The Leisure and Outdoor Furniture Association has announced that Gina Hinde is the new LOFA Marketing Manager and is now in post...

According to GTN Bestsellers, the first week where snow caused significant disruption in certain parts of the country took overall garden centre sales to the lowest level of the year so far. That was nowhere near as bad as the “Beast from the East” week of March last year or the snow of January 2013...

The Pot Company is offering its customers a range of striking Chinese vases for those seeking an entirely one-off feature for an outdoor space...

Leading gardening tools and equipment supplier E.P. Barrus has expanded its warehouse capacity in 2019 to meet continued demand following a successful 2018...

Vitavia Garden Products Ltd is the British partner of the Vitavia Group, which is the leading name throughout Europe for quality hobby greenhouses and greenhouse accessories...

Business was booming at the second annual Glee at Spring Fair, with upbeat exhibitors reporting strong levels of orders and new leads at a key point in the spring sales season...

Creative Products scooped this year’s top prize with Fly Away. The judges remarked upon Fly Away’s ability to tap into the al fresco dining trend, and how it will also appeal to the millennial market with its insect friendly credentials...

Leading supplier of natural and organic garden products, Sipcam, is urging garden retailers to stock up on its environmentally-friendly slug controls, to ensure stores can meet demand when the government’s ban on metaldehyde slug pellets comes into force this summer...

Doff Portland Ltd has announced the launch of its new and exciting organic slug killer based on the active ingredient Ferric Phosphate. This comes less than a month after DEFRA announced that the chemical Metaldehyde would be banned for use in slug control and will be phased out over the next 18 months...

Members of the Garden Centre Association are being encouraged to put forward their employees for the organisation’s two Rising Stars programmes taking place throughout 2019...

Catering Rising Stars winner Louise Spinks (above) received her award at last month's GCA conference.

It was revealed at a public planning meeting this week that the Charnley’s family, which owns Charnley’s Home & Garden in Dalton-in-Furness in Cumbria, has finally been granted planning permission for its extension, following more than two years of living under the threat of demolition...

Family run Dean’s Garden Centre, based in York and Scarborough, has raised the life-changing amount of £29,903.70 for Macmillan Cancer Support...

Spring is in the air, and there’s no better time to start planning and planting colourful displays to enjoy over the months ahead. This March the HTA is encouraging retailers to share this news with their customers with help from the HTA’s ‘Gardening is Good for You!’ campaign, supported by National Garden Gift Vouchers.

Customers at 11 Notcutts Garden Centres nationwide have helped to raise over £5,000 for The Royal British Legion during a fundraising campaign in November 2018. The total was raised using Pennies, the digital charity box: the micro-donation scheme where customers have the option of rounding up their purchase at the till with the difference going to charity...

Squire’s Garden Centres is holding a “Bottle Garden” masterclass for adults on Friday 15th March at 10am or 2pm.

GROEN-Direkt’s Spring Fair is widely seen as the international kickoff of the garden plant sector’s new gardening season. This large trade fair is an important indicator of the sector’s market sentiment. The 2019 edition of the fair took place on February 5-6...