In This Issue
Boyd's 100km in a day and AMES Amble add to the Garden Re-Leaf Day FUNdraising for Greenfingers
Inside Outside... A New Beginning for the garden market - Read GTN's March Issue on-line now
Gardeners ready to spring into action
GIMA Digest Spring 2021 Edition - Online now
Pershore School Horticultural Unit, Pershore High School, Worcestershire has unwanted visitors.
Plant sales now 32% up on last year
Appetite for gardens and gardening remains strong despite a cold February according to March HTA Market Update
Positive start to March for garden centre sales
More events confirmed for Garden Re-Leaf Day 2021
Reaction to Welsh garden centres being allowed to reopen
Mothers and daughters unite to 'Brave the Shave' for Greenfingers
LifestyleGarden parent company wins sustainability award
Join the virtual Garden Re-Leaf Quiz
British Garden Centres announce 58th centre, in Harrogate, will open in April
Keukenhof not permitted to open on 20 March
The big NHS seed giveaway
What Lies Ahead for 2021? - GTN's February Issue On-Line Now
Christmas Future Trends at Glee's Festive Focus Day
Altons BBQ World, Aylett Nurseries, Barton Grange, Baytree, Busy Bee, Groves, Pengelly, Pughs, The Old Railway Line and Squires Badshot Lea are the winners of GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
30% up after nine weeks for Growing Media volumes
Shed prices set to soar
Another record high for garden products
Christmas & Gift 2021 cancelled
Five weeks of increases for Wild Bird Care sales
The best of last week's
SOLEX 2021 CANCELLED
Turbo charged gardening as February breaks all records
The GIMA Awards are back!
Garden centre set to reopen in Northern Ireland
spoga+gafa 2021 is postponed to August
Scottish businesses and key personalities unite in call for garden centres to be re-opened
Heaven Sends welcomes buyers to showroom to view new Christmas Collection
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Barton Grange Christmas 2020 - Exclusive GTN Xtra Photo Tour
Squires Badshot Lea - Christmas 2020
Perrywood at Christmas 2020 - with correct photo gallery now...
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Buy your subscription to the GTN Bestsellers printed weekly newsletter
All the latest news from the world of pet products
Survey reveals staggering increase in pandemic pet ownership
IAMS launches new national brand campaign
Fast-growing pet care business acquires Town & Country Petfoods
Beco unveils packaging refresh to win over new generation of eco-conscious pet owners 
PATS Sandown is cancelled
GTN Bestsellers
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Boyd's 100km in a day and AMES Amble add to the Garden Re-Leaf Day FUNdraising for Greenfingers

Tomorrow (Friday 19th March 2021) marks the 10th anniversary of Garden Re-Leaf Day and is set to be a day full of fabulous FUNdraising activities including a 24hr challenge for Garden Re-Leaf founder Boyd Douglas-Davies...

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Inside Outside... A New Beginning for the garden market - Read GTN's March Issue on-line now

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.

 

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Gardeners ready to spring into action
GTN Xtra Promotion
 

Easter is fast approaching and for many people this symbolises a change in weather and the start of the long-awaited gardening season. To help maximise sales, this is an ideal opportunity to up-sell products to those new gardeners who invested in watering products for the first time last year. Offering a wide range of watering accessories, such as the Hozelock Multi Spray Pro, is a good way to demonstrate how users can get the most out of their existing Hozelock products...

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GIMA Digest Spring 2021 Edition - Online now

The GIMA New Product Digest, Spring 2021, a valuable source of reference for the UK Garden Trade, is Live on-line now with new products for the UK Garden Trade for 2021 from GIMA Members: Azpects, Boughton Loam, Campingaz, Capi Europe, Charles Bentley, Deco-Pak, Dizmezs, DJ Turfcare, EKJU, Elho, Forest Garden, Gardena, Growth Technology, GTS (Globus), Handy Distribution, Henry Bell, Hozelock, Hygeia, Jonart, Lava-Lite, Marriages, Onduline, Patio Black Spot, Plantworks, Potting Shed Press - GTN, Primeur, Sorbus, SBM, Southern Trident, Teal International, Vitavia & Woodlodge...

 

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Pershore School Horticultural Unit, Pershore High School, Worcestershire has unwanted visitors.

As pupils returned to school this week under the governments ‘Roadmap’, Pershore High School in Worcestershire has also seen some unwanted visitors arrive...

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Plant sales now 32% up on last year

After being over 50% down year on year four weeks ago, the GTN Bestsellers All Plant sales index now sites at UP 32% year to date vs last year and UP 45% on 2018 sales to the end of week 9...

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Appetite for gardens and gardening remains strong despite a cold February according to March HTA Market Update

The Horticultural Trades Association’s Market Update report for March shows nationally sales of garden/gardening categories were 69% up in February 2021 compared to the same month of last year, helping to mitigate the impacts of closed catering outlets...

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Positive start to March for garden centre sales

Gardening and plant sales continued at unprecedented levels during the first week of March, according to garden centre Epos data analysed by GTN Bestsellers...

