In This Issue
Garden centres survive wettest ever January with record sales
Learn e-tail secrets from the High Street's big guns
Lanterns and torches brighten mid-winter gloom
A flying start waiting to happen...?
GIMA promote careers talk on horticulture
John Innes retains a grip on growing media
Dutch and Brits meet to discuss 'working together'
'Good bugs' could hold key to cabbage root fly problem
Squire's Santas raise £18k for charity
GCA 2014 conference hits all the right notes
A quick look-back at GCA conference as Barton Grange Preston is named Destination Garden Centre of the Year
Cowell's picks up the coveted Garden Centre of the Year Award
£9,600 raised as Pansies beat Cabbages in 4th Annual Greenfingers Challenge Cup
Pippa to speak on grow-your-own at The Edible Garden Show
Carol Paris reveals how HTA and GCA are working together to promote gardening
Out-going GCA chairman takes up new role at Trelawney Garden Leisure
Boyd adds 6 centres to Hillview
Work to start on Probus Garden Centre in March
Jude Law, David Tennant and other stars present the Garden Re-Leaf Day quiz for 2014
More pictures of Garden Centre Christmas displays than have ever been published before
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Garden centres survive wettest ever January with record sales
Garden centre sales volumes hit a record high in the GTN Bestsellers charts for the first four weeks of the year –  during what weather experts say was the wettest January ever...
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Learn e-tail secrets from the High Street's big guns
Visitors to next month’s Retail Business Technology Expo at Earls Court can learn about internet retailing from some of the biggest guns on the High Street...
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Lanterns and torches brighten mid-winter gloom
 
As Chinese New Year approached, Chinese Solar Party Lanterns brightened up the January sales picture...
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A flying start waiting to happen...?






Increasing tomato seed sales are a sure sign that keen gardeners are already chomping at the bit...
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GIMA promote careers talk on horticulture
 

GIMA director Neil Gow has written to 100 businesses in Worcestershire and surrounding counties to promote a talk by James Wong at Pershore College...
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John Innes retains a grip on growing media
Composts with a John Innes element occupied 13 of this week's Top 50 in the GTN Bestsellers Growing Media chart...
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Dutch and Brits meet to discuss 'working together'
Leading horticultural and government organisations from the UK and the Netherlands met this week to discuss new ways of working together...
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'Good bugs' could hold key to cabbage root fly problem
Trials are under way to prove that the best way to control cabbage root fly, the most common brassica pest, is to improve soil quality...
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Squire's Santas raise £18k for charity
Squire’s Garden Centres have handed over cheques to local charities totalling over £18,500 – thanks to ‘free’ visits to Santa’s Grotto...
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GCA 2014 conference hits all the right notes


THE Garden Centre Association’s annual conference has this week been declared a huge success. “The event was not only inspiring, but it was also thought provoking," said Will Armitage (above right), who took over the chairman's chain of office from Peter Burks...
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A quick look-back at GCA conference as Barton Grange Preston is named Destination Garden Centre of the Year


Barton Grange Preston picked up another award on the final evening at the GCA Conference in Blackpool when they won the prestigious Destination Garden Centre of the Year...
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Cowell's picks up the coveted Garden Centre of the Year Award
 
Cowell's Garden Centre at Woolsington, Newcastle upon Tyne, capped a fine GCA Conference in Blackpool by picking up the coveted Garden Centre of the Year Award...
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£9,600 raised as Pansies beat Cabbages in 4th Annual Greenfingers Challenge Cup
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A staggering £9,600 was raised on the eve of the Garden Centre Association Winter Conference at Blackpool when a team of garden centres (Pansies) beat a side made up of suppliers (Cabbages) in the 4th Annual Greenfingers Challenge Cup.
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