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GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards Bumper Issue - read on-line here
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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
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Read the issue on-line here
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Corby + Fellas announce partnership with The Plant Place
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Corby + Fellas have announced the partnership with The Plant Place and the implementation of their acclaimed WinRetail System to run the Garden Centres Retail, Hospitality, Loyalty and Events operations...
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Wildlife World leads the way to biodiversity net gain
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Wildlife World, a pioneer in biodiversity products, has launched a range of premium wildlife habitats tailored for nature restoration and biodiversity net gain projects through habitat supplement intervention...
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Flowerpot suppliers merge into British Flowerpots

Naylor Gardenware has agreed to merge with Smith & Jennings with effect from Friday 1 March 2024...
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Glee New Product Award winner secures £50k Dragons' Den investment offer

Lancashire entrepreneur Gemma Connolly, whose unique edible greeting cards for dogs Scoff Paper won a Glee New Product Award in 2021, has secured major backing from BBC Dragons’ Den star Sara Davies...
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Garden Re-Leaf Day will you join the 250 challenge?
This year, Greenfingers has set the “250 challenge” which they hope could help retailers to become the biggest combined contributors to this special Garden Re-Leaf Day event...
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GCA Conference digs deep for the Greenfingers Charity
The recent Garden Centre Association (GCA) conference was not only an informative and educational event, but it also featured a lot of fundraising for the garden retail sector’s adopted charities, including Greenfingers. In fact, delegates dug so deep into their pockets, wallets and purses that it has been confirmed that over £25,0000 was raised for Greenfingers during the event!

Woodlodge’s Ian Flounders raised over £7.500 by shaving off his ‘Santa’ beard.
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Cost of doing business in environmental horticulture – HTA urges action in Spring Statement
The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) has set our clear asks to the Chancellor of the Exchequer ahead of the Spring Statement 2024....
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Michael Gove MP visits Plants Limited to discuss critical April border changes

As part of its push to get clarity on the details of the April border changes, the Horticultural Trades Association joined Plants Limited in welcoming the Rt Hon Michael Gove MP to their site in Surrey...
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GCA inducts Mike Burks as Honorary Member
Mike Burks, managing director of The Gardens Group, which owns Castle Gardens in Sherborne, Brimsmore Gardens in Yeovil and Poundbury Gardens near Dorchester, has been awarded Honorary Membership of the Garden Centre Association (GCA)...
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Sparsholt College teams up with Colegrave Seabrook Foundation for show garden

Sparsholt College, Hampshire, has teamed up with the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation to create Sparsholt’s 2024 RHS Chelsea Flower Show Garden entitled ‘Plants, Routes & Branches’...
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GTN’s Greatest Christmas Award winners revealed
Gold awards for Haskins Snowhill, Old Railway Line, Gates, Barton Grange, Pugh’s Radyr, Polhill, Woodlands (Kent), Chessington, BGC Harrogate, Squires Badshot Lea, Cooks, Birkacre, Busy Bee

BGC Harrogate, Squires Badshot Lea, Cooks, Birkacre, Pugh’s Radyr, Barton Grange and Busy Bee have picked up Greatest Garden Centre Christmas Team golds in GTN’s Greatest Christmas Awards, presented at Spring Fair on Monday. Kaemingk walked away with The Greatest Christmas Supplier gold...

See the full list of winners and all the photos from the awards presentations at Spring Fair
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Sponsors giving prizes for the winners

Our team of judges have now completed the task of visiting the 100 garden centres who were nominated for GTN’s Greatest Christmas Awards 2023. And our sponsors which include: AMES, Glee 2024, Kaemingk, LeisureGrow, NOMA , MorePeople, PATS 2024, Smart Garden Products, Solex 2024, Stars for Europe, Three Kings and Woodmansterne have been lining up prizes for the category winners...
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Mountfield donates to British Heart Foundation
The Mountfield team like to help charities whenever they can and were pleased this Heart Month to make a donation of one of their mowers to be auctioned off for the British Heart Foundation (BHF) at the Cape Cornwall Golf Club...
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Squires Award for Bransford Webbs

