Carol Paris reveals how HTA and GCA are working together to promote gardening
HTA chief executive Carol Paris told GCA delegates about the Garden Industry Marketing Board, a cross industry initiative to promote gardening and encourage visits to garden centres.
Carol outlined the promotional calendar for 2014, containing events aimed at boosting public interest in gardening.
These included:
The Real Poppy Campaign
Cultivation Street
Home Ground – a proposed lifestyle magazines to be sold in garden centres
It Starts With a Pot campaign
Carol urged delegates to get involved in any one or all of the initiatives as the more successful the campaign become, the more people would visit garden centres.