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Anxious times for suppliers and retailers waiting for more news of Scotts-Solus deal
Kelkay launches £1.5 million Borderstone stock sale
Garden centre product sales show signs of growth
Husband-and-wife actors become joint patrons of Greenfingers
£2,000 raised for the Rosy Cheeks Appeal at successful Europlants Open Days
Water features offer linked sales opportunities from Deco-Pak
Mr Fothergill's goes greener as solar panels cut energy costs
Gardman develops premium wild bird care brand
Huntingdon G&L staff fear restructure of centre will result in job losses
Town & Country wellies rated alongside Hunter and Chameau
Pansies and violas are the HTA’s Plant of the Month for March
NGGV poppy seed giveaway and limited edition voucher
Cultivating business solutions together – Classiflora-Zelari 2014 Open Days
John Athwal joins the charity "CEO Sleepout"
Top 50 garden product sales on a par with past two years
Garden King Newhall to benefit from Bradley closure
Veg-2-Gro sales still lagging behind last year
Weekend dedicated to the world of chillies
Growing media flies through the tills
Holland and tulips are the theme of Keukenhof
New technology helps garden centres make and save money
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There's still time to have Jude Law, David Tennant and other stars presenting the Garden Re-Leaf Day quiz for 2014 in your garden centre
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There's still time to have Jude Law, David Tennant and other stars presenting the Garden Re-Leaf Day quiz for 2014 in your garden centre

Hollywood star Jude Law and Dr Who actor David Tennant have joined the growing list of household-name celebrities to support Garden Re-Leaf Day’s popular Gardening Quiz, by recording a round of questions.  The brain-teasing audio quiz is available as a customer event opportunity to any garden centre taking part in the annual fund-raising day in March.

The two stars join Skyfall’s ‘Miss Moneypenny’, actress Naomie Harris – currently on cinema screens as Winnie Mandela in Long Walk to Freedom – in presenting a section of the questions.  EastEnders cast members Danny Dyer (new Queen Vic landlord Mick Carter) and Patsy Palmer (fiery market trader Bianca Butcher) have also lent their familiar voices to the quiz, in addition to a round recorded by impressionist Alistair McGowan – in the vocal style of celebrities John Humphrys, David Mitchell, Matt Baker, Dara Ó Briain and Stephen Fry.



David Tennant, Naomie Harris and Alistair McGowan have agreed to support Garden Re-Leaf Day’s popular Gardening Quiz.

The quiz – which includes both general knowledge and gardening rounds – can be ordered by all retailers, suppliers and other organisations participating in Garden Re-Leaf Day; with funds raised going towards its chosen charity, Greenfingers. The production of the quiz and accompanying CDs are being provided by Garden Radio, as part of its support for Garden Re-Leaf Day.

The quiz is also a ready-made opportunity to boost customer footfall, as Garden Re-Leaf Day’s founder and Hillview Garden Centre CEO Boyd Douglas-Davies explains: “We’re enormously grateful that so many mainstream stars have supported this year’s Garden Re-Leaf Day quiz – it will be more popular than ever!  It’s a simple way for retailers both to take part in Garden Re-Leaf, and attract scores of customers in-store at the start of the spring gardening season.  You can make the event even more effective by running other sales promotions, refreshments and fund-raisers alongside. The organiser’s pack costs just £100 and is available by calling 01993 871456 or emailing pat@gca.org.uk

Garden centres and suppliers across the UK are expected to take part in the third annual Garden Re-Leaf Day, held on Friday 14 March 2014 and across the weekend. Participants – who can run any number of nationally-coordinated or local fund-raising initiatives – are being urged to register their involvement as soon as possible by emailing the organising team at info@gardenreleaf.co.uk with an overview of your planned activities.  Your location and events will then be added to the Garden Re-Leaf Day website: www.gardenreleaf.co.uk.

As in its first two years, Garden Re-Leaf Day’s nominated charity in 2014 is Greenfingers; the nationwide charity dedicated to building gardens in children’s hospices around the UK. Since 2012 Garden Re-Leaf Day participants have raised more than £116,000 for the cause; enabling several life-enhancing hospice gardens to be created.

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