GTN Xtra - GTN Xtra - Issue 31 2017

In This Issue

Sad news - Alistair Lorimer dies

Bunnings UK No. 3 - Hemel Hempstead in pictures

Malus toringo Aros is best in show at New Plant Awards

Adenophora White Blaze wins Visitor Vote Award

Visitors vote for the best retail inspiration ideas

Picture round-up from the HTA National Plant Show

Sales heat up as temperatures soar

Conna gets set for wing-walk in aid of Greenfingers

Bookings up at GCA Plant Area Forum at Ball Colegrave

Steph McGovern to host HTA Garden Futures Conference

Klondyke Group donates to innovative neurological charity

Exclusively Shows deliver top quality visitors

Greenfingers Ambassadors meet at National Plant Show

Horticultural Plant Buyer

Get your own copy of GTN Xtra

GIMA Awards 2017 – last few tickets remaining

Milano Cube breaking the mould for Kelkay

Garden product sales bounce back

Runner beans toppled by cucumbers

Further growth for growing media sales

Sales of Roses more than double in volume

Garden Plants of the Month for 2018 announced

Eden Halls Greenhouses renames as Juliana Group

FlowerTrials: 4 out of 5 exhibitors see rise in visitor numbers

Garden centre helps to train refugees

Plans to build new homes on garden centre site

Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week

Buy your subscription to GTN Bestsellers

Situations Vacant

Horticultural Plant Buyer
£36,880 pa

GTN Bestsellers

Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week

Every week GTN receives and analyses epos data from a number of UK garden centres to produce the GTN Bestsellers charts...

Buy your subscription to GTN Bestsellers

Buy your GTN Bestsellers Subscription here

Send us your news and great ideas

Contact us with your news.

Email neil.pope@tgcmc.co.uk, or trevor.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk or call the GTN News team on 01733 775700

Sad news - Alistair Lorimer dies

Sad news has reached the GTN Xtra office of the death of Alistair Lorimer last week after a long battle with cancer...

| Comment (9)

Bunnings UK No. 3 - Hemel Hempstead in pictures

Hot on the heels of the HTA National Plant Show, GTNXtra called into the third Bunnings UK store at Hemel Hempstead which opened two weeks ago. Steve Pitcher, ex Wyevale Garden Centres and B&Q, was also at the plant show with the Bunnings Homebase team...

See GTN Xtra's exclusive photo tour of the new store

| Comment (0)

Malus toringo Aros is best in show at New Plant Awards

Malus toringo Aros from Frank P Matthews has been crowned this year as Best in Show at the New Plant Awards on the opening morning of the HTA National Plant Show, sponsored by Hortipak, at Stoneleigh Park, Coventry...

| Comment (0)

Adenophora White Blaze wins Visitor Vote Award

Visitors to the HTA National Plant Show, sponsored by Hortipak, have voted Adenophora White Blaze from Darby Nursery Stock and Fairweather’s Nursery as Best in Show at the New Plant Awards...

| Comment (0)

Visitors vote for the best retail inspiration ideas

Visitors to the HTA National Plant Show, sponsored by Hortipak, and Nursery Supply Show, which took place this week at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire, voted for their most inspiring retail stands and concepts at the events.

Allensmore Nurseries came second in the Planting the Seed Award category for their bright and breezy nautical themed display.

| Comment (0)

Picture round-up from the HTA National Plant Show

Here's our colourful round-up from this week's HTA Plant Show....

Click to see gallery of pictures

| Comment (0)

Sales heat up as temperatures soar

After the sales crash of the ‘election week’, garden centre sales volumes bounced back to be ahead of last year despite a heat wave that could easily have seen more people disappearing to the beach rather than visiting garden centres...

| Comment (0)

Conna gets set for wing-walk in aid of Greenfingers

Haskins buying director Conna Powles is hoping to raise £4,000 for Greenfingers when she takes part in a daring wing walk on a bi-plane...

| Comment (0)

Bookings up at GCA Plant Area Forum at Ball Colegrave

The GCA is hosting its second annual GCA Plant Area Forum for plant area managers and plant buyers at Ball Colegrave on July 20...

| Comment (0)

Steph McGovern to host HTA Garden Futures Conference

Garden retail – the great escape – is the theme for this year’s HTA Garden Futures Conference and Dinner, which takes place on Wednesday 4 October at Heythrop Park in Oxfordshire. This year’s event will be hosted by award winning broadcaster Steph McGovern from Breakfast News...

| Comment (0)

Klondyke Group donates to innovative neurological charity

The Klondyke Group have made a donation of £420.81 to the innovative work of Funding Neuro. This money was raised through a series of Dress Down days and raffles enjoyed by the staff at The Klondyke Group’s head office in Polmont...

| Comment (0)

Exclusively Shows deliver top quality visitors

The unique ‘invited buyer’ format of the Exclusively Shows has delivered a strong visitor profile for exhibitors once again, confirmed show organiser, Brooke House Exhibitions...

| Comment (0)

Greenfingers Ambassadors meet at National Plant Show

Greenfingers Ambassadors met up at the HTA National Plant Show last week...

| Comment (0)

GTN June 2017 Issue
To view a digital version click here

Garden Trade News

Get your own copy of GTN Xtra

with all the news direct to your e-mail inbox...

GIMA Awards 2017 – last few tickets remaining

With just a few weeks to go until the winners of the 2017 GIMA Awards are crowned, interested parties are urged to book their place now to avoid disappointment, as tickets are selling fast...

Milano Cube breaking the mould for Kelkay

For the 2017 season Kelkay introduced a series of sixteen new contemporary styled water features with prices ranging from £79.99 to £299.99. The star of the show is the beautifully sleek ‘Milano Cube’, inspired by the perpendicular symmetry of a classical Italian courtyard and built with a polished metal finish and sparkling LEDs...

Garden product sales bounce back

Last week saw a bounce back for garden product sales but GTN Bestsellers Top 50 volumes are still lagging behind last year...

Runner beans toppled by cucumbers

Cucumber sales toppled Runner Beans off the top of the GTN Bestsellers Veg-2-Gro chart last week...

Further growth for growing media sales

There are indications of further room for growth in growing media sales this week after GTN Bestsellers Top 50 volumes grew by 14% on the same week last year...

Sales of Roses more than double in volume

With many varieties in bloom in garden centre planterias, sales of Roses more than doubled last week which meant they jumped six places up the GTN Bestsellers chart to No 4...

Garden Plants of the Month for 2018 announced

The product selection of the Garden Plant of the Month for 2018 has been completed in collaboration with the product specialists from Royal FloraHolland...

Eden Halls Greenhouses renames as Juliana Group

One of the UK´s longest established greenhouse manufacturers, Eden Halls Greenhouses has been renamed as The Juliana Group Ltd, a new company which includes the Halls, Eden and Juliana greenhouse brands...

FlowerTrials: 4 out of 5 exhibitors see rise in visitor numbers

With 7,135 registered visitors from 67 countries, the FlowerTrials reports 2017 as another successful year...

Garden centre helps to train refugees

Syrians taking refuge in the UK are learning a range of skills thanks to a Sussex garden centre...

Plans to build new homes on garden centre site

Plans have been submitted to demolish a Cheshire garden centre and build new houses in its place...