In This Issue
A right royal boost for sales at garden centres
Who are the best buyers in the garden market?
Meadow View Stone – New Garston site provides additional 60,000 tonnes of prepacked product/annum
Treadstone’s innovative Pot Trellis is turning heads
Would your garden centre benefit from selling greenhouses?
Harmony Gardens brand goes from strength to strength
A Chelsea tribute to Peter Seabrook MBE
Traditional bedding plants see biggest increases
Influential judging panel for 2022 GIMA Awards
Jenny Douthwaite of Primeur elected GIMA President
Cancer research group raises over £900 with planting demos
Fiskars creates bee-friendly garden to mark World Bee Day
Empathy launches new RHS endorsed bird feed range
Haws sets up stall at RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Experience a new chapter for AMES UK at Glee 2022
Mr Fothergill’s new seed introductions for 2023 season
Shaping a New Future at Coolings, New Products, Easter GTN Bestsellers and more in GTN's March/April issue on-line here
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Alan Down appointed as HTA Vice-President
Royal garden decoration
29% more veg grown than in 2019
Sundaville celebrates 20th anniversary
4% down but still ahead of last year
Pick and mix boost for Wild Bird care
The best of last week's
Blue Diamond reports £39.5m profits as turnover grows to £255m
Thank goodness for gardening
Mixed-use garden centre in Lichfield hits the market
Frosts in discussion with Notcutts about prospective sale of Brampton garden centre
A closer look at Meadow View Stone – The award-winning supplier for 2021
Dobbies granted planning permission for new Reading store
Garden accessories with that clever clip!
The horticultural industry’s tribute to Peter Seabrook – ‘In haste’
Hozelock's Watering Wisdom campaign
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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A right royal boost for sales at garden centres
Exclusive GTN Bestsellers garden centre Epos data analysis

As we near the Jubilee Bank Holiday, garden centres saw boost in sales of Jubilee related products. Union Jack garden windmills topped the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products chart, Royal Hydrangeas and bedding packs sold in high volumes, with napkins, bunting, tea towels, breakfast tea and shortbread also among the garden centre Jubilee bestsellers...

See the GTN Bestsellers Jubilee Top Ten
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Who are the best buyers in the garden market?
Nominations are now open for the 2022 Glee Buyers Power List Awards, the winners will be celebrated at Glee in June

When the industry gets together at the NEC in June this year Glee will once again be celebrating the best buyers of garden, leisure and pet products in the Glee Buyers Power List...

Make your Buyers Power List nominations here
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Meadow View Stone – New Garston site provides additional 60,000 tonnes of prepacked product/annum
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The first of three phases of works at Garston Docks, Liverpool, has recently been completed to increase Meadow View Stone's washing and prepack production by 60,000 tonnes/annum...

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Treadstone’s innovative Pot Trellis is turning heads
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Treadstone Products, who are known for innovative gardening brands, have achieved a promising sales performance this year for their award-winning Pot Trellis from the Good Life gardening range. This has resulted in hundreds of garden retailers selling the product in 2022, with solid repeat orders occurring every week...

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Would your garden centre benefit from selling greenhouses?
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Vitavia shares its expertise on selling greenhouses in the garden retail setting...

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Harmony Gardens brand goes from strength to strength
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Southern Trident’s Harmony Gardens brand of growing media products was launched at Glee last year to glowing acclaim – Harmony Gardens Multipurpose Compost won the Best New Growing Media Product and the Glee Sustainability Award. Since then, it has been much loved by stockists and consumers alike.

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A Chelsea tribute to Peter Seabrook MBE
 

 

 

Chelsea Flower Show 2022 would have been the 70th year Peter Seabrook was involved in creating a display at the world’s most prestigious flower show...

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Traditional bedding plants see biggest increases
 

All plant sales, by volume, in the GTN Bestsellers Epos data for the second week of May were up by 24% on last year and 12% higher than in 2019...

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Influential judging panel for 2022 GIMA Awards

GIMA, who are urging suppliers to enter the 2022 GIMA Awards before the June 1 deadline, have revealed that all entries will be judged by a panel of leading industry experts on July 13 at Warwick Racecourse...

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Jenny Douthwaite of Primeur elected GIMA President
 

 

 

GIMA has announced the election of Jenny Douthwaite of Primeur as GIMA President, supported by Kate Ebbens of Capi Europe as Vice President following its AGM held virtually on Friday (May 20)...

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Cancer research group raises over £900 with planting demos

The plants team at Tong Garden Centre, Bradford, helped a Leeds breast cancer research group to raise over £900 recently...

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Fiskars creates bee-friendly garden to mark World Bee Day

Fiskars teamed up with several green fingered influencers to support the vital bee population as part of its Urban Gardening project...

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Empathy launches new RHS endorsed bird feed range

Natural gardening brand Empathy is set to launch a new premium wild bird feed range, endorsed by the RHS.

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Haws sets up stall at RHS Chelsea Flower Show
 

Following its successful return to the world famous RHS Chelsea Flower Show last year after a 25-year absence, Haws will be back at the famous showground next week – this time with cans to sell...

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Experience a new chapter for AMES UK at Glee 2022

Think you know AMES UK, then get ready to think again as at this year’s Glee, (28th-30th June, NEC Birmingham, stand 6C40-F41), the outdoor living experts behind the leading Kelkay, La Hacienda and Apta brands are ready to showcase a whole new chapter for the company; a chapter that is designed to offer garden retailers more value than ever...

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Mr Fothergill’s new seed introductions for 2023 season
 

Mr Fothergill’s introduces 27 new varieties to their range offering for 2023...

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Shaping a New Future at Coolings, New Products, Easter GTN Bestsellers and more in GTN's March/April issue on-line here

In the March/April 2022 issue of GTN:

  • Shaping a new future at Coolings
  • Blue Diamond Awards
  • Garden Centres Aid for Ukraine
  • Primeur – Ready for 2022
  • Latest trends and products from the Garden Press Event
  • LOFA’s Plant a Tree Campaign
  • Greetings from Woodmansterne – GTN meets the suppliers
  • Easter Trading records broken – GTN Bestsellers Exclusive
  • GTN Bestsellers – Subscribe Now!
  • YPHA member opens Dor’s Garden in Ross On Wye
  • Glee 2022 Update
  • Garden Re-Leaf Day 2022
  • LOFA Column – Working Together
  • HTA Column – Reasons to be Cheerful
  • GIMA Column – Sourcing New Products
Read the issue on-line here
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