GTN Xtra - GTN Xtra Issue 59 2015

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Whitehall, Perrywood, Gouldings, Chessington and Norfolk Leisure strike gold in Cologne
GTN's Greatest Outdoor Living Retailing Awards presented at spoga+gafa 2015

Garden Trade News and spoga+gafa took a selection of Gold winners in this year's Greatest Outdoor Living Awards to Cologne to present their awards at the impressive show last weekend. Garden centres Whitehall, Perrywood, Gouldings and Chessington all celebrated success along with Norfolk Leisure who clinched the Supplier Gold...

spoga+gafa proves to be a hot success with visitors

Temperatures soared in Cologne as garden retailers and buyers from around the globe converged on a highly successful spoga+gafa last weekend. GTN Xtra was there to bring you these exclusive pictures from the outdoor living event GTN Xtra was there to bring you these exclusive pictures from the outdoor living event including tours of the EFSA Concept Store, Elho, Edelman, all the British exhibitors in the Gardenex area of Hall 9 plus many many more...

see GTN Xtra's pictures from spoga+gafa

Cupar Garden Centre is put up for sale

Cupar Garden Centre in Fife, Scotland, has been put up for sale because the owner has been suffering from ill health and now wishes to retire. The sale is being handled by Quinton Edwards...

New variety of Osteospermum called Little Writtle

Writtle College has bred a beautiful new variety of hardy Osteospermum and called it Little Writtle. The plant, with distinctive deep pink flowers, is now available to buy on major plant mail order website Suttons Seeds.

How hot is that chilli in the window (oof, oof)...?

Thompson & Morgan has given all its chilli pepper varieties a heat rating by means of an easy-to-read 'chilli meter' on 2016 seed packs...

New exhibitors look forward to an exciting AQUA 2015 show

AQUA 2015, the UK’s premier water gardening and aquatics trade event, will welcome a host of new exhibitors to October’s showpiece exhibition, which will be bigger than ever before...

All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering

Monkton Elm's new restaurant supports Somerset suppliers

Diners at the Elm Tree Restaurant at Monkton Elm Garden & Pet Centre in Somerset will be helping to support suppliers from the county...

More 'Love the Plot' masterclasses to run through autumn

Following the success of the Love the Plot You’ve Got Spring Masterclasses and Roadshow, more are being planned for the autumn...

HTA Futures is the venue for The Greatest Garden Centre Team Awards 2015

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Poplars, Groves and Barton Grange have all won Gold in The Greatest Awards. Which garden centres will be leaving the HTA Futures Conference with Gold this year?

Nominate your Garden Centre Teams here

Get all the Glee News in the Glee Daily News

There will be more preview issues of The Glee Daily News this year, plus three "Live" from the show issues...

Click here for link to Glee Daily News 2015 Issues 1 & 2

GTN September 2015

Garden Trade News

Entries pour in for Glee New Products Showcase
Deadline for entries closed on Friday 4th September

The Glee New Products Showcase is building to be the biggest for years as entries from exhibitors pour in...

Wyevale showcases Amenity/Landscape stand at Four Oaks

Wyevale Nurseries in Hereford is this month taking its first Amenity/Landscape focused stand to the Four Oaks Trade Show...

Celebrate Conifers with National Conifer Week

Such is its popularity across the nation, the conifer has been attributed its own week as well as being the Horticultural Trades Association’s Plant of the Month for October...

Bounty Hunters hit Wakehurst for a ‘Botanical’ adventure

Wakehurst Place, home to the largest seed bank in the world, have announced the line-up of their exciting NEW ‘Bountiful Botanics’ Festival in September...

Richard Carr joins Fiskars as commercial director

Richard Carr joined Fiskars this week as commercial director of the UK business...

Shorter days see lantern sales light up

Gardman products are this week’s top performers...and as the days get shorter, its all about lighting once again...

Greens make healthy gains at the top

Winter green are creating plenty of activity in the upper reaches of the chart this week, with Sweetheart cabbage plants from Quantil gaining the top spot, while spring cabbage, kale and Chinese broccoli all show good gains in the Top 12...

Bulb media get going but MP and JI are the movers

With the spring bulbs planting season about to get going, Taylors bulb fibre and Westland’s Bulb Planting Compost are selling well, but two Westland composts make the biggest impact in the GTN Bestsellers chart...

AIPH approves horticultural world exhibition in Almere, The Netherlands

The International Association of Horticultural Producers has finalised agreements with the city of Almere and the ‘Nederlandse Tuinbouwraad’ for the A1 horticultural world exhibition Floriade Amsterdam Almere 2022...

Garden Press Event space selling fast say organisers

Organisers of the Garden Press Event 2016 (Thursday 18 February, Barbican Exhibition Hall, London) say space is selling faster than ever this year...

Container Centralen to offer mobile exchange depot at South West Growers Show

The organisers of one of the UK’s top commercial horticultural exhibitions have announced that Container Centralen will be running the mobile trolley exchange service at this year’s South West Growers Show, which takes place on Wednesday 7th October at The Matford Centre in Exeter, Devon...

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