In This Issue
Tong Garden Centre bought by Yorkshire businessmen in multi-million pound deal
Planners set limit on Heighley Gate clothing sales
Economist's election prediction at GCA conference proves spot on!
Easter sales pattern repeated on May Day weekend
Light up your displays with Candor Europe
Wyevale Garden Centres launch new clematis named after Princess Charlotte
Newlyweds tip-toe through tulips...and start police hunt
On Naked Gardening Day, Merryhatton follow (birthday) suit...
Brits spend £123 a year on garden they hardly ever use
Stax to open £5m depot in Glasgow this summer
Where there's smoke, there's sales
Writtle College students to take part in Young Hillier Day at Chelsea
Shoot reaches £350,000 crowd-funding target after two weeks
Garden Centre Manager - Morden Hall Park, Morden, London
Shop Manager - Berkshire
Garden Centre Manager - Bedfordshire
Assistant Production Manager, Nursery - Herefordshire
Nursery Supervisor - Bedfordshire
Garden product sales boosted by lighting lines
Runner bean variety hits the top spot
Compost sales down on previous week but still signs of gardening activity
Dorset garden centre re-opens after revamp
Free Father's Day pints and burgers will launch new garden centre
Wildlife World forms partnership with school book fair company
Writtle College appoints new governors
New office for G Plants sparks further expansion plans
New names join B&Q plant buying team
Floralis gears up for May three-day event
Plantarium organisers announce plans to strengthen show's future
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Buy your subscription to GTN Bestsellers
Only a week left to take advantage of the Early Bird rate for the HTA Catering Conference 2015
Monkton Elm opens Elm Tree Restaurant
Cotswold Fayre to distribute new National Trust Gift and Hamper Collection
It's British Sandwich Week
Situations Vacant
Garden Centre Manager - Morden Hall Park, Morden, London
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Tong Garden Centre bought by Yorkshire businessmen in multi-million pound deal
New owners promise sale will lead to jobs boost

Two Yorkshire entrepreneurs, whose businesses include a successful farm shop in the county, have bought Tong Garden Centre, near Bradford, in a multi-million pound deal. Tom Megginson and Mark Farnsworth say they have substantial redevelopment plans for the centre, which could result in a jobs boost...

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Planners set limit on Heighley Gate clothing sales
Planners have imposed a limit on how much outdoor clothing and footwear can be sold at Wyevale Garden Centres’ Heighley Gate site in Northumberland...

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Economist's election prediction at GCA conference proves spot on!
Leading economist Roger Martin-Fagg's prediction at the Garden Centre Association’s 2015 conference in January about the result of this week's General Election has proved to be uncannily accurate...



Prime Minister David Cameron was on the campaign trail at Squires Garden Centre in Twickenham just days before his General Election victory.
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Easter sales pattern repeated on May Day weekend


The May Bank Holiday looks like being a repeat of Easter – not so good weather on Saturday and Sunday leading to sales being down on the previous week when hopes had been for growth, and then better sales on Bank Holiday Monday itself as the weather improved significantly. That's according to GTN Bestsellers data...
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Light up your displays with Candor Europe
 
With your customers buying more and more garden lights to enhance their gardens, here’s a great idea for easily adding light to your product displays...
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Wyevale Garden Centres launch new clematis named after Princess Charlotte


Wyevale Garden Centres launched an exclusive Clematis Princess Charlotte, named after the Royal Princess, this week. This tribute follows the popularity of 'Clematis George' with gardeners across the country following the birth of the first child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge – Prince George – in 2013...
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Newlyweds tip-toe through tulips...and start police hunt
Dutch police launched a social media campaign to track down a newly-wed couple who were posing for photographs in a field of blooming tulips at Voorhout last week-end...

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On Naked Gardening Day, Merryhatton follow (birthday) suit...
Last week’s illustrated GTN Xtra story about how a community garden centre in Manchester celebrated National Naked Gardening Day prompted Scott at Merryhatton Garden Centre in East Lothian to mark the occasion in his own special way...

 
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Brits spend £123 a year on garden they hardly ever use
British households spend £123 a year and an average of two days a month on their gardens – but then hardly use them, according to a new survey by discount retailer Poundstretcher...

Left: products on the Poundstretcher website.


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Stax to open £5m depot in Glasgow this summer
Wholesaler Stax is to open a branch in Glasgow at the end of August, at a cost of £5 million. The new dual purpose distribution centre and cash & carry will be the company’s sixth depot and its second in Scotland...

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Only a week left to take advantage of the Early Bird rate for the HTA Catering Conference 2015
The sixth HTA Catering Conference 2015 will take place on June 9-10 at The Belfry, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands. The two day conference, complete with conference dinner and exhibition, and sponsored by Vision Commercial Kitchens, will cover hot topics that impact garden centre catering. 

Pictured: Anthony Hester, Head of Restaurants at Dobbies Garden Centres, will all join a panel of experts on day one of the conference.
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Monkton Elm opens Elm Tree Restaurant



Monkton Elm Garden & Pet Centre has opened its new Elm Tree restaurant to the public. The new build, which has a footprint of nearly 1,000 sqm and a brand new kitchen with state-of-art equipment, seats 350 people...

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Cotswold Fayre to distribute new National Trust Gift and Hamper Collection
Cotswold Fayre has been appointed by Todhunter, designer of bespoke food gifts and hampers, as the major distributor for its new range of beautiful National Trust gifts anhampers...
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It's British Sandwich Week


Thanks to Woodborough Garden Centre in Wiltshire for alerting us that it is British Sandwich Week starting tomorrow, Sunday 10th May...
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Where there's smoke, there's sales
 
We’ve seen some great displays of Chimneas in recent garden centre visits, plenty of red flame effects – but none to rival the display at The Garden Retail Experience in Holland earlier this year...
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Writtle College students to take part in Young Hillier Day at Chelsea


Writtle College students will be part of a team of young people taking over the largest exhibit in the RHS Chelsea Flower Show’s Great Pavilion. The inaugural Young Hillier Day on May 22 is the brainchild of staff at the 150-year-old Hillier Nurseries and aims to showcase horticultural careers and what horticulture offers young people...
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Shoot reaches £350,000 crowd-funding target after two weeks


Gardening website Shoot said this week it had beaten its £350,000 crowd funding target after just two weeks...


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