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Briers team joins Smart Garden Products
Smart Garden Products is delighted to confirm that the following staff have joined Smart from Briers...
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After Red Nose Day it's time to Go Green for Garden Re-Leaf Day
 
After Red Nose Day for Comic Relief it's time to go Green for Garden Re-Leaf Day and the Greenfingers Charity on Friday 22nd March...
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Pruning made simple with GARDENA’s new range of loppers
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As we prepare to say hello Spring, at GARDENA we’re also preparing to prune. Late Winter or Spring pruning will help ensure your plants send out new shoots from their food reserves and encourage new growth, making sure your garden looks bloomin’ lovely...
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Looking forward to Mother's Day and Garden Re-Leaf
The weather was partly to blame for the drop in overall sales last week but a bigger influence was the moving of Mother's Day, says GTN Bestsellers...
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Mezu Silk Flowers – Cultivating A Business
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“After 25 years of working in PR in the City, I desired a change,” says Donna Zurcher, founder of Mezu Silk Flowers. Passionate about flowers and wanting to enjoy their natural colour and beauty throughout the year she established Mezu Silk Flowers so that she could personally source – and subsequently supply - silk flowers that are some of the most realistic that can be found in the marketplace today...
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Dobbies director to address GIMA Day Conference in April
 Three themes have been set for Next month’s GIMA AGM and Day Conference (10 April, Ettington Chase, Warwickshire) - Dobbies, Disruption and Megatrends...
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Taylor Made Designs will make your staff look & feel great
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Taylor Made Designs have over 20 years experience of making staff look and feel great. With Mother's Day coinciding with the start of Brtitish Summer time there's no better time to give your team a professional look. So get smart and contact Taylor Made Designs now...
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Garden product suppliers hear export case studies
Leading figures from the UK garden and leisure industries were among the delegates and speakers at the conference on The Future for International Trade, held in Stratford upon Avon on Tuesday 12 March. The event was organised by leading trade associations, Gardenex, PetQuip and BHETA...
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Charity shop and garden centre takings slump to £3 because of road closure
A Harrogate charity shop and garden centre saw its takings plummet to just £3 last Monday because of roadworks outside...
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Horticulture to benefit from DCF’s investment in students
The horticultural industry can look forward to welcoming more bright students to the trade with the backing of the David Colegrave Foundation (DCF) through its scholarships.
Scholarships worth £13,000 have been awarded to 10 students with interests that include research, sustainability, crop management, breeding, horticultural therapy and commercial wholesale...
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New app will match up buyers and sellers at Glee
Glee will introduce an app this summer designed to help suppliers and retailers get the most out of their time at the show...
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Young veg plants rush through the tills
It’s difficult to make comparisons with the same week last year for plant sales as although we were in the grip of the Beast form the East, Sunday 11th March 2018 was Mother's Day and we have to wait until the end of March this year for that effect....
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Application to redevelop Squires Garden Centre, Windsor, withdrawn
An application to redevelop the Squires Garden Centre site in Windsor has been withdrawn withdrawn. Plans to build 39 homes at the site were due to be heard at the Windsor Urban Development Management Panel...
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Wild Bird Care down by 25%
Even though the weather was wet, windy and colder than we saw in February it wasn’t cold or severe enough to generate high levels of Wild Bird Care sales...
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Aldi wins approval to build on Malmesbury Garden Centre site
Both Aldi and Lidl had submitted planning applications to build stores on the site of the Malmesbury Garden Centre off the A429, which were determined by Wiltshire Council's Northern Area Planning Board...
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Growing activity up on both 2018 amd 2017
Last week saw a big drop in growing media sales from the first week of March but sales were still up by 26% on the same week last year...
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GIMA Awards entry now open
Entries for this year’s GIMA Awards, which returns for its 39th year this summer (4 July, Celtic Manor), are now open.
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Propagation lights up garden product sales
Garden Product sales fared well considering the footfall drop caused by the wet and windy weather and Mother's Day moving to the end of the month. Garden Lighting and propagation lines featured in many shopping baskets...
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Blooming Marvellous! £37K boost for national garden tourism group
Scotland’s garden tourism industry is set to bloom further as £37,000 funding has been awarded to national garden tourism group, Discover Scottish Gardens, to build on its success...
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Bumper week for young Veg Plants
After the warmer than usual February, young Veg plants have already arrived in centres and they are being snapped up as soon as they go on sale...
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Kingston Landscape Group Ltd takes home the Supreme Winner title at the APL Awards 2019
The annual awards ceremony, sponsored by Bradstone, took place on Friday 15 March at The Brewery, London, to celebrate and recognise the outstanding landscaping carried out by members of the APL...
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Buyers from Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands, Lithuania and Dubai seek new garden and pet products at event
The latest in the highly successful ‘Meet the International Buyers’ events organised by the Gardenex and PetQuip associations will take place at the Federation’s head office in Brasted, Kent on Wednesday 27 March 2019...
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The best of last week's
If you missed last week's GTN Xtra, below are the most-read stories...
Shaw Trust buy two centres from Hillview
Shaw Trust has purchased two Midlands garden centres from the Hillview Group...
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Jane Lawler joins GCA’s team of inspectors
Jane Lawler has joined the GCA’s team of inspectors. Jane, who has more than 35 years’ experience in marketing and business development, will be responsible for inspecting member garden centres in North Thames, Scotland and Northern Ireland...
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Plant buyers in positive mood at Classiflora
Garden centre plant buyers were out in force and in positive mood at the Classiflora Open Days....
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Plant sales lead the way – up 456% compared to last year
Plant sales led the way as garden centres experienced huge swings for the first week of March compared to last year. Remember the snow from The Beast from the East saw GTN Bestsellers recording the worst ever weekly sales for garden centres this time last year...
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Blue Diamond celebrated their annual awards last night at Chateau Impney in the West Midlands with Fermoys and Le Friquet winning the Acorn and Oak Cups for Blue Diamond Garden Centres of the Year. Trelawney and Redfields won the Blue Diamond Restaurant of the Year Awards and Managing Director Alan Roper was presented with a special award to recognise his 20 years at Blue Diamond...
Jon Knight, chief executive of the Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group, and Mos Shamel (right), CEO of Las Iguanas, are among the first big name Keynote speakers to be confirmed for Commercial Kitchen – the UK’s leading kitchen equipment, services and design show, taking place on 4-5 June at the NEC Birmingham.
