One week doesn’t make a trend, but what a way to start the year, in the first week of January the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products Chart index is up 11% on 2011 and beating week 1 sales from 2010 and 2009 too...
Numerous garden centres across the UK are extending invites to their customers to join them in the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch on Saturday 28 to Sunday 29 January, however, this year’s results will be hard to predict...
If you have schools in your area that are registered, stock up on tree care products such as planting tools, tree stakes and tree ties, or even offer advice or assistance to help with planting...
The highest GTN Veg 2 Gro Bestsellers chart index for the first week of January in 3 years indicates that at least when the weather is in our favour the demand for grow your own is still high...
Andrew Pitman, Plant Manager at Monkton Elm Garden & Pet Centre, during last year’s (2011) sapling giveaway
The RHS are not the only ones giving away trees – Monkton Elm in Somerset is inviting worthy causes from the county to contact them and they could qualify to receive free young trees....
This year’s RHS list has two pests that are in the top ten for the first time. Fuchsia gall mite, at number six, was unknown in the UK before 2007, and the other new entry, at number eight, is leek moth.
As the housewares market becomes an increasingly integral part of garden centre retailing, the new Housewares Conference & Innovation Awards event has proved a popular attraction.
Manor Garden Centre in Leasowe was broken into last Saturday, then again on Sunday, leaving the centre thousands of pounds down and the owner without his company truck.
A culinary tour of the globe has been unveiled by Merryhatton Garden Centre this month – a series of monthly international evenings in its award-winning café...
The HTA has published a Directory of HTA Training and Business Development Events outlining the diverse range of HTA-run events, training and business improvement scheme dates for 2012...
Sunshine and mild weather have got our customers out there digging and preparing like no other first week of the year...