The judges meeting for GTN’s Greatest Christmas Awards took place at the new Horticultural House this week. A 13 hour marathon session looking at the images and listening to the stories behind over 110 garden centre christmas experiences...
Plant Plot Garden Centre in Lichfield has entered its first month of trading under new owner David Rusholme, after receiving funding from Yorkshire Bank...
Multi award-winning Wigan based manufacturer Evolution Aqua continues its rapid expansion with the purchase of the Bermuda pond equipment brand from Scotts Miracle-Gro. Bob Meacham (pictured), a 26-year water gardening trade veteran, moves with the Bermuda brand to Evolution Aqua...
This week’s GTN Bestsellers Top 50 chart indexes show that Christmas sales slowed slightly last week, down 5% on the previous week, while plant sales increased by over 18%...
The Provenance Trading Company is launching its all new wild garden bird food brand, Chirpy, featuring high quality ingredients combined with impactful packaging and branding...
Staff at Blackbrooks Garden Centre rounded off the year with a celebration party held at Leeford Place Hotel, Battle on 13th December in recognition of their outstanding achievements in 2016...
Tickets are now on sale for GTN’s The Greatest Christmas Awards Party. Come and join us for the party of the year in Harrogate on Sunday 8th January 2017...
Garden centre shoppers have been buying and enjoying Lovania’s Love Gardening range since its launch just five years ago. From January 2017, they will be getting a whole lot more with the launch of Lovania’s LoveGardening mobile website...
Gardman launches the first phase of its 2017 Christmas Emporium in January with a comprehensive range of 40 artificial Christmas trees taking centre stage...
Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Dorset, Angus Campbell, has visited specialist garden storage manufacturer Trimetals Limited to make a formal presentation of the prestigious Queen’s Awards for Enterprise...
Tickets are now on sale for GTN’s The Greatest Christmas Awards Party. Come and join us for the party of the year in Harrogate on Sunday 8th January 2017...
UK plant health, reforms to the water abstraction system and plants for the sustainable 21st century city are all on the agenda for the HTA Contact Conference 2017...
The ultimate accolades at GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards are The Greatest Christmas Garden Centre Teams, as voted for by garden centre customers. Voting starts now and runs through to Thursday December 22nd and to be in with a chance of winning all you have to do is download the posters and voting forms below for in-store voting and add our voting link to your facebook, twitter or website to get customers voting on-line too!
Independent garden centres from around the world are gthering in Paris next month for a two-day John Stanley workshop to develop new ideas for coping with the changing face of garden retailing...
UK plant health, reforms to the water abstraction system and plants for the sustainable 21st century city are all on the agenda for the HTA Contact Conference 2017 (Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire, Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 January)...
Kalettes is the new name for the delicious, nutritious vegetable formerly known as Brukale or the flower sprout. And seed company Johnsons has teamed up with its British breeder to offer UK gardeners the chance to try the unique Brussels sprout and kale hybrid for the special price of £1.00 for a packet of 25 seeds...
It may be winter outside but in garden centre planterias plant displays that look great are generating high sales volumes, according to GTN Bestsellers...
As stocks are selling out the foot has eased off on the accelerator for Christmas sales. Selling out of individual lines appears to have happened more than ever this year as it’s notable that more products than usual have featured in our GTN Bestsellers Christmas charts...
Small volumes of growing media are selling now we get into the last few weeks before Christmas. Whatever happens next week sales for the year will be 7% up which is great news for everyone in the industry.
Mr Fothergill's has again donated vegetable seeds to the Chernobyl Children's Appeal, set up by Peterborough couple John and Rosie Sandall to support families of victims of the world's worst nuclear power accident...
