At this year's Glee, Durston Garden Products' message is one of Simplicity and Consolidation. All too often we see the market flooded with goods that don’t always make it out of the warehouse, let alone onto retail shelves. And that’s why Durston Garden Products are sticking rigidly to its core range.

Record temperatures in July have been matched with record garden centre total sales for the month. Analysis of garden centre Epos data for GTN Bestsellers shows July 2019 was 22% up on 2018,  1% up on the previous July high set in 2015 and 6% higher than the 9 year average for the month.

Festive has recently teamed up with the world’s largest battery brand, Duracell, to help you maximise your Garden Centre battery sale opportunities...

July plant sales were down 9% on last year but 12% up on 2017 according to GTN Bestsellers Epos data analysis.  That means on a year to date basis total plant sales this year are now 6.3% down on last year and 2.7% up on 2017...

Wyevale Garden Centres have announced the sale of Bridgemere Garden Centre and Bridgemere Nursery to Blue Diamond, and Cheltenham Garden Centre to Webbs Garden Centres...

GIMA’s many fundraising activities during the past year the year have raised more than £20,000 for Greenfingers, the association’s chosen charity, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary year...

GIMA is encouraging new businesses and innovators to enter this year’s annual GIMA Innovators’ Seed Corn Fund (GISCF), a special fund set up to encourage grass root business and product development...

In the first of a two-part series, we look at how exhibitors at next month’s Glee (10-12 September, NEC Birmingham)  are planning to reduce dependency on single-use plastics, while also examining manufacturers’ and suppliers’ efforts to boost recycling and lower carbon footprints...

An Oxfordshire garden centre owner has won a luxury holiday in Barbados in a competition sponsored by the suppliers of leading outdoor furniture brand Katie Blake...

Staff at Haskins Garden Centre in Ferndown complete Static Bikeathon in aid of Faithworks Wessex...

Leading grass seed brand Johnsons Lawn Seed will unveil a major breakthrough in seed technology at Glee (stand 8B50-C51) – revealing the solution to a lawncare problem that consumers have been craving for decades...

Seven Oaks Garden Centre at Ruthin has been named Garden Centre Café of the Year in the 2019 Welsh Café Awards...

Demand for natural slug controls will continue to grow, despite the withdrawal and review of the metaldehyde ban following a High Court ruling, says a supplier...

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Dorset’s most wildlife-friendly gardeners were honoured in an awards ceremony at Castle Gardens in Sherborne sponsored by The Gardens Group...

Former Tesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy will top the bill at the Cultivating Retail conference in November...

Blenheim Plant and Garden Centre at Colchester has been named as the local Garden Centre of the Year in Awards run by the Colchester Gazette...