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'Audience with Milly Johnson’ event raises £850 for Tong GC's charity of the year
Tong Garden Centre's ‘Audience with' award-winning author Milly Johnson raised more than £850 for its charity of the year, Bradford Stories, which works with the National Literacy Trust to promote reading, writing, speaking and listening.

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Santa's on his way...on a bus, carriage, classic car... and a fire engine
Leaving his sleigh behind until Christmas Eve, Santa plans to arrive at Squire’s centres next month on a vintage bus, a horse-drawn carriage, an American classic car – and even a fire engine...

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Promote the wellbeing benefits of autumn gardening

While the gardening year reaches its spectacular finale, there is still plenty to entice customers into the garden through autumn...
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Spare a thought for the bats this Hallowe'en

As a corporate supporter of the Bat Conservation Trust, online supplier CJ Wildlife is working with the charity to raise awareness of these beautiful nocturnal mammals that are so well documented at this time of year...
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Glee’s owners rebrand as Hyve
Owners of Glee, the UK’s leading garden retail exhibition, ITE Group plc has announced a name change and new brand identity which will mark a new chapter of business growth and development for the UK’s leading annual garden trade event, as well as the newly launched Pawexpo exhibition, which will present a fresh look at pet retailing...
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GIMA confirms two Knowledge Exchange Workshops for its autumn schedule
6th & 21st November, Horticulture House, Didcot, OX11 0RN
This autumn, GIMA’s Knowledge Exchange programme will be bolstered with two new one-day workshops, this time focusing on optimising key social media channels such as LinkedIn and Instagram to grow your business, as well as looking at ways to advance existing Microsoft PowerPoint skills. Places are filling up fast, so interested parties – both GIMA members and non-members – are invited to secure their place now to avoid disappointment...
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Garden products see September growth for first time in six years
After five years of continual decline for Garden Product sales in September it’s great to report an upturn this year...
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Squire's stage 'plantathon' for World Mental Health Day this week
Squire’s Garden Centres will be holding a ‘plantathonon' World Mental Health Day (this Thursday, 10 October) to help raise awareness of mental health issues...
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Wet weather hits plant sales
The wet weather set plant sales back again last week and as a result September volumes were down on 2018 and 2017 levels, by ahead of our recorded sales for September 2016...
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Chief plant officer to update nurserymen on plant health programme
The UK's chief plant health officer is to address growers on plant health at the HTA's January Contact Conference....
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Growing media sales suffer in the rain
The high rainfall of the past few weeks has put paid to a lot of gardening activity and that has shown through for growing media sales...
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Pooh tells the story of Christmas
Our first week of reporting Christmas sales shows a drop from the first week of the past two years but higher volumes than the equivalent week in 2014, 2015 and 2016...
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Foundation with £100k scholarship heritage urges colleges to get on board
The David Colegrave Foundation, which has awarded almost £100,000 through scholarships, trip bursaries and other educational initiatives in the past 10 years, is urging colleges to get more students to apply...
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The best of last week's
If you missed last week's GTN Xtra, below are the most-read stories...
September heading for a record high
GTN Bestsellers Analysis
September garden centre sales are set to hit record levels this year if we have a good last week of the month. After three weeks the GTN Bestsellers All Products Index is 7% up on last year and the best first three weeks of September since 2014...
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Dobbies now offer a free plastic pot and tray return service
Dobbies Garden Centres have introduced a new free plastic plant pot and tray return service...
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Perrywood celebrates its first birthday at Sudbury
Perrywood have been celebrating their first anniversary at the Sudbury centre they acquired from Wyevale garden Centres last year...
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Blue Diamond donate £6,000 to the Rose Society
The Blue Diamond Group of Garden Centres has donated £6,000 to the Rose Society at this year’s Malvern Autumn Show...
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New Horticulture Manager for HTA
HTA grower member support has been boosted by the appointment of botanist and broadcaster Pippa Greenwood as HTA Horticulture Manager...
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Garden Centre Photo Tours
If you've missed one of our popular photo tours of garden centres then click on the links below:
Garden Centre Photo Tour - RHS Wisley New Plant Centre
Read the full interview with Damien Powell in the August issue of GTN out this week
RHS Retail Director, Damian Powell, took GTN's Trevor Pfeiffer on a guided tour of the new plant centre and retail areas at RHS Wisley last month...
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