The Bransford Webbs Plant Company were thrilled to be awarded the Best Hardy Plant Supplier of the Year at the Squires Annual Plant Show last week at Squires, West Horsley, for the second year in a row...
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RECOUP publications aim to improve industry knowledge of packaging sorting and recycling processes
Plastics resource efficiency and recycling charity, RECOUP, have released their latest set of case studies ‘MRF Processes – Understanding Material Sorting’ and ‘Packaging Design Principles – Small Changes for a Big Impact.’
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JUB Holland, Keukenhof & Rijnbeek Perennials donate ‘garden’ to the Greenfingers Charity

Dutch flower experts, JUB Holland, Keukenhof and Rijnbeek Perennials will be showcasing many of its stunning early flowering varieties through a mini ‘perennial meadow’ display at the Garden Press Event. And it has been confirmed that post-event this garden will be donated to the Greenfingers Charity, where it will be replanted at one of its children’s hospice gardens....
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RHS brings radiance of popular orchid show to the capital

The Royal Horticultural Society is bringing a slice of tropical life to the heart of London as one of its most popular events, the annual RHS Orchid Show, comes to the capital next month...
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Committing to significantly reducing carbon emissions annually

Branded Garden Products has announced it has become a Planet Mark Certified organisation – a reward for its commitment and efforts towards combatting climate change...
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Hottest garden trends for 2024, according to the experts

Johanna Elvidge, Head of Domestic Design at Marshalls has shared the garden, patio and colour trends that are likely to make an appearance in 2024...
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National Children’s Gardening Week partners with The World of Peter Rabbit
Save the date! National Children’s Gardening Week will again be partnering with THE WORLD OF PETER RABBIT from 25 May to 2 June 2024...
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Hillier welcomes two new Account Managers to Amenity team
Hillier has announced the appointment of two new account managers, Ben Kyte and Gavin Bell, to support its Amenity division...
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Industry, government and science work together to protect plant health
Key industry figures including Defra’s Chief Plant Health Officer Nicola Spence, Fera Science Ltd CEO Dr Andrew Swift, and Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) CEO Fran Barnes introduced a host of experts from Defra, Fera and APHA (Animal and Plant Health Agency) at an exclusive interactive event for HTA grower members held at the Fera Laboratories in York on 14 February...
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RHS thanks Matthew Pottage for contribution to RHS Garden Wisley
After 20 years at RHS Garden Wisley, nearly nine of them as Curator, Matthew Pottage is spreading his roots and will be leaving the RHS at the end of May to take up a new role, Head of Horticulture and Landscape Strategy, at The Royal Parks...
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New Communications Manager for Luceco
Leading lighting, electrical and power giant, Luceco Group has appointed Sarah Thompson as Communications Manager...
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Connecting people with living green for healthier cities
Prominent researchers from around the globe presented their findings on the health benefits of urban greening at the ‘Living Green, Liveable Cities’ Research Symposium on 4th-5th February 2024 at Expo 2023 Doha, Qatar...
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King Charles III Tulipa in flower at Keukenhof and at Monty Don’s Longmeadow
Last autumn, H.E. Ms Joanna Roper, British ambassador to the Netherlands, Keukenhof’s director Sandra Bechtholt and gardener Patrick van Dijk planted Tulipa King Charles III. This Spring the regal golden bloom will reach its glorious peak...
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The best of last week's
If you missed last week's GTN Xtra, below are the most-read stories...
Dobbies launches outlet stores in Northumberland and Warwickshire
Dobbies has opened two new outlet stores at its branches in Morpeth in Northumberland and Atherstone in Warwickshire...
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Dobbies appoints Andy Hannan as Commercial Director
Dobbies has appointed Andy Hannan as Commercial Director. Andy has previously held senior commercial roles at retailers such as Homebase, Halfords, Jessops and Argos...
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DCUK goes from strength to strength
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It’s fair to say that the DCUK brand has gone from strength to strength. Brand advertising and regular emails (sent to a passionate fanbase of collectors) has seen incredible levels of interest...
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Kate’s run for Greenfingers run has now raised over £7,500
Greenfingers Charity supporter, Kate Ebbens, who has vowed to spend her 2024 running every single day with the aim of raising thousands for the children’s hospice garden charity, reports on how the first two months of her challenge has gone. Kate is hoping to raise as much as £10,000 in 366 days...
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Cancer-free Kev to run a half marathon in his wellies
Leon Boots director Kevin Burgess is celebrating 40 years cancer free after he was diagnosed with cancer as a teenager. He is putting himself through his paces training to run the London Landmarks Half Marathon in his wellies to raise vital funds and awareness for a charity close to his heart...
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