In This Issue
Highgate Garden Centre set to close within a fortnight
Not a flaming June – but best for 5 years
Bents launch The Great Plant Experiment
Pots of Garden Lighting sales as summer kicks in
Sevenoaks GC wins six-year battle over advertising signs
Floralsilk open new "must see" showroom
Solex starts at the NEC on Monday
Get your Garden Re-Leaf Day monies in now!
Waitrose move ahead with garden centre plans
Aylett and Simpsons share Garden Re-Leaf ‘Westland Challenge’ prize worth £6,000
Cultivation Street entries flooding in
Barton Grange founder at opening of world's first nursery park
First clue in GCA 'guess the venue' comp
Veg seed packs are back in demand
Still time to book for GIMA Awards dinner
T&M employees clock up 165 years
Volumes of growing media still show encouraging signs
Mr Fothergill's appoints head of direct marketing
GCA members have a 'big debate' over peat
Dig these Solus deals for Autumn
Floramedia appoints an Image Library Supervisor
Slug Gone lands British Wool logo
Lechuza self-watering pots launch in the UK
GTN Bestsellers - garden centre sales data every week
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
 

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Highgate Garden Centre set to close within a fortnight


Highgate Garden Centre in North London is holding a closing down sale next Friday and will cease trading once all the stock is sold...
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Not a flaming June – but best for 5 years


The weather has hardly made it a flaming June but at least it was drier than last year and garden centre sales have continued up year on year following the trend started in May. The GTN Bestsellers All Products Epos Sales index regsitered the highest June volume for the past 5 years, an increase of 27% on June 2012...
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Bents launch The Great Plant Experiment


Bents have launched an experiment to find out if plants respond to the way their spoken to by gardeners...
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Pots of Garden Lighting sales as summer kicks in
 
Garden lighting products are the star performers in this week’s GTN Bestsellers Garden Products chart with pots from Yorkshire Flowerpots and Woodlodge selling in high numbers too...
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Sevenoaks GC wins six-year battle over advertising signs


The owners of Sevenoaks Garden Centre in Leicestershire have won a six-year fight over roadside advertising signs...
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Floralsilk open new "must see" showroom


Floralsilk have opened their new 6,000 sq ft showroom.  Easily accessible from the A1, just north of Stamford, it is now possible to see the complete Floralsilk range in a light and airy showroom which is fully merchandised and colour themed...
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Solex starts at the NEC on Monday
Read the SOLEX SUN Issue 1 2013 here
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Get your Garden Re-Leaf Day monies in now!
Garden Releaf spades of money
How much did we, as an industry raise for Greenfingers on Garden Re-Leaf Day 2013?  All will be revealed at the GIMA's...
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Waitrose move ahead with garden centre plans


A plan to develop a £14m Waitrose store at Notcutts Garden Centre in Bagshot has been lodged with the local Surrey borough council...
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Aylett and Simpsons share Garden Re-Leaf ‘Westland Challenge’ prize worth £6,000


This year’s ‘Westland Challenge’ competition offered by Westland Horticulture to find the garden centre that best optimised Garden Re-Leaf Day 2013, has been won jointly by Aylett Nurseries and Simpsons Garden Centre...
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Cultivation Street entries flooding in


Community volunteers who revitalised a disused pond into a valuable environmental asset have been nominated in a nationwide competition as Cultivation Street heroes...
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Barton Grange founder at opening of world's first nursery park
Pioneering retailer Eddie Topping of Barton Grange Garden Centre was among a UK group attending the opening of the world’s first ‘nursery park’ in Tuscany last week...

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