In This Issue
100% Business Rates Reliefs for Garden Centres Confirmed
Rising to the Challenge
Trading update from this weekend - UPDATED
The Royal Horticultural Society cancels upcoming RHS Shows & Garden Events following latest COVID-19 Advice
GIMA Day Conference and AGM postponed
Orangutan Books specialise in extremely high-quality bespoke gift books for your Christmas event
Gardenex to support UK firms in light of National Hardware Show postponement
To sell greenhouses or not? Let Vitavia help!
Blue Diamond Awards Shine Brightly
Haskins Snowhill re-opens after £15m re-vamp
Garden Re-Leaf Day 2020 is a FUNdraising success
GTN Bestsellers EPoS data analysis: It’s good news for gardening
Eco-friendly milk now on tap at Brimsmore farm shop
HTA welcomes Budget measures - but waits to see the detail
How pets can boost health, wellbeing and the value of the ‘Pet Pound
Tong Garden Centre honours its values champions
New Johnsons Lawn Seed mix solves problem of dog wee damage
On track to become the UK's most sustainable fire logs...
LOFA's 1629km charity drive to Monte Carlo aims to raise £3,500-plus
Seedball gets eye-catching display stand
Wyevale Nurseries wins licence to propagate new award-winner
GTN Bestsellers Garden Re-Leaf Subscription Offer
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Best week of the year so far for Primula
Call for stories for Greenfingers book
Shoots of growth for garden product sales
11,000 Mr Fothergill's Seeds Packets to Help Refugees in Kurdistan
Young strawberry plant sales on the rise
Upward trend for Wild Bird Care
Keukenhof will not open on March 21
Peat-free compost sales on the up
Christmas Grotto Gift Books
Rain kept shoppers away in February says BRC
DCF to fund plant health studentship
Still struggling with GDPR? Try this new book for 'dummies'
The best of last week's
Worcester centre extension project beats February weather
Work starts on £1.5m Fron Goch expansion after MSC planning win
Melcourt Bag for Life wins New Product Award
Garden Centre Photo Tours
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Buy your subscription to GTN Bestsellers
Spacious new restaurant opens in Woodbridge at Notcutts
Casual Dining show postponed until July
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100% Business Rates Reliefs for Garden Centres Confirmed

It was confirmed yesterday by the Minister for Housing, Communities & Local Government that Rates relief at 100% for the retail and leisure sectors will be applied to all Garden Centres...

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Rising to the Challenge

Garden centres across the country are rising to the challenges of Coronavirus, making sure their customers are safe and selling a lot of gardening products too...

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Trading update from this weekend - UPDATED

As garden centres trade through the first weekend after the move to the Delay Phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, GTN Xtra has been asking garden centre managers and owners how trading has been this weekend and about their thoughts for the coming weeks...

Read comments from Bents, Longacres, Planters, Dobbies, Blue Diamond, British Garden Centres, Stewarts, Bosworths, Fron Goch, Langlands, Poplars and Caulders
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The Royal Horticultural Society cancels upcoming RHS Shows & Garden Events following latest COVID-19 Advice
 

Following the Government update on 16 March 2020 and ongoing situation with COVID-19, all RHS Shows, Garden events and school visits will be cancelled with immediate effect until 30 June 2020.  RHS Gardens remain open, with a number of increased precautionary measures in place...

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GIMA Day Conference and AGM postponed

This week’s annual GIMA Day Conference and AGM has been postponed...

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Orangutan Books specialise in extremely high-quality bespoke gift books for your Christmas event
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If you are looking for that special gift for your Grotto, Orangutan Books (formally Hometown World) are the only publisher in the UK that specialise in producing extremely high-quality bespoke gift books for your Christmas event...

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Gardenex to support UK firms in light of National Hardware Show postponement

Gardenex has announced that it will update UK businesses scheduled to exhibit at the National Hardware Show on developments following the decision to postpone the international trade exhibition...

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To sell greenhouses or not? Let Vitavia help!
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To sell greenhouses or not? Vitavia appreciates this is the question that floats across lots of your minds when you’re thinking of filling a space within your garden centre.

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Blue Diamond Awards Shine Brightly

The Blue Diamond shone brightly at the Chateau Impney on Thursday last week as over 500 colleagues and guests celebrated Blue Diamonds' sucesss in 2019 and announced the winners of the Blue Diamond Awards...

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Haskins Snowhill re-opens after £15m re-vamp

Haskins Garden Centre in Snowhill, Crawley, has opened its doors to customers following a 12-month refurbishment costing £15m...

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Garden Re-Leaf Day 2020 is a FUNdraising success

Over 100 walkers and cyclists took part in the Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day Charity Walk and Cycle Ride in Chilton, Oxfordshire on Friday 13th March 2020, one of many events across the country...

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GTN Bestsellers EPoS data analysis: It’s good news for gardening

Great news for gardening:  when the weather improves people get active in their gardens and in spite of Coronavirus fears they seem happy to visit garden centres...

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Eco-friendly milk now on tap at Brimsmore farm shop

The Apple Tree Farm Shop at Brimsmore Gardens in Yeovil has installed a milk station that dispenses semi-skimmed milk from Trewithen Dairy in Cornwall...

 

 

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HTA welcomes Budget measures - but waits to see the detail

The HTA has welcomed chancellor Rishi Sunak’s measures to help small businesses cope with the impact of coronavirus – but director of policy and communications James Clark said “the devil will be in the detail”...

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How pets can boost health, wellbeing and the value of the ‘Pet Pound

The new Pawexpo trade show this autumn will tap into the UK's growing enthusiasm for pet ownership - a lucrative market for suppliers and retailers... 

 

 

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Tong Garden Centre honours its values champions

Tong Garden Centre celebrated last year’s success at its first ever awards evening at a Leeds hotel...

 

 

 

 

 

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Spacious new restaurant opens in Woodbridge at Notcutts

A bright and spacious new restaurant has opened its doors at Notcutts Woodbridge Garden Centre after a complete refurbishment project which began last summer...

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Casual Dining show postponed until July

Following increasing concern about the developing coronavirus situation, Casual Dining organiser Diversified Communications UK has consulted with the industry and decided to postpone the ExCeL London event until July...

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New Johnsons Lawn Seed mix solves problem of dog wee damage

Johnsons Lwn Seed has launched an ultra-tough mix that resists the age-old problem of damage from dog urine...

 

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On track to become the UK's most sustainable fire logs...

Launched in January, Kindwood may become known as the UK’s most sustainable wood fuel brand...

 

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LOFA's 1629km charity drive to Monte Carlo aims to raise £3,500-plus

A team of LOFA drivers will be among those heading for Monte Carlo in a £500 banger this summer to raise money for Greenfingers Charity...

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Seedball gets eye-catching display stand

 

 

Award- winning Seedball has introduced a free eye-catching display stand for garden retailers...

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Wyevale Nurseries wins licence to propagate new award-winner

Wyevale Nurseries has been granted the propagation licence for an award-winning foliage plant...

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GTN Bestsellers Garden Re-Leaf Subscription Offer
 

As we approach trading times that are uncertain now is a good time to access information that could help with managing sales and expectations during what could be a slow Spring.

 

Over the coming weeks we’ll be keeping GTN Bestsellers subscribers as informed as possible about what sold when during March, April and May of 2018 and 2013, when we also had slow starts to the season.

 

Take out a subscription this week and we'll donate money to Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day too...

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