A number of prestigious awards were presented at the GCA conference at The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon yesterday (Monday)...

Webbs West Hagley won the Dick Allen Award for the Most Improved Garden Centre.

The Ruxley Rose awards were presented to Cowells Garden Centre (Garden Centre category) and Bents Home & Garden (Destination Centre) at the GCA Conference.

The GCA Conference 2018 got off to a flying start with more than £20,000 being raised for Greenfingers in the annual GCA Greenfingers Challenge...

Castle Gardens (pictured) and Bents Garden and Home picked up their awards as the national winners of the GCA’s annual Christmas competition.

Mike Lind from Monkton Elm, took up his position as the new GCA chairman as the annual conference began at The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon...

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...

Gardening sales have got off to a great start for 2018 and Alton Garden Centre's Derek Bunker wants to get a campaign started for us all to wish customers "Happy Spring!" from now until Easter...

Emma Blackmore from Bents, Samatha Davis from Haskins, Sarah Postlethwaite from Fron Goch, Andreea Robertson from Gardenwise and Jayne Scott from Klondyke Daleside are the five Westland GCA Rising Stars finalists preparing for their presentations at the GCA Conference in Stratford on Monday...

Plant sales flew out of garden centre planterias last week, with total sales doubling on the first week of the year. Sales of Primula, Narcissus and Hyacinths were up significantly compared to the same week last year...

Spring Fair is set to once again host a new range of products launched by UK leading wildlife product designer and manufacturer, Wildlife World...

The fantastic Christmas grottos at Squire’s Garden Centres have helped raise £21,380.30 for numerous local charities...

Wyevale Nurseries  has announced that its landscape/amenity sales were up 20% year-on-year from July 2017 to the end of December 2017.

A new membrane developed by global science and engineering firm DuPont, Plantex® Platinium, has been found to be successful in containing Japanese knotweed, following field trials carried out by Japanese knotweed removal specialists Environet...

Tiptree based Perrywood have presented cheques totalling a value of over £14,000 to its chosen charities at the garden centre: Mid and North Essex Mind, Marie Curie and Greenfingers...

Award-winning eco outfit Seedball has launched a new and exclusive Natural History Museum range, designed to encourage and sustain important garden wildlife in urban and rural environments...

A recent survey undertaken by GIMA has highlighted that its members continue to feel the pressure of ever fluctuating exchange rates. In response, the trade association is pleased to announce that it is launching a new Foreign Exchange service, in conjunction with payment solutions experts, Moneycorp...

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

The votes are being counted and the judges meeting to decide who will be the winners in GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards, sponsored by Gardman, ready for the announcement and presentation of awards at a special Greatest Awards Winners Breakfast Reception on Tuesday 6th February in Hall 3 as part of Glee@Spring Fair...