Wyevale Garden Centres has today announced two transactions for a total of six centres to garden centre groups Hillier Nurseries Limited and Otter Nurseries Limited. The four centres: Cheddar, Dorking, Marlow, Lechlade will be sold to Hillier Nurseries Limited. The two centres: Jack’s Patch and Taunton will be sold to Otter Nurseries Limited. The deals are expected to complete during June and July.

Haskins Garden Centres has used part of a new £21.5 million finance facility from HSBC UK to undergo a complete redevelopment of one of its four sites – Snowhill in West Sussex...

A Mother's Day weekend and last week of March that was way ahead of recent years and only just behind the records set in 2011 meant the month closed at 40% up on 2018 for total sales and matched the average for March over the past 9 years...

Funds raised for the Greenfingers Charity on last month’s Garden Re-Leaf Day could reach £70,000, the charity has estimated...

Above: David Carey of Mr Fothergill's Seeds leads a group on the Garden Re-Leaf Day Walk through the Buckinghamshire countryside.

A bumper Mother's Day weekend pushed March plant sales to be 34% up year to date on 2018 and most importantly up 4.7% on the first three months of 2017...

The continued success and popularity of SafeLawn sees Westland’s Lawnman returning to TV for the third year running as part of an extensive campaign to promote SafeLawn and drive the lawncare sector...

Haskins Snowhill Garden Centre at Copthorne near Crawley has moved into its temporary building while the rest of the site is redeveloped over the next year...

SOLEX will be opening its doors to the most influential buyers from within the garden industry on 9^th July 2019.  It will be packed full of the freshest designs from 60 LOFA members, with the full A-Z and everything in between that the outdoor and leisure industry has to offer...

With warmer weather on the horizon and the first signs of Spring making an appearance in gardens, Evergreen Garden Care’s latest £3.5 million TV advertising and multimedia marketing campaign is designed to communicate the key messages and product benefits of the company’s most tried and trusted brands to millions of consumers across the country...

The latest results from the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch have revealed a mixed picture for the UK’s garden birdlife with 15 of the top 20 species returning fewer sightings in gardens across the country than in 2018.

Student grower Kobus Stander has won a £2,000 South West Growers Show (SWGS) sponsored scholarship...

Hillier Nurseries, the most successful exhibitor in the history of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, is pleased to announce it will be exhibiting again this year and can now reveal the design of the 2019 garden...

Making their debut at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019 are three new plant varieties introduced by Hillier Nurseries, including Weigela ‘Picobella Rosa’, which produces more than 500 glorious deep-pink flowers between May and October. 

Bents Garden & Home presented a cheque for £26,204 to St Rocco’s Hospice in Warrington, its 2018 charity of the year...

More than 30 companies are to take part in the second edition of Garden Trials and Trade in the Netherlands this summer...

Squire’s Garden Centres have launched a free soil testing service. Customers are invited to bring in a small handful of garden soil in a container to be tested for pH level...

Pistoia-based Innocenti  & Mangoni is stepping up its sales drive in the UK following major investment in production facilities for young plants.

Pictured: Marco Innocenti with Young Plant Display at IPM Essen 2019.