Sinclair's acquisition by Westland avoided a second trail of devastation within 12 months for the garden industry – and may prove to be a truly new horizon for a key business in the supply chain...
Sales volumes for July were the best for a number of years, according to the GTN Bestsellers All Products Index. Data for the last week of July sent sales totals up 8% on July 2015, making it the best garden centre summer for several years...
The Garden Industry Marketing Board took it's Love the Plot You've Got campaign to CarFest North at the end of July and the display of small garden ideas at the family festival created a real stir, even attracting THE DIG to come and feel the love...
Glee’s ‘Green Heart’ will be a showcase for more than 60 growers at next month’s show. Event director Matthew Mein offers 10 reasons why retailers should make a beeline for it…
Five gold winners of The Greatest Outdoor Living Sales Awards will have the added prize of receiving their prizes at this year's spoga+gafa exhibition in Cologne, Germany. One person from each of the five winners will be treated to travel to and from Cologne plus one night's accommodation, coutesy of spoga+gafa, as The Greatest Awards really celebrate going on tour this year.
The UK overall has experienced a consistently cooler trend compared to last year, says a leading weather analyst - and it has had a clear impact on retail sales...
Independent plant breeders’ agent Plants For Europe has entered two plants from its client portfolio in the new plant competition at this month’s Plantarium trade show (Boskoop, Netherlands, from 26 August)...
Poplars, Groves and Barton Grange have all won Gold in The Greatest Awards. Which garden centres will be leaving the HTA Futures Conference with Gold this year?
Wasps lead the attack on garden bugs this week. All those glass wasp traps you’ve been displaying so creatively this year have suddenly come into their own as wasps become public enemy number one in the UK’s gardens...
The promise of freshly dug spuds and crisp home cut greens for the Christmas celebrations are continuing to drive sales of grow your own products, with summer salads and herbs (Rosemary Miss Jessops is the highest new entry) also seeing week on week sales increases...
Core growing activity continues to drive Growing Media product sales up year on year. Sales for the last week of July were 3.4% up on last year and 15% up on 2013. At this time of year houseplant composts, including cactus composts, become more impoortant in the sales mix...
