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Iglu 360 is the perfect outdoor dining experience for garden centres
GTN Xtra Promotion
More popular than ever, the Iglu360 is the must have for the latest contemporary look to upgrade your garden centre restaurant...
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Partnership blooms as 'Caulders at Scotmid' springs up
Scotmid Co-operative and Caulders Garden Centres have partnered to launch a pop-up, “Caulders at Scotmid” at the convenience retailer’s Uddingston store, to provide the area with a range of gardening supplies until the end of June...
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Easter sales records, reports GTN Bestsellers
GTN Bestsellers analysis from last week shows that for the first Easter week of 2021 total volume sales dropped by 1.4% week on week but as centres were only open for six days rather than seven that equates to being about 12% up like for like...
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Dobbies announces ‘Not Your Average Gardener’ awards
Dobbies has announced the launch of its first-ever ‘Not Your Average Gardener’ awards to find the UK’s best and most dedicated gardeners...
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Industry help gets horti education unit back up and running
Following the shout out for help through our pages after the break in at the horticultural unit at Pershore High School, our great industry, even at such a busy time of year and so up against it with all the supply difficulties this season is bringing, have pulled out all the stops and helped get the horticultural unit up and running again in the last couple of weeks...
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If plants are in stock they are selling
Plant sales last week continued at record high levels for the time of year, even exceeding normal levels expected for the May Bank Holiday week...
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RHS and BBC launch ‘grow and show’ competition
The Royal Horticultural Society and BBC One’s The One Show are joining forces again to launch My Chelsea Garden, a competition encouraging amateur gardeners across the nation to share images of their green spaces and growing efforts in search of the very best. ..
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Deco-Pak marathon Mar-CHING for Garden Re-Leaf Day
March has seen lots of suppliers go that extra mile for Garden Re-Leaf Day but one, Deco-Pak, has quietly being making March a marathon month for this annual FUNdraising event – together tackling over 700miles and elevations which would have taken them to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro and beyond...
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New rules allowing socialising in gardens deliver strong boost to garden centre sales
The Horticultural Trades Association’s Market Update report for April shows that nationally garden centre sales were up 97% in March compared with March 2020 when there were nine days fewer trading time due to the closure of garden centres during the first lockdown...
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Squire’s financial results encouraging despite challenges
Squire’s Garden Centres has reported a drop of 42% in underlying profits to £2.2m but said it was a “very good result” given the events of 2020.
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Large Fire at Longacres Shepperton - UPDATED
Longacres have issued the following statement following the fire yesterday at their Shepperton Garden Centre...
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Nicholas Marshall returns... again
Nicholas Marshall is making a return to Garden Centre retailing at Lavershot Barns, Windlesham, Surrey...
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All the latest news from the world of pet products
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Vital to launch educational Pet Club
Vital Pet Group is launching Vital Pet Club this month. The aim of the club is to become a destination for pet lovers, providing education about care and key brands available in the specialist sector...
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Dog theft increases by 19% during lockdown
New research from Direct Line Pet Insurance reveals that reports of dog theft increased by a fifth in 2020. Last year, an estimated 2,438 dogs were reported as stolen to police forces in the UK, a 19% rise on 2019 numbers (2,026)
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Jumping for joy as Cardwell Garden Centre re-opens
Louise Harris jumps for joy after visiting Cardwell Garden Centre when it re-opened after lockdown on Monday (April 5). The 38-year-old keen gardener, from Inverkip was one of the first customers at the garden centre, near Gourock when Cardwell welcomed visitors for the first time this year.
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Gardening voted as one of the most popular pastimes
New research by Hozelock
More than eight in 10 adults have taken up a new hobby during lockdown to boost their mental or physical health, with walking, reading, exercising and gardening the most popular pastimes....
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Bents announces fundraising total and welcomes new charity
Before Bents Garden & Home can fully welcome Solving Kids Cancer as its 2021 charity of the year, it must say a huge thank you to everyone who has helped raise £16,477 for Once Upon a Smile; the charity it has supported for the past two years, during what has been one of the most challenging times for everyone...
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Lawns and gardening promote better mental health
Many people find enjoyment relaxing in their own green space or getting their hands dirty transforming their garden, and these activities are great for positively impacting health...
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Desch Plantpak presents: Colour Your Story, autumn/winter
Desch Plantpak presents the latest edition of Colour Your Story. The number one colourful inspiration magazine where you can find, among other things, the latest trends, innovations, developments in the field of sustainability, and an interview with Dr Joachim Christiani, Managing Director of Cyclos HTP...
