Every week GTN receives and analyses epos data from a number of UK garden centres to produce the GTN Bestsellers charts...

The immediate future of glyphosate weedkillers is likely to be decided at an EU Commission committee meeting next Thursday (9 November)...

The Fast Grow Fertiliser company, a leading Irish supplier of seaweed fertiliser, is expanding into the UK, targeting an eventual 250 stockists...

While overall plant sales volumes for half term week were down by 4%, sales of the top six plant genera – Cyclamen, Pansies, Erysimum, Viola and Primula – were all up and accounted for 57% of all plants sold...

Fertiliser specialist ICL is to join the HTA Nursery Supply Show in 2018 as headline partner, with the aim of promoting learning and development...

Booming sales of Angels, Snowmen and Christmas Chocolates (even chocolate sprouts!) during half term week pushed the GTN Christmas Products Top 50 up 54% on the previous week but couldn’t beat the half term sales from last year, ending down 12%...

The Garden Centre Association has launched its 2017 Worrall Cup marketing competition, which is now open for entries...

Pictured: Mike Burks, MD of The Gardens Group, who won the Worrall Cup last year.

Winter preparations took centre stage in the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products Top 50 last week as the first frosts prompted a surge in fleece and pot feet sales. Gardman Frostgard sales volumes jumped by 145% and four lines of pot feet featured in the Top 50, increasing pot feet sales by almost 200%.

Stonework manufacturer Haddonstone has introduced two new collections of stylish planters – the Box and Heritage ranges – made from lightweight TecLite material...

Although there was a small uplift in growing media sales volumes during half term week, overall growing activity, as measured by growing media sales, was down by 17% year-on-year for October at the lowest level since 2014...

A member of staff at Wyevale Nurseries is growing a moustache in aid of a hospice in Hereford...

Earlier this week Oracle in Redwood Shores California announced that Wyevale Garden Centres have invested in the Oracle Retail Stores suite of solutions...

The early trading performance of the first eight Bunnings Warehouse pilots is encouraging, with solid sales uplifts achieved across the pilot group, reports owners Wesfarmers but First Quarter trading in the UK is down by £44m...

Squire’s are celebrating after being awarded the title of ‘Best Garden Centre’ at the Express Home and Living Awards 2017...

The long-term future of domestic weedkillers containing glyphosate is back on a knife-edge following the decision by the EU Commission to defer voting on a proposed re-approval of the chemical, just weeks before the current licence runs out...

"Pied piper, plant enthusiast, retail doyen. Whichever label you chose for Nicholas the UK Garden Centre industry is certainly more colourful with Nicholas back on the scene."  Read GTN's interview with Nicholas Marshall in the November 2017 issue...