In This Issue
January sales up on past three years
Glee at Spring Fair is open
100km team relay for industry construction specialists
January plant sales are a good omen for a great 2020
Lubera win award for Best Novelty Bedding Plant
HTA comments on Brexit and Environment Bill
Squire's donate nearly £18,000 to local charities
Launch of Young People in Horticulture Association
Dean's Garden Centre grows funds for mental health
Barton Grange and Fron Goch win top GCA Awards
GCA Conference raises £12,000 for Greenfingers
Garden centres receive top awards at GCA conference
Your'e on the brink of a huge revolution Sir Tim Smit tells GCA delegates
Pictures from GCA Conference themed-party night
Mike Burks to take over as GCA Chairman for 2020/21
GCA appoints two new members to team of inspectors
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Gardenex announces Joe Denham as new chairman
Cleaning up garden product sales
Looking good for veg growing in 2020
Where have all the Early Birds gone?
Plenty of opportunity for Wild Bird Care sales
Carol promoted to Head of Business Support at Wyevale Nurseries
NEW Echinacea For 2020
New role for Rachel at Suffolk seedsman
The best of last week's
Haskins are buying Forest Lodge Garden Centre
Klondyke Group acquire Garden Wise Plant and Garden Centre, Dumfries
AMES has ambitious targets in 2020
Tributes to John Ashley as Sue Allen takes over Greenfingers Charity chair
Garden Centre Photo Tours
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January sales up on past three years
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Although overall sales dipped again week on week, we’ve now had four consecutive weeks of total garden centre sales volumes that are up on all of the past three years.  Even better news for the season ahead is that plant sales are driving those January gardening sales increases...

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Glee at Spring Fair is open

Glee at Spring Fair opened today (Sunday 2nd February) at the NEC. Glee at Spring Fair is an oasis of exhibitors that are a must visit for all visitors to Spring Fair who have gardening and leisure on their mind...

See our exclusive picture tour of Glee @ Spring Fair from build up
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100km team relay for industry construction specialists

Fordingbridge, the garden centre engineering and construction contractor, are taking part in the mammoth challenge to raise funds for their local hospitals. A group of staff from the company are taking part in the 60+ mile challenge to run, cycle (or stagger!) from their West Sussex factory to Fordingbridge town in the New Forest...

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January plant sales are a good omen for a great 2020
 

With plant sales running at almost 10% up so far through January this year it’s a potentially very good omen for gardening in 2020. After the uncertainly of last year and a very wet winter our customers appear to be looking for as much cheer as possible to brighten their gardens, patios and balconies...

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Lubera win award for Best Novelty Bedding Plant

The Lubera team are proud to announce that they have won the award for Best Novelty Bedding Plant at IPM Essen Trade Show.  At the IPM the team wowed the judges with their brand new, and let's be honest, jolly exciting new peanut plant, Justmore!

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HTA comments on Brexit and Environment Bill
 

The Government introduced its Environment Bill to Parliament on Thursday and the Horticultural Trades Association has issue its response. The HTA's Director of Policy and Communications, James Clark, has also commented on Brexit...

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Squire's donate nearly £18,000 to local charities

 

Visitors to Santa’s grotto at Squire’s Garden Centres last Christmas have helped to raise nearly £18,000 for local charities...

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Launch of Young People in Horticulture Association
 

Young People in Horticulture Association (YPHA), a group designed to bring together the under 35s of ornamental horticulture to facilitate collaboration, education and innovation, has been launched...

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Dean's Garden Centre grows funds for mental health

The staff at Dean’s Garden Centre York are celebrating a blossoming year of fundraising with a generous donation of over £16,000 to York-based charity York Mind...

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Barton Grange and Fron Goch win top GCA Awards

Barton Grange (above) regained the GCA Destination Garden Centre of the Year award and Fron Goch (below) took the accolade for GCA Garden Centre of the Year at the GCA Annual Conference in Bristol...

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GCA Conference raises £12,000 for Greenfingers
 

This year's GCA Greenfingers challenge raised a massive £12,000 for the Greenfingers Charity...

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Garden centres receive top awards at GCA conference

Garden centre staff across the country are celebrating after receiving awards at the Garden Centre Association’s annual conference in Bristol. They included Ruxley Rose winners Cowells Garden Centre (GC) above and Perrywood Tiptree (DGC) below.

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Your'e on the brink of a huge revolution Sir Tim Smit tells GCA delegates
 

Sir Tim Smit, founder of the Eden Project in Cornwall, has urged garden centres to see the environment crisis as a massive opportunity to make a difference to people's lives. "You should see yourselves as being at the pointy end of a new revolution," he told the GCA Conference in Bristol today (Tuesday)...

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Pictures from GCA Conference themed-party night

A special themed party night at the Garden Centre Association conference saw delegates dressed in all types of fancy dress. The winners of the Best Fancy Dress Award were King Canute & The Jellyfish (pictured above).

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Mike Burks to take over as GCA Chairman for 2020/21
 

Mike Burks will take over as Garden Centre Association (GCA) Chairman for 2020/21 at the start of the organisation’s annual conference tomorrow, January 27, 2020...

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GCA appoints two new members to team of inspectors

The Garden Centre Association has announced Phil McCann and Mark Taylor will be joining its team of inspectors. The pair will be responsible for inspecting member garden centres in South Thames with Phil inspecting those in the Garden Centre category and Mark checking members in the Destination Garden Centre category.

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