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Inside Outside... A New Beginning for the garden market - Read GTN's March Issue on-line now
Inside Outside... a New Beginning. How the 5th room is changing the garden centre retailing market in the March 2021 issue of GTN. Read on-line here.
- Next Generation to lead the way at GCA, interview with Tammy Woodhouse and Will Blake.
- Inside Outside… A New Beginning for the garden market.
- Empowering Change for a brighter future, LOFA team up with Planet Mark.
- HTA Column, Tales of the unexpected.
- GIMA Column, Somewhere over the rainbow, a ‘New Normal’ exists.
Read GTN's March 2021 Issue on-line here
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Planters announce closure for Duke of Edinburgh's funeral
Planters Garden Centres at Tamworth and Bretby have made the decision to close on Saturday at 2pm so that staff can pay their respects to the Duke of Edinburgh at 3pm...
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Gaps on shelves as sales stay high
“It’s constant, every day sales are high,” was a regular comment heard from garden centre managers last week. No wonder Garden Product sales were up by 66% on the same week in 2019...
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Zoo proposal for former garden centre rejected
The future of a former garden centre and nursery in Essex has been left in doubt after plans to create a ‘tropical’ zoo on the site were turned down by the local council...
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50% more veg being grown
Veg-2-Gro sales may have dropped by a quarter week on week, but they still remain over 50% up year to date compared with 2019 and more than double those in 2018...
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One million take part in record-breaking RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch
The number of nature lovers who took part in the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch soared to a million people this winter after a year of lockdown restrictions saw people turn to nature for comfort...
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Growing Media up by 109%
Core gardening activity continues a pace despite the cold Easter weather as illustrated by GTN’s Growing Media volume sales index for last week being 109% up on the same week last year...
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Watch Your Back! returns with new scheme designed to keep everyone in horticulture sun protected.
Since its launch in 2016, over 370 garden centres, nine leading gardeners and six major horticultural organisations have supported Watch Your Back!, a sun protection campaign for gardeners devised by the Melanoma Fund...
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Buckingham Palace Garden to open to visitors
The garden at Buckingham Palace will open to visitors from July to September this year, allowing the grounds of Her Majesty The Queen’s official London residence to be explored through a self-guided tour for the first time...
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RHS and Ulster Weavers announce new kitchen textiles range
The Royal Horticultural Society has announced the launch by Ulster Weavers, an award-winning home textiles company, of a new RHS range of kitchen textiles.
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Wildflowers for The Queen - a celebration of wildflower meadows
In partnership with conservation charity Plantlife, and with a foreword by their patron HRH The Prince of Wales, Wildflowers for The Queen, by fine-art photographer Hugo Rittson-Thomas, celebrates the unsung beauty and diversity of wildflower meadows (published by Wildflower Press, 320pp, £50, 11 October 2020)...
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The best of last week's
If you missed last week's GTN Xtra, below are the most-read stories...
Easter thank you to growers, manufacturers & distributors from British Garden Centres
The team at British Garden Centres took the opportunity of a brief lull in trading on Easter Sunday to express their huge thanks to their industry friends for their help in the last year...
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Derek Bunker adds his thanks to suppliers for "their efforts throughout this amazing period in garden centre history"
After reading Charles Stubbs Easter message in GTN Xtra on Easter Monday, Derek Bunker, who is celebrating 50 years of Alton Garden Centre contacted the GTN team to pass on his thanks to all suppliers and staff too...
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East Yorkshire garden centre sells for £1.5m
California Gardens in East Yorkshire has been sold for £1.5m to two local businessmen who plan to invest more than £1m in the garden centre and create 15 new jobs...
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Garden Centres re-open in Scotland... and it snows!
After waiting patiently to be given permission to re-open, garden centres in Scotland have welcomed customers back in store this morning for the first time... and sods law has been invoked with it snowing...
Read more and watch video from Colin Barrie at Caulders
Barton Grange Christmas 2020 - Exclusive GTN Xtra Photo Tour
In advance of the launch of GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards 2020, GTN's Northern Correspondent, Steve Myatt, paid a visit to Barton Grange to bring you this first GTN Xtra Christmas photo tour.
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Squires Badshot Lea - Christmas 2020
Sneak preview of Squires Badshot Lea Greatest Christmas Awards entry
See Squires Bashot Lea's Christmas Awards entry photo tour here
Perrywood at Christmas 2020 - with correct photo gallery now...
Sneak preview of Perrywoods Greatest Christmas Awards entry
See Perrywoods Christmas Awards Entry Photo Tour here
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