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Alton, Chessington and Fosseway collect Greatest Awards at spoga+gafa
Bramblecrest and Kadai, by Wilstone House are The Greatest Outdoor Leisure Suppliers of the Year
Slow start – but Highfield's summer turnover was 28% up
Bake Off audience watching longer Gardeners' World show? Not yet...
Garden Solutions in a box, masses of inspiration and a door stopper showstopper from Elho at spoga+gafa
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Garden Solutions in a box, masses of inspiration and a door stopper showstopper from Elho at spoga+gafa
    

GTN Xtra has just returned from spoga+gafa and after walking miles, it really does live up to it's biggest garden trade show in the world reputation, we bring you our photo gallery to give you a flavour of what was on offer.

GTN joined the HTA Study Tour to the show that also includes visits to German garden retailers today.

Our picture gallery includes the EFSA Concept Store where they were making european reatailers consider providing many more garden solutions to their customers rather than just selling products.  "How many gardens have you sold this week?" The massive array of BBQ's in Hall 7 featured many wood burning ovens and grills and the Heston Blumenthal Hub BBQ concept from everdone was a big crowd puller.  (The soft toy hamster on a rotisserie on another stand was also proving a big photo opportunity.)

Garden Decoration was a big and bright as ever at the show with pots and pots and pots filling Halls 10.1 and Hall 9.1.  Elho had one of the neatest pots on display - a development from their popular balcony hang over planters a clever designer has developed the doorstopper pot.  Fill it with colourful plants and you can easily wheel it into position to hold outside doors open during the summer - very clever.

The halls and halls of furniture had plenty of weave but also a noticeable future trend of more upholstered garden furniture, even somewith built in LED lighting... Resin also seemed to be having a renaissance in Europe.

Exporting UK companies were well represented in the Gardenex area of Hall 9 and elsewhere around the show.  All that GTN Xtra spoke to reported good levels oninterest, orders and new leads from the show.

Hozelock launched a host of new lines at spoga+gafa including their new Pico pressure washer which should prove an extra sales opportunity for garden centres.

Weber also chose spoga+gafa for their World launch for 2017.  Unfortunately they were keeping it all under wraps and wouldn't let any trade press take photos ofthe new models.  Jay Bunker from Alton Garden Centre, winner of GTN's Greatest BBQ Sales Team Award told us after the VIP only evening event  "they have completly changed the Genesis and Spirit ranges, with new colours, new specifications and new price points."  I guess we will have to wait until Glee next week to see for ourselves.
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