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More events confirmed for Garden Re-Leaf Day 2021

With Garden Re-Leaf Day approaching ever quicker, teams and businesses from across the garden retail sector and beyond are busy making plans for the forthcoming Garden Re-Leaf Day on March 19th. With the event turning 10 this year teams are going BIG with their FUNdraising activities...

 

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Reaction to Welsh garden centres being allowed to reopen

The First Minister for Wales has announced that garden centres can reopen from March 22, and the industry has been reacting to the news...

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Mothers and daughters unite to 'Brave the Shave' for Greenfingers
 

Millbrook’s founder, Sue Allen, and Managing Director, Tammy Woodhouse – Sue’s daughter, have bravely volunteered to have their heads shaved in a bid to raise £10,000 for Greenfingers Charity, who build magical gardens for children’s hospices. Joining them in their hair-erasing challenge are another mother and daughter team, Jo and Danielle Nichols, who both work at Millbrook Garden Centre, Gravesend...

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LifestyleGarden parent company wins sustainability award

The team at the ScanCom’s premium outdoor furniture brand, LifestyleGarden has reason to celebrate as the company has scooped the highly coveted Sedex Award for the Best Environmental Sustainability Programme...

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Join the virtual Garden Re-Leaf Quiz
Hosted by Anne-Marie Powell and sponsored by Evergreen Garden Care
 

Still not sure what to do for Garden Re-Leaf Day next week (Friday 19th March), and worry you might have left it too late? Worry not, as Greenfingers is pleased to confirm that it will be launching its first ever virtual Garden Re-Leaf Day Quiz, hosted by the ever gorgeous Greenfingers patron, Anne-Marie Powell, and sponsored by Evergreen Garden Care...

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British Garden Centres announce 58th centre, in Harrogate, will open in April

British Garden Centres arrive in Harrogate with their 58th garden centre, due to open in April, and are looking to fill 40 new jobs...

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All the latest news from the world of pet products

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Survey reveals staggering increase in pandemic pet ownership

New research by the Pet Food Manufacturers’ Association reveals that a staggering 3.2m households in the UK have acquired a pet since the start of the covid-19 pandemic...

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IAMS launches new national brand campaign

To coincide with National Pet Day on the 11th of April 2021, IAMS is investing in a three-month brand campaign spanning TV, radio, digital and print media. The campaign aims remind pet owners that IAMS’ exceptional nutrition containing high quality animal protein provides pets with the fuel they need to thrive...

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Fast-growing pet care business acquires Town & Country Petfoods

 Assisi Pet Care Ltd, the company behind Hollings, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of natural dog treats, has acquired family-owned Town & Country Petfoods Ltd, for an undisclosed sum

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Beco unveils packaging refresh to win over new generation of eco-conscious pet owners 

 

With pet ownership surging throughout the pandemic, Beco, the UK’s most sustainable pet brand, is winning over both new and existing customers with a major packaging refresh...

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PATS Sandown is cancelled

This year’s PATS Sandown, the UK’s Spring pet industry exhibition due to take place on 11th-12th May 2021, has been cancelled following the PM’s announcement that indoor events won’t be allowed until 17th May...

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Keukenhof not permitted to open on 20 March

In recent months Keukenhof has prepared everything to be able to open the famous spring park. Keukenhof has been in talks with various government bodies for quite some time and is convinced the park can be safely opened to visitors. The Netherlands are still however under lockdown as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and Keukenhof’s 2021 set up was modified to this end...

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The big NHS seed giveaway

Mole Valley Farmers partner with Suttons to give away free seeds to all NHS workers..

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What Lies Ahead for 2021? - GTN's February Issue On-Line Now

In this issue:

 

Patio Black Spot – the Winning Formula

Weathering the Perfect Storm – Brexit and all that

New line up for LOFA Council    

Contemporary style from Firmans

Primeur – the one to watch for 2021

Get Set for Garden Re-Leaf Day 2021

Why Meadow View are Re-fuelling sales  

Cultivation Street’s 9th year

How will the Lockdown Gap be filled? – GTN Bestsellers Analysis

GTN Bestsellers Top 100 Garden Products of 2020           

Last chance to see the Woodlodge Snowlodge 

HTA Column – Perfect Opportunity for Plant Sales

 

 

Read GTN's February 2021 Issue on-line here
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Christmas Future Trends at Glee's Festive Focus Day

 

Take a look at Christmas future with forecasters, Trend Bible as they dive into the emerging trends that will define Christmas 2021...

Watch the Christmas Trends session here
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Altons BBQ World, Aylett Nurseries, Barton Grange, Baytree, Busy Bee, Groves, Pengelly, Pughs, The Old Railway Line and Squires Badshot Lea are the winners of GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards

 

The winners of GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards 2020 have been announced LIVE! on-line during Glee's Festive Focus Day today. 

 

And the winners are...  

Watch the LIVE announcement and see all the results here
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