In This Issue
Safe Trading Guidance for all garden centres published by HTA
It’s #FloralFriday, our favourite day of the week!
GrowNation announce FREE ecommerce websites for Garden Centres with local delivery route optimisation
James Stamp to the rescue
Garden centre re-opening gains high attention
Introducing Cleaner Retail – helping retailers to stop the spread of Covid-19 with a one-stop solution for safe trading
Say “Thank You” to our NHS with bedding plants!
National Gardening Week is the perfect time to get involved in #FloralFriday
Find plant deliveries online with ‘Plants Near Me’ - over 450 business listed
Rosebourne appoint Carol Paris as Chief Executive
PFMA supports the HTA’s Garden Centre Reopening Campaign
A third of UK growers will be out of business before the end of the year reveals new industry survey
Dobbies supports National Gardening Week
Let your free time grow on you
Evergreen Garden Care, helping hands to combat coronavirus
Gardener’s World Mark Lane joins forces with Jeyes to launch “The Great British Garden Spruce Up”
HortAid-20 Gardening Competition, supported by Suttons and panel of well-known judges, kick starts Perennial’s emergency Covid-19 appeal
Keeping the community growing, The Gardens Group donates stock to charities, hospitals and schools
LifestyleGarden donates product to the NHS Nightingale Hospital
AQUA 2021 takes on an even more crucial role
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MSC advises garden centres to maximise relief grant opportunity and challenge rateable values
EGO’s new battery powers gardeners through the day
The trade fair Plantarium 2020 has been cancelled
GTN Xtra - Send to all
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How are suppliers faring during lockdown - Westland, Smart, Evergreen Garden Care and others are getting ready for re-opening of garden centres
Analogue survival for garden centres in a digital world
Behind the scenes at Baytree Click & Collect
Garden Leisure suppliers living in an on-line world but anticipating garden centres re-opening
Greenfingers Charity’s #floralfriday continues to bring a little floral cheer to the nation
Garden Centre Photo Tours
Haskins Snowhill re-opens after £15m re-vamp
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Safe Trading Guidance for all garden centres published by HTA

The HTA have launched the HTA Safe Trading Guidance for all garden centres. This is to allow garden centres to prepare and implement when the Government gives the go-ahead for stores to reopen...

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It’s #FloralFriday, our favourite day of the week!

Greenfingers Charity urges its supporters old and new to celebrate National Gardening Week and spread some more floral cheer by joining in #FloralFriday today...

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GrowNation announce FREE ecommerce websites for Garden Centres with local delivery route optimisation

To make retailers’ local delivery operations more efficient and scalable, GrowNation is delighted to be launching a no upfront fee, fully-featured ecommerce website powered by Visualsoft. The partnership will allow garden centres to trade online quickly and efficiently.

 

All retailers who claim their free site before midnight on Sunday 3rd May will receive a free licence to a delivery route optimisation service, for as long as they use the GrowNation platform. This will allow centres to have their daily delivery routes calculated to take the least possible time...

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James Stamp to the rescue
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If you are looking at adding extra facilities to keep your staff and customers safe when business are allowed to re-open, James Stamp Rental has the solution...

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Garden centre re-opening gains high attention

The topic of garden centre re-opening, so close to all of our hearts, reached new levels of attention today with two MP's asking questions as to when garden centres would be able to re-open during Prime Ministers Question Time today.

 

"The incredible amount of work that James Barnes, Boyd Douglas-Davies and the HTA Team are putting in on behalf of not just the membership of the HTA but all growers, retailers and landscapers.  When we look back, this work should not be over-looked by those of us in horticulture as there are some individuals who have gone above and beyond to have achieved the publicity and the support from the public and key decision makers.  They deserve our thanks..."

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Introducing Cleaner Retail – helping retailers to stop the spread of Covid-19 with a one-stop solution for safe trading

A new proposition from Ivyline, designed to help retailers re-open, comply with social distancing policies and safely trade again...

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Say “Thank You” to our NHS with bedding plants!

