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Frosts’ Brampton becomes Notcutts 19th centre
Old Railway Line and Pugh’s Garden Village take top honours in GCA Wales & West region
Growing, showing and trialing. News from Glee and Solex plus flower and peat free trials in GTN's August 2022 issue, read on-line here
Two new members for Choice Marketing
GIMA Awards judging complete – find out who wins on October 20th
Three mountains in 24hrs – Deco-Pak completes its Greenfingers challenge!
Four Oaks Trade Show announces inaugural ‘Pat Coutts award for excellence’, to be sponsored by HTA
Scarlet Opus return to GIMA to launch SS2024 Trends & Insights Report
Embrace beauty of nature with elho’s green basics range
Bramblecrest return to Solex with new culinary offering
Tong launches adventure play area for older children
Deco-Pak offering expands to meet needs of garden retailers
New from Primeur: Mower Edge Borders and Full Pallet displays join the 2023 line-up
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Colegrave Seabrook Foundation announces two new Trustees
HTA President's video message about the 2030 and beyond Conference
Catering industry experts give insights during GCA members’ webinar
Promoting flower and plant exports to Polish retail channel
The best of last week's
Tong Garden Centre group acquires further centres 
Perrywood Tiptree and Perrywood Sudbury claim top GCA North Thames honours
GCA Midlands top awards go to Pacific Nurseries and Fairways
Dobbies and Waitrose partnership launches in Edinburgh
Technological advances in DIY pest control
Bestselling Bloomin Amazing invests in new technology
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Frosts’ Brampton becomes Notcutts 19th centre

Notcutts have completed the acquisition of Frosts’ Brampton garden centre near Huntingdon. Brampton becomes the latest garden centre to join the family-owned garden centre group. Notcutts now have 19 UK garden centres together with a flourishing e-commerce operation...

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Old Railway Line and Pugh’s Garden Village take top honours in GCA Wales & West region

The Old Railway Line Garden Centre (above) was awarded the title of Garden Centre of the Year in the Destination Garden Centre (DGC) category  at the GCA Wales & West region and Pugh’s Garden Village, Wenvoe (below) received the accolade in the Garden Centre (GC) category...

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Growing, showing and trialing. News from Glee and Solex plus flower and peat free trials in GTN's August 2022 issue, read on-line here

Inside the August 2022 issue of GTN:

  • Primeur’s Recycled Revolution
  • Farm shop revolution in St Albans
  • Growing and retailing plants together at Ball Colegrave
  • Glee Review: Buyers Power List results, GIMA Seed Corn Fund winner, Winning New Products at Glee, Floral Thursday for Greenfingers breaks records at Glee
  • Zest are winners at Glee and Solex
  • The future of eco firepits – El Fuego
  • Mrs A’s Peat Free trials at Aylett Nurseries
  • Outdoor trends in the spotlight at Solex
  • GIMA Golf Day 2022
  • GCA Regional Awards 2022
  • LOFA Column – Thank you for making Solex a success
  • HTA Column – 2030 Here we come…
  • GIMA Column – 2022 Abnormal or normal?
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Two new members for Choice Marketing

Choice Marketing has announced the addition of two new garden centres to the Group – Waresley Park of Sandy in Bedfordshire and Pacific Nurseries of Walsall, West Midlands. This brings the total number of centres within Choice Marketing to 45 and a group retail turnover in excess of £160m...

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GIMA Awards judging complete – find out who wins on October 20th

Following another incredible year of inspirational new product development, the 200 plus entries to the 2022 GIMA Awards provided this year’s judging panel with plenty of food for thought. Now, with the judging day complete, we must wait until October 20th to find out who will be crowned winners this year...

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Three mountains in 24hrs – Deco-Pak completes its Greenfingers challenge!

Wind, rain, blisters and UK holiday traffic all attempted to thwart Deco-Pak’s Three Peaks Challenge this past weekend (23-24 July) but the team were victorious in their efforts. Now it’s time for you to dig deep to help the team reach their fundraising target to help Greenfingers to create even more therapeutic garden spaces at children’s hospices across the country...

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Four Oaks Trade Show announces inaugural ‘Pat Coutts award for excellence’, to be sponsored by HTA
 

 

Four Oaks Trade Show has announced a new award to honour the memory of the late Pat Coutts, who founded and drove the show’s success over five decades...

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Scarlet Opus return to GIMA to launch SS2024 Trends & Insights Report
 

GIMA has again commissioned leading trend agency, Scarlet Opus, to deliver an informative and interactive Insight & Trends report, designed to offer delegates unrivalled access to SS24 trend information, including how these trends meet consumer desires, attitudes and aesthetics...

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Embrace beauty of nature with elho’s green basics range

A green space filled with fresh blooms, homegrown herbs and budding plants creates the perfect oasis to relax and unwind. In spaces like these, it’s easy to find the beauty in nature, and with elho’s affordable green basics range of pots and bowls, gardens, patios and balconies can be transformed into stunning spaces that let natures’ beauty speak for itself...

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Bramblecrest return to Solex with new culinary offering
 

The first in-person Solex for three years saw a busy time for the Bramblecrest team. With over 60 sets of furniture on their stand, the sales team had plenty to show existing and potential new stockists over the three-day period...

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Tong launches adventure play area for older children

A Bradford Garden Centre group has introduced a brand-new adventure play experience aimed at older children as part of its ongoing vision to be a destination for families across Yorkshire...

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Deco-Pak offering expands to meet needs of garden retailers
 

Over the last decade Deco-Pak has cemented its position in the marketplace as the ‘home of decorative aggregates’. But do you truly know just how expansive the Deco-Pak offering really is? Find out more...

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New from Primeur: Mower Edge Borders and Full Pallet displays join the 2023 line-up

Primeur is fresh from an excellent showcase at Glee 2022, where the company enjoyed a fantastic reception to its new launches which joined the company’s existing multi-award-winning recycled rubber garden ranges...

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