24 hour Plantathons for Garden Re-Leaf Day have got underway at Squires Bashot Lea (above), Hillview Studley Garden Store (below) and Alton Garden Centre in Essex (bottom) ...
GTN's Trevor Pfeiffer is within reach of making his weight loss target of 14:04 by Garden Re-Leaf Day on March 18th and raise money for Greenfingers, but it's going to be close...
East Durham Garden Centre – formerly Plants R Ross – in Easington, Co. Durham, has been acquired by British Garden Centres, which now has a total of 10 stores in its portfolio...
Participating garden centres are being encouraged to garner maximum exposure for the industry’s main fundraising day in the mainstream media by capturing high resolution, print quality images...
Tea and coffee equipment and product supplier Café Works is offering garden centres without cafés the chance to be involved in the charity Greenfingers’ Garden Re-leaf Day...
The former Crowders Garden Centre has been given a new name following voting by 2,000 members of the local community. It will be now called Wolds View, a Wyevale Garden Centre...
The designs for The Sun Flower Square, the industry garden led by Peter Seabrook have been unveiled. The floral exhibit in the Grand Pavilion features four model garden displays, each 4m x 4m square, the same size as the average front garden in Britain and based on the successful gardening campaign ‘Love the Plot You’ve Got’.
Somerset folk are being encouraged to help raise money for the children’s charity Greenfingers by entering a Garden Re-Leaf Day raffle this month at Monkton Elm Garden & Pet Centre...
Volumes for the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products chart are down on the previous week and they are also lagging behind the same period for the past two years (-4.1% in 2015 and -27.4% in 2014). The bright spot is garden lighting with several products making their mark...
Veg-2-Gro sales are down on the same week of the previous two years (-6.3% 2015 and -27.4% 2014) but there is a glimmer of hope with volumes being nearly 6% higher than the previous week...
The fortunes of growing media sales saw a change on the previous week, being down by nearly 29%. But they were still ahead of the same week in the past two years, and organic products had a particularly good sales week...
The marketing team at Kent & Stowe, who are well known for their innovative approach to creating new retail sales opportunities, have developed a programme to help garden centres increase consumer spend on Lawncare through linked promotions and displays...
Mike Burks, managing director of The Gardens Group, planted a tree in Woodlands Crescent as a gift to local residents during Poundbury Gardens’ 10-year anniversary celebrations...
Pictures from The Greatest Christmas Gold-winning Teams
Garden centre teams excelled with their Christmas displays in 2015. Click on any of the gold-winning teams (below) to see a gallery of pictures from each centre. The galleries are sponsored by Kaemingk...
