Four Oaks has announced the death of owner Richard Harding age 77. He passed away peacefully at home...

Colin Squire shares his thoughts on the sad passing of Peter Seabrook...

RocketGro continues to grow out its presence in the UK market. Agreeing to supply all 22 Klondyke stores with five of their eight growing media product range as of the end of January to start the season...

During the last 12 months, GIMA has welcomed 40 new full and five associate members to its roster, representative of 11% net growth...

The combined, market-leading lawncare offering from natural gardening pioneer Neudorff and DLF Seeds, parent company of Johnsons Lawn Seed, is poised to help retailers to maximise potential in lawncare categories this season...

Hartman continues to invest in people in a quest to provide unrivalled support to its customers, maintain its growth and deliver across the business, throughout the forthcoming demanding season and beyond. The most senior appointment at Hartman is Head of Sales – David Cotgrave...

Plant sales in the GTN Bestsellers EPOS data for the second week of 2022 were up by 47% on week 2 of 2019...

Thompson & Morgan is pleased to introduce its top 10 new varieties for 2022 – the cream of the crop, showcasing the best new varieties and sensational introductions from T&M’s breeding programme. New introductions include a dramatic dark leaved Cactus  Dahlia and a Weigela with the wow factor,

A new garden centre and coffee shop opened near Lincoln on Saturday (January 22). Cherry Tree Garden Centre and Coffee Shop is located at a former café on the A158 at Sudbrooke, which closed in 2020...

Spring Fair, the UK's most diverse, vibrant, and exciting wholesale marketplace for home, gift, and fashion, taking place from 6th-9th February 2022 at NEC Birmingham, has announced the Inspiring Retail Stage content programme, including the appearance of TV personality Billie Faiers...

The team at Tong Garden Centre in West Yorkshire has invested significantly to treble the area of the kitchen that prepares dishes for its in house restaurants.

Four major new RHS Community Gardens will be created in each of the Home Nations, thanks to an RHS Community Grant launched this week...

Happy New Year to you all.  We hope you all had a good and safe festive period and are now looking forward to an exciting 2022.

Since New Year the GTN gnomes have been beavering away to compile the Top 100 stories read in GTN Xtra last year as our review of 2021.

During 2021 we published in excess of 2,500 stories in GTN Xtra which was opened 390,397 times by 34,334 unique readers who viewed 856,595 pages.  Added to that are the pages of GTN magazines published through the year which have been read on line almost 33,000 times (you can catch up with any you may have missed using the links on the bottom right hand side of this GTN Xtra edition) as well as the many thousands of readers of the printed copies.

We've thoroughly enjoyed bringing you all the news, views and ideas during 2021 and we hope you found them useful and informative.  Here's to an even greater 2022!