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New display ideas, new products, new suppliers at Bunnings first UK garden centre - GTN Xtra picture exclusive
Dobbies reports best Christmas trading for five years
Flowering plants and veg lines buck the trend
Resolva Liquid Shots back on TV
Wyevale Nurseries tree sales up by 22%
Diarmuid Gavin is new brand ambassador for Vivagreen
Plant pot manufacturer Hum celebrates export success
Hygge trend driving customer trends in the garden
HTA Study Tour celebrates and learns in Holland
More Greatest Christmas Award winners...
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Garden Centre General Manager (Dorset)
Plant Buyer (Essex)
Plantarea Department Head Seasonal Plants (Essex)
Wholesale Senior Plantsman (Kent)
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Baby Bio to rejuvenate the houseplant sector
New UK-bred pot petunia gives a thundering performance
Christmas orchids drive repeat sales
Onion sets and shallots boost Veg-2-Gro sales
Farmyard manure sales beat the February blues
Plants brighten sales...even on grey days
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Garden Centre Manager
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Garden Centre General Manager (Dorset)
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Salary: Excellent
 
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Wholesale Senior Plantsman (Kent)
Salary: £27,000 - £30,000
 
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New UK-bred pot petunia gives a thundering performance
Looking for a robust, easy-to-grow Pot Petunia with abundant colour? Then Ball Colegrave's latest new innovation may be just what you are looking for – the Ovation series of  petunias will triumph in both nursery and the garden.

Bred in the UK, Ovation has been specifically developed to provide growers with an effortless Pot Petunia for premium colour sales in 13cm pots or larger.

In the garden centre, these plants are packed with high colour appeal and give an outstanding shelf presentation. In the garden, Ovation delivers a performance to die for with its neat, mound-forming habit in patio containers all Summer long.

  • Excellent 13cm pot presentation for high impulse colour sales
  • Naturally compact and cold tolerant
  • Early season colour – flowers initiated in short days
  • Also ideal for late season colour under high temperatures - stays compact and flowers fast
  • Strong garden performance – mound forming habit
  • deal for patio containers
  • Pot to flower in as little as 7 weeks
  • Available in 6 distinct rich colours as a Ball 84 plug, weeks 8-20
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