More popular than ever, the Iglu360 is the must have for the latest contemporary look to upgrade your garden centre restaurant...

Scotmid Co-operative and Caulders Garden Centres have partnered to launch a pop-up, “Caulders at Scotmid” at the convenience retailer’s Uddingston store, to provide the area with a range of gardening supplies until the end of June...

GTN Bestsellers analysis from last week shows that for the first Easter week of 2021 total volume sales dropped by 1.4% week on week but as centres were only open for six days rather than seven that equates to being about 12% up like for like...

Dobbies has announced the launch of its first-ever ‘Not Your Average Gardener’ awards to find the UK’s best and most dedicated gardeners...

Following the shout out for help through our pages after the break in at the horticultural unit at Pershore High School, our great industry, even at such a busy time of year and so up against it with all the supply difficulties this season is bringing, have pulled out all the stops and helped get the horticultural unit up and running again in the last couple of weeks...

Plant sales last week continued at record high levels for the time of year, even exceeding normal levels expected for the May Bank Holiday week...

The Royal Horticultural Society and BBC One’s The One Show are joining forces again to launch My Chelsea Garden, a competition encouraging amateur gardeners across the nation to share images of their green spaces and growing efforts in search of the very best. ..

March has seen lots of suppliers go that extra mile for Garden Re-Leaf Day but one, Deco-Pak, has quietly being making March a marathon month for this annual FUNdraising event – together tackling over 700miles and elevations which would have taken them to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro and beyond...

The Horticultural Trades Association’s Market Update report for April shows that nationally garden centre sales were up 97% in March compared with March 2020 when there were nine days fewer trading time due to the closure of garden centres during the first lockdown...

Squire’s Garden Centres has reported a drop of 42% in underlying profits to £2.2m but said it was a “very good result” given the events of 2020.

Longacres have issued the following statement following the fire yesterday at their Shepperton Garden Centre...

Nicholas Marshall is making a return to Garden Centre retailing at Lavershot Barns, Windlesham, Surrey...

Louise Harris jumps for joy after visiting Cardwell Garden Centre when it re-opened after lockdown on Monday (April 5). The 38-year-old keen gardener, from Inverkip was one of the first customers at the garden centre, near Gourock when Cardwell welcomed visitors for the first time this year.

More than eight in 10 adults have taken up a new hobby during lockdown to boost their mental or physical health, with walking, reading, exercising and gardening the most popular pastimes....

Before Bents Garden & Home can fully welcome Solving Kids Cancer as its 2021 charity of the year, it must say a huge thank you to everyone who has helped raise £16,477 for Once Upon a Smile; the charity it has supported for the past two years, during what has been one of the most challenging times for everyone...

Many people find enjoyment relaxing in their own green space or getting their hands dirty transforming their garden, and these activities are great for positively impacting health...

Desch Plantpak presents the latest edition of Colour Your Story. The number one colourful inspiration magazine where you can find, among other things, the latest trends, innovations, developments in the field of sustainability, and an interview with Dr Joachim Christiani, Managing Director of Cyclos HTP...

Inside Outside... a New Beginning. How the 5th room is changing the garden centre retailing market in the March 2021 issue of GTN.  Read on-line here.

• Next Generation to lead the way at GCA, interview with Tammy Woodhouse and Will Blake.
• Inside Outside… A New Beginning for the garden market.
• Empowering Change for a brighter future, LOFA team up with Planet Mark.
• HTA Column, Tales of the unexpected.
• GIMA Column, Somewhere over the rainbow, a ‘New Normal’ exists.