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

Given the drop in footfall due to bad weather, the fact that almost as many Primula were sold week on week and a  4% increase in planted Hyacinth sales shows a continued appetite for instant colour...

Sales of National Garden Gift Card hit record levels over the Christmas period, which will help boost garden centre footfall in the coming season. There are now £4.7m of unspent gift cards in circulation, with most set to be spent in garden centres soon at over 700 redeeming sites.

Over the years Glazebury based Bents Garden & Home has raised thousands of pounds for local causes through its Charity of the Year initiative and each year it gets harder to choose a new charity, which is why the Centre has put the 2018 decision into the hands of its customers...

Wintry weather slowed down the overall early growth of garden product sales, but that didn’t stop further sales increases for garden lighting lines. Nine different garden lighting lines increased sales week on week...

The House of Lords private dining room played host to a fundraising dinner and charity auction on behalf of the Worshipful Company of Gardeners. The event was in support of a project called Future Gardeners...

Leading Indoor Pot supplier Ivyline have announce their Midlands Sales agent, David Welling, as their Agent of the Year for 2017...

Stuttgarter, the traditional January onion set besteller, is back on top this week, jumping ahead of Red Baron...

Early Bird offers continue to fly through the tills despite the wintry weather causing growing related sales to cool off last week. Seed composts, however, performed well as gardeners started to prepare indoors for early sowing....

That is just what a scholarship or bursary award from the David Colegrave Foundation can do for you; boost your learning potential, taking away at least some of your financial worries...

A number of prestigious awards were presented at the GCA conference at The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon, including Webbs West Hagley winning the Dick Allen Award for the Most Improved Garden Centre...

Paul Dye's funeral will be held on Friday 16th February 1.20pm at Barham Crematorium, Canterbury Rd, Barham, Canterbury, Kent CT4 6QU . Paul Dye sadly lost his battle with cancer age 55...

If you are on your way to Harrogate and wanting some extra input of ideas for your Christmas 2018, take a look at GTN's photo tours of 30+ garden centres this Christmas including:

• Aylett Nurseries
• Barton Grange
  Baytree
  Bents
  Blue Diamond Trentham
  Brookside, Kent
  Castle Gardens
  Daleside Klondyke
  Dobbies Mellville
  Fresh at Burcot
  Fron Goch
  Frosts Woburn Sands
  Gardenwise
  Gouldings
  Haskins Ferndown
  Haskins West End
  Hetland
  Kirktown
  Mains of Drum
  Millbrook Gravesend
  Notcutts Solihull
  Old Railway Line
  Planters Tamworth
  Pughs Radyr
  Raemoir
  Ruxley Manor
  Silverbirch
  Summerhills
  Thurrock
  Whitehall Lacock
  Woodlands Ash, Kent