Wyevale Garden Centre CEO Roger Mclaughlan has revealed to GTN Xtra that it’s “business as usual” while the company considers offers on its 145 centres."We are well set up for peak trading, and all colleagues are focused on ensuring we continue to deliver best-in-class retail experiences for our customers," he said...

It was officially a record breaking May according to the GTN Bestsellers Epos Sales data analysis. May 2018 total garden centre sales were up by 12% on May 2017 and ahead of the previous May best set in 2016 by 1%...

Strikes garden centre destroyed by fire in April says it will be “business as usual” within weeks, when a new temporary building opens its doors...

The GTN Bestsellers total plant sales analysis for May shows volumes up by 21% on May last year which is probably an all-time record but as we only started detailed plants analysis in 2016 we can’t look back further than that at the moment.

Suppliers and retailers from the garden retail industry came together for a day of fun, team building and networking at the GIMA Charity Golf & Activity Day in Telford, raising funds for Greenfingers and Acorns Hospice...

Garden centre owners were among the 500 guests invited to the Dorchester Hotel last night to join John Athwal as he celebrated his 65th birthday, 30 years of trading for Premier Decorations and his OBE...

The 132-strong team at Highfield Garden World in Gloucestershire now includes members of not two but three generations of the founding Greenway family. Emma Greenway, 25, has recently joined her father, aunt and grandmother in the family business.

Four women from Stratford Garden Centre – Liz, Julie, Caroline and Helen – will be walking 26 miles of the Northumberland Coast on Saturday, July 21, to raise monies for Macmillan Cancer Support...

Supermarket giant Morrisons has applied for permission to build a garden centre on land near its store in Falkirk...

Sales at garden centres across the country were up and down during April according to the Garden Centre Association’s Barometer of Trade report. Mark Winchester, Managing Director at Blackbrooks Garden Centre in East Sussex, said: “It was very much a month of two halves."

Otter Nurseries in Torquay will nearly double in size, creating 70 new jobs if major expansion plans are given the go-ahead...

Kent & Stowe has launched a unique collection of gifts using the WW2 ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign, taking inspiration from British civilians who grew their own throughout WW2...

Bransford Webbs is gearing up for the HTA National Plant Show to ensure the company has another show-stopping stand full of inspiration and interest for customers old and new alike!...

It took scientists years to develop Imara, the new impatiens walleriana from Syngenta Flowers which is more resistant to downy mildew than ever before,

The European Parliament's temporary committee on pesticides must take a common sense approach to regulation if it is to make a useful contribution, according to Anthea McIntyre MEP, UK Conservative spokesman on Agriculture...

With the weather warming up, many fishkeepers will be looking for advice on caring for their pond this summer. But, with so much information out there, how can retailers really be sure what to recommend? To help, Dave Hulse, Tetra’s Technical Expert has answered some of the most common questions around summer ponds...