After the record breaking, and season saving, bumper May for garden centre sales last year no-one expected May 2019 to top that. GTN Bestsellers Epos data analysis reveals the month ended 9.4% down on 2018 but 5% higher than the average for May between 2011 and 2019.

With all the growing activity that has started this spring there should be plenty of reasons for customers to re-visit their garden centre and spend more, so we look forward to reporting good sales this month.

GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year (week 22)

• Garden Products - up 2%
• Growing Media - up 14%
• Wild Bird Care - up 13%
• Veg-2-Gro - up 24%
• All Plants Index - down 10%
• All Items Index - down 1%

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