In This Issue
Dobbies report profits of £121m for FY 2025 after loss of £367m in FY 2024
Do you serve The Greatest Garden Centre Afternoon Tea?
Who has The Greatest Catering Support Team?
Your restaurant and coffee shop customers will be the judges of Greatness
Who are The Greatest Food & Drink Teams in garden centres?
Blue Diamond's Bridgemere Show Gardens is a strong contender in this year’s RHS Partner Garden of the Year Competition 2025
Squire’s donates £6,300 to Greenfingers Charity to support children’s hospice gardens
FYRON set to ignite interest at Glee 2025 with innovative Grill Guru & Inferno Outdoor cooking ranges
GCA releases 97th new GROW course focusing on herbaceous plants
Buzz Box Brings Beekeeping to Garden Centres – Abercorn Leads the Way
Durstons teases major launch for Glee 2025
Yorkshire Garden Centre Group's Yorkshire Day charity spinathon tops £1,000
Sell to gardeners at BBC Gardeners' World Autumn Fair
Get your copy of GTN Xtra
Hornby George PR expands team with appointment of Sally Jee
Get on board with EPR, says BHETA, as latest rules confirmed
The best of last week's
Hillier Nurseries and Garden Centres announce the passing of John Hillier
Horticulture in Action…
RocketGro showcases CO2 capture plant during HTA visit
Corby + Fellas implement WinRetail at three garden centres
Garland set to launch 30 new products at Glee
The Great Summer Sale
British Garden Centres thank the industry for an amazing year in GTN's August Issue, read on-line here
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Dobbies report profits of £121m for FY 2025 after loss of £367m in FY 2024

Dobbies Garden Centres Group Ltd has just published it's accounts for Financial year 2024 and 2025 which were held back due to the Restructuring Plan the company went through last year.  Turnover in 2024 was £271m falling to £257m in 2025...
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Do you serve The Greatest Garden Centre Afternoon Tea?

One of the most eagerly sought after catering awards that GTN ran in the past was for The Greatest Afternoon Tea Team.  The judges really had a tough job going out and tasing them all!

 

This year, if you believe your team currently serve The Greatest Garden Centre Afternoon Tea, you have the opportunity of bringing your Afternoon Tea to Glee to be displayed on the “Feed Your Business Stage” and judged by a panel of experts who will decide an overall Afternoon Tea Team winner plus regional awards too...
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Who has The Greatest Catering Support Team?

Every good garden centre Food & Drink operation is only as good as the back of house support they get from their Wash-up teams, their Marketing Teams and increasingly their EPOS teams...
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Your restaurant and coffee shop customers will be the judges of Greatness

As customer service and customer satisfaction are the keys to the ongoing success of garden centre catering, the winners of The Greatest Food & Drink Team awards will be decided by the number and quality of customer votes your teams receive before the closing date of September 7th 2025...
Download the voting posters, voting postcards and voting QR code here
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Who are The Greatest Food & Drink Teams in garden centres?

Back by popular demand are GTN’s Greatest Awards for garden centre catering teams. Recognising the excellence of Garden Centre Food & Drink Teams across the country, the awards will be announced and presented at Glee on the “Feed Your Business Stage” at 5:00pm on Wednesday 17th September.  Will your teams be among the winners?
Read more and see details of how to enter and get your customers voting for you
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Blue Diamond's Bridgemere Show Gardens is a strong contender in this year’s RHS Partner Garden of the Year Competition 2025

Bridgemere Show Gardens, an RHS Partner Garden and owned by Blue Diamond Garden Centres, is one of the entrants in this year’s Horticultural Society (RHS) Partner Garden of the Year competition.

Bridgemere Show Gardens is unique as it is the only place in the UK, and even the World, where visitors can see so many former RHS award- winning show gardens all in one place...
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Squire’s donates £6,300 to Greenfingers Charity to support children’s hospice gardens

Squire’s Garden Centres has made a donation of £6,300 to Greenfingers Charity, raised through the sale of carrier bags across its 17 centres over the past year...
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FYRON set to ignite interest at Glee 2025 with innovative Grill Guru & Inferno Outdoor cooking ranges
 

Glee 2025, the UK’s leading garden and outdoor living trade show, is delighted to welcome FYRON as one of its newest exhibitors....
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GCA releases 97th new GROW course focusing on herbaceous plants

Garden Centre Association (GCA) and Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) members can now access the latest GCA Garden Retail Online Workshops (GROW) course and this time it’s designed to help their plant area teams...
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Buzz Box Brings Beekeeping to Garden Centres – Abercorn Leads the Way

 

 

Abercorn Plant and Garden Centre is the first UK retailer to stock the Buzz Box Beekeeper’s Starter Pack – a new-to-garden-centres product designed to help more people take up the vital hobby of beekeeping...
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Durstons teases major launch for Glee 2025
 

Buyers are in for a treat at Glee this year, as Durstons reveals it has something big in store for the show – an announcement that will mark an exciting new chapter for the company...
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British Garden Centres thank the industry for an amazing year in GTN's August Issue, read on-line here

GTN August 2025. In this issue:

  • BGC thanks the industry - GTN exclusive
  • Hat’s off to our growers – industry views on excellent plant supplies this year
  • The heritage behind Durston Garden Products
  • GTN’s Greatest Food & Drink Awards – Enter NOW!
  • Power Up – a new lease of life for Pelsis Doff
  • Greenfingers Summer FUNdraising update
  • 200 years of Henry Bell
  • SOLEX 2025 review – winners and new products
  • Invest in the experience with Fordingbridge
  • Latest innovations from Spoga+gafa 2025
  • All the regional winners of the 2025 GCA inspections
  • Get ready for PATS25 in Birmingham
  • Show Stopping Plants – GTN Planteria
  • Never a dull moment - HTA Viewpoint
Read the issue on-line here
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Yorkshire Garden Centre Group's Yorkshire Day charity spinathon tops £1,000

Team members at Yorkshire Garden Centres who held a multi-site spinathon on Yorkshire Day raised £1,038 for their charity of the year...
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Sell to gardeners at BBC Gardeners' World Autumn Fair

BBC Gardeners’ World Autumn Fair at Audley End are inviting applications from businesses across the gardening sector, from established names to emerging brands to take stands at the show whihc celebrates its fourth successful year...
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