Bruce Harnett of Kernock Park Plants contacted GTN Xtra this week with details of bedding plant packages they have created for large NHS "Thank You" displays...

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National Gardening Week is the perfect time to get involved in #FloralFriday

#FloralFriday, now in its fifth week, has seen friends from across the gardening industry, garden lovers and many others post their favourite floral photos, videos and #FloralFriday selfies on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.  Whether you have, or have not, joined in before, National Gardening Week is the perfect time to dust down your floral shirt, jacket, tie, dress or shoes, get creative, join in the fun and show the nation that spending time in the garden is good for the heart, body and soul...

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Find plant deliveries online with ‘Plants Near Me’ - over 450 business listed

Since its launch in the first week of April, almost 450 horticultural businesses have signed up to the 'Plants Near Me' scheme...

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Rosebourne appoint Carol Paris as Chief Executive

Carol Paris has been appointed as CEO to head up the Rosebourne executive team...

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PFMA supports the HTA’s Garden Centre Reopening Campaign

The Pet Food Manufacturers Association (PFMA) supports the HTA’s Garden Centre Reopening Campaign and agree that garden centres should be included in the first phase of easing lockdown restrictions provided new measures are in place to protect public safety...

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A third of UK growers will be out of business before the end of the year reveals new industry survey

TV gardeners and the national media have joined Alan Titchmarsh to help the industry by asking the millions of gardening lovers across the UK to show their support and buy British plants when garden centres re-open...

 

"Opening garden centres now, with the same safety measures employed as in supermarkets, will give people across the country access to plants, encourage them to garden, stay healthy and productive at home and help save an industry at the heart of British life.”

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Dobbies supports National Gardening Week
 

 

 

At the start of National Gardening Week, Dobbies launched a brand-new gardening podcast to encourage the nation to get green fingered this spring and summer season and Marcus Eyles will host a Facebook Live Q&A session on Wednesday 29 April at 19:00, with a focus on grow your own...

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Let your free time grow on you

Flowers have the power of diminishing problems and absorbing the mind. They are always beautiful to behold and bring colour and joy into our lives and homes and Judith Blacklock Flower School is offering a 10% discount off all our online courses until 1st July 2020 for those who wish to further their dream of working with flowers - either as a joyful hobby or profession...

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Evergreen Garden Care, helping hands to combat coronavirus

Evergreen Garden Care has put in place a number of different measures and initiatives to continue serving our customers and maintain business as best as possible, whilst safeguarding employees wellbeing...

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Gardener’s World Mark Lane joins forces with Jeyes to launch “The Great British Garden Spruce Up”

On the back of research that reveals 6 in 10 Brits are spending more time than ever in their gardens, Jeyes has joined forces with Gardeners’ World presenter, Mark Lane, to set the nation a challenge for the month of May. They want people to use the extra time in the garden to flex their green fingers for just 30 minutes each day to spruce it up...

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HortAid-20 Gardening Competition, supported by Suttons and panel of well-known judges, kick starts Perennial’s emergency Covid-19 appeal

“Our HortAid-20 Gardening Competition is open to everyone with categories to suit all ages and abilities. Go on, have a go, you might just surprise yourself...”

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Keeping the community growing, The Gardens Group donates stock to charities, hospitals and schools
 

“Community is at the heart of what we do at The Gardens Group, so we’re looking for every opportunity to support those in need during this period..." Mike Burks, managing director of The Gardens Group and chairman of the Garden Centre Association.

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LifestyleGarden donates product to the NHS Nightingale Hospital

Set up as part of the ongoing fight against Covid-19 the temporary NHS Nightingale Hospital at ExCel London has become ‘home’ to over 1,600 support staff bravely facing the virus head-on. Thanks to LifestyleGarden and a wealth of generous donors, these workers now have a stunning garden space in which to relax and find a moment of calm away from the frontline...

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AQUA 2021 takes on an even more crucial role

AQUA 2021 will be a crucial event in the aquatics and water gardening industry, according to UK and international suppliers and retailers...

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