Every week GTN receives and analyses epos data from a number of UK garden centres to produce the GTN Bestsellers charts...

With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into force on 25 May 2018 the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) is hosting a half day seminar for businesses on Wednesday 28 March 2018 to assist them with compliance...

On Saturday 17^th March gardening guru Charlie Dimmock will officially open Squire’s new garden centre in Woking...

The 6th and 7th of February will see the traditional opening of the new gardening season at Groen-Direkt’s Spring Fair. New at this edition of the annual event will be certification stamps on all the plants and products, informing buyers about the products’ sustainability...

Another good week for garden product sales sees January GTN Top 50 volumes reach the highest level since 2015, up 22% on January 2017. And it is garden lighting that is the spark that is driving sales...

Veg-2-Gro sales picked up last week to end the month 10% down on January last year, making it a below average start to the veg growing year...

January sales volumes of the GTN Bestsellers Top 50 growing media lines have reached a record high, driven by early bird offers that have really been taken advantage of by keen gardeners...

If you are on your way to Harrogate and wanting some extra input of ideas for your Christmas 2018, take a look at GTN's photo tours of 30+ garden centres this Christmas including:

• Aylett Nurseries
• Barton Grange
  Baytree
  Bents
  Blue Diamond Trentham
  Brookside, Kent
  Castle Gardens
  Daleside Klondyke
  Dobbies Mellville
  Fresh at Burcot
  Fron Goch
  Frosts Woburn Sands
  Gardenwise
  Gouldings
  Haskins Ferndown
  Haskins West End
  Hetland
  Kirktown
  Mains of Drum
  Millbrook Gravesend
  Notcutts Solihull
  Old Railway Line
  Planters Tamworth
  Pughs Radyr
  Raemoir
  Ruxley Manor
  Silverbirch
  Summerhills
  Thurrock
  Whitehall Lacock
  Woodlands Ash, Kent

Check out our Picture Gallery for gala Shakespearean performances from the Garden Centre Association's members and associates at their annual conference fancy dress evening in Stratford-upon-Avon...

Many delegates who sat attentively through the GCA conference session by behavioural economist Roger Martin-Fagg will have left the room believing they had at least a better idea of how our “inherently unstable” economic system works, even if much of what he was telling us whiffed of smoke and mirrors...

The Smart Garden team scooped the prestigious GCA Associate of the Year award, proudly claiming the title as top supplier to the industry...

Veteran gardening columnist and broadcaster Peter Seabrook is urging garden centres to take part in a nationwide June rose promotion, following the demise of the Royal National Rose Society last year.