Barton Grange regained the GCA Destination Garden Centre of the Year award and Fron Goch took the accolade for GCA Garden Centre of the Year at the GCA Annual Conference in Bristol tonight...

This years GCA Greenfingers challenge raised a massive £12,000 for the Greenfingers Charity...

Sir Tim Smit, founder of the Eden Project in Cornwall, has urged garden centres to see the environment crisis as a massive opportunity to make a difference to people's lives. "You should see yourselves as being at the pointy end of a new revolution," he told the GCA Conference in Bristol today (Tuesday)...

A special themed party night at the Garden Centre Association conference saw delegates dressed in all types of fancy dress. The winners of the Best Fancy Dress Award were King Canute & The Jellyfish (pictured above).

Garden centre staff across the country are celebrating after receiving awards at the Garden Centre Association’s annual conference in Bristol yesterday (Monday). They included Ruxley Rose winners Cowells Garden Centre (GC) above and Perrywood Tiptree (DGC) below.

The most recent addition to the AMES UK Director team is Matt Wilson who joined the business in September. Matt is responsible for Finance and HR and comes with a wealth of relevant experience in privately owned business and large corporations...

The Klondyke Group Limited have just announced the acquisition of Garden Wise Plant and Garden Centre in Dumfries from Alistair and Gillian Bertram who will retire...

The Garden Centre Association has announced Phil McCann and Mark Taylor will be joining its team of inspectors. The pair will be responsible for inspecting member garden centres in South Thames with Phil inspecting those in the Garden Centre category and Mark checking members in the Destination Garden Centre category.

Three weeks into 2020 and so far every week has been up on the previous 3 years for volume sales according to the GTN Bestsellers EPOS data analysis...

Mike Burks will take over as Garden Centre Association (GCA) Chairman for 2020/21 at the start of the organisation’s annual conference tomorrow, January 27, 2020...

The ten finalists from the Westland GCA Rising Stars programme 2019 are making presentations at the GCA Conference tomorrow...

Westland has announced a £500,000 radio advertising and press campaign for its Peckish wild bird care brand.

Sue Allen was confirmed as chairman of the Greenfingers Charity at its last week, when a new-look board was also introduced. Tributes were paid to outgoing chairman John Ashley...

As part of the next phase of the industry-driven recyclable plant pot campaign, the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) is to urge local authorities to collect recyclable plant pots in their kerbside collections...

Gardening broadcaster  David Domoney has been appointed brand ambassador for Evergreen Garden Care...

Hillier is to return to the central Monument site in the Grand Pavilion at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show as it attempts to win a 75th consecutive Gold Medal with its “greatest ever” exhibit...

Wyevale Nurseries has installed a new bespoke enterprise resource planning system fine-tuned to the needs of horticulture...

Festive shoppers at a Tong Garden Centre near Bradford raised almost £2,500 for two local Salvation Army groups as they were entertained by brass bands in the run up to Christmas...