Even though the wet weather of last week and the weekend deterred many from outside gardening activities, Christmas and indoor gardening had a great week which meant overall garden centre sales volumes, according to the GTN Bestellers All Epos Products index was up by 3% year on year and stays up 3% year to date.

A bumper week for Christmas puts our GTN Bestsellers Top 50 Christmas products index at 8.3% up year on year after the first three weeks of the garden centre Christmas season...

The importance of storytelling and the need to be authentic in your social conversations were just two of the key points made at the HTA Marketing Forum which took place at Horticulture House, Chilton, on Wednesday...

Gardeners are now more likely to use the latest technology to source plants for their plots before they visit their nearest garden centre but also when they are in-store too...

This season has been an exciting time for Tom Chambers with sales continuing to grow throughout every part of their bird care range. On the back of such a successful year, the launch of the 2020 collection has plenty of new innovative products, helping to build on this success...

Rebecca Pow MP, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Environment, will address the garden industry at the Cultivating Retail conference on 19 November at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham...

Christmas at Bents has been kept strictly under wraps for the past ten weeks, but on Wednesday the wait was over and this year’s themed displays were unveiled...

As the demand for specialist products continues to thrive, Vitax will add to its key brands for 2020 as customers look for specific solution-solving products...

With concern escalating over the amount of time that children spend staring at phone and computer screens, Deco-Pak is leading the way in helping retailers to provide innovative solutions that encourage kids to engage in fun pursuits that reconnect with the natural world...

The Royal Horticultural Society has announced its endorsement of the entire range of Plankbridge shepherd’s huts – multi-purpose living spaces based closely on the proportions of original Victorian shepherd's huts...

The superlatives flowed thick and fast after the two-day AQUA 2019, and among the words being used to describe the event were ‘excellent’, ‘innovative’ and ‘fantastic’...