the HTA Futures Conference with Gold this year?
The award for Best Plant Display at the HTA National Plant Show, has been won by Wyevale Nurseries for their ‘Bringing the inside out’ themed display...
The GTN Bestsellers Garden Products Top 50 chart is still being dominated by lighting lines although plant food for both outdoor and indoor use is showing up prominently in this week’s sales data...
Vital Earth Farm Manure (50 litres) is the star performer in the Growing Media chart, claiming the highest climber accolade and jumping 20 places to No 18...
