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Garden centres report busiest ever day as gardens are the focus for family re-unions this week - More comments added
Primeur raring to go for spring/summer 2021!
Studley Grange Garden Centre installs WinRetail
Cherry Lane acquires Langford Garden Centre
Suez Canal blockage causes further delays for garden furniture
One year on and sales keep growing
Garden Re-Leaf Day 2021 raises £35,000 with the total still rising!
Record high for plants in March
little dobbies opens its doors in Bristol
AMES UK goes the extra mile for Greenfingers
DJ Turfcare responds to Monty Don’s call to stop mowing our lawns
Gallery of pictures from Garden Re-Leaf Day
Tong Garden Centre invests in new Food Hall
Garden centres see big boost in furniture and BBQ sales
Clock-change signifies frustrating Spring for Northern Ireland’s cooped-up gardeners
Gardening boost for local primary school
Gardeners urged to help beetles
Dobbies teams up with the RSPB for latest podcast episode
Inside Outside... A New Beginning for the garden market - Read GTN's March Issue on-line now
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Record sales for garden products
No sign of a let up in Veg-2-Gro sales
Growing media up by 8% on last year
RHS Gardens Spring Activity Programme
‘Peonies’ – comprehensive new book by award-winning nurserywoman Claire Austin
The best of last week's
Westland call for reality to be brought to the peat debate
Eddie Topping retires
The BBQ game changer!
Garden centres facing cap on business rates relief
Barton Grange Christmas 2020 - Exclusive GTN Xtra Photo Tour
Squires Badshot Lea - Christmas 2020
Perrywood at Christmas 2020 - with correct photo gallery now...
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All the latest news from the world of pet products
Water gardening industry looks forward to AQUA’s return
The Kennel Club cancels Crufts 2021
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Garden centres report busiest ever day as gardens are the focus for family re-unions this week - More comments added

Gardens are the main stage for family re-unions as England moves to the next stage of the Roadmap today, and garden centres have been reporting their busiest ever day on Saturday this weekend...

Comment from BGC, Blue Diamond, Altons, Baytree, Planters, Bosworths, Groves, Summerseat, Fron Goch, Klondyke, Newbank, Perrywood, Raglan, Bents & Longacres Garden Centres
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Primeur raring to go for spring/summer 2021!
Sustainability, new merchandising support and range updates

As the spring season gets underway, Primeur – the award-winning supplier of the Eco Garden range of recycled rubber planters, stepping-stones and borders – is raring to go with a warehouse full of stock, new lines added and proven merchandising displays set to drive up the average basket spend. Here the company outlines five reasons why you should make Primeur your top choice for driving sales this year...

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Studley Grange Garden Centre installs WinRetail
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Corby + Fellas are delighted to announce Studley Grange Garden Centre and Butterfly World & Farm Park have just installed WinRetail.

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Cherry Lane acquires Langford Garden Centre

 

Value garden centre group, Cherry Lane, has acquired Langford Nurseries & Garden Centre in Bedfordshire, taking their group of garden centres to 15...

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Suez Canal blockage causes further delays for garden furniture

Many LOFA members have products on the container ship that is blocking the Suez canal, Ever Given, or held up in one of the container ships behind the vessel, which means yet another setback for the outdoor leisure industry which is already dealing with issues caused by port congestion, lack of empty containers and rising shipping costs...

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One year on and sales keep growing

Last week saw garden centre volume sales climb even higher to even outsell the peak created last year by the last minute panic before Lockdown #1 was formally announced...

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Garden Re-Leaf Day 2021 raises £35,000 with the total still rising!

Turning 10 is not a celebration to be missed and despite the challenges that we currently face there is no question that Garden Re-Leaf’s 10th anniversary was celebrated in style. Here we look back on some of the amazing FUNdraising events which took place throughout March – and look ahead to those yet to take place...

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Record high for plants in March

Even without the panic of a weekend before lockdown, plant sales volumes soared last week to a record high for any week in March recorded in the GTN Bestellers Epos data...

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little dobbies opens its doors in Bristol

 

Dobbies has opened a brand new format store in Bristol – little dobbies...

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AMES UK goes the extra mile for Greenfingers
 

Colleagues from Kelkay, Apta, La Hacienda and True Temper stepped out last Friday in support of Greenfingers and clocked up an incredible one million steps...

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DJ Turfcare responds to Monty Don’s call to stop mowing our lawns
 

Gardening guru, Monty Don, recently issued a rallying call to gardeners to stop mowing their lawns, claiming the process ‘burns lots of fossil fuel’, ‘makes a filthy noise’ and is ‘about the most injurious thing you can do to wildlife’. This statement has sent ripples across the gardening industry with suppliers such as DJ Turfcare wanting to actively respond as they believe such comments have potentially damaging consequences...

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Gallery of pictures from Garden Re-Leaf Day

"From head shaves to virtual walks, quizzes to minutes mowed, pot sales, skipping, #floralfriday and much more we really cannot thank the industry enough for their inspiration and for digging deep and putting the FUN into FUNdraising!..."

Garden Re-Leaf Day 2021 picture special
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Tong Garden Centre invests in new Food Hall

The former Food Hall at Tong Garden Centre has been rebranded ‘Hearty's' by Huddersfield branding and design specialists Picture Smiths and features a new branded range of all Yorkshire products...

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Garden centres see big boost in furniture and BBQ sales
 

The Garden Centre Association’s recent Barometer of Trade report for February has revealed furniture and barbecue sales at garden centres saw a 79.17% year to date increase during the month...

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Clock-change signifies frustrating Spring for Northern Ireland’s cooped-up gardeners

Consumers in Northern Ireland are desperate to get back into garden centres, with a recent survey showing that 78 per cent feel confident in visiting one. The Horticultural Trades Association survey showed that only people in Scotland have more confidence (79%) in the safety of the retail environment of a garden centre, something they put down to rigorous good practice outlined in their Safe Trading Protocols...

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Water gardening industry looks forward to AQUA’s return

The UK water gardening and aquatics industry is eagerly anticipating the return of AQUA 2021 at the Telford International Centre on Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th October...

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The Kennel Club cancels Crufts 2021

The Kennel Club has decided to cancel Crufts 2021, which was due to take place from 15 – 18 July, due to the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic and in consideration for the health and safety of all its volunteers, judges, exhibitors, sponsors, trade stand holders, visitors and staff...

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Gardening boost for local primary school

Green-fingered pupils of Littlecoates Primary Academy received a helping hand from their gardening chums at Grimsby Garden Centre in the creation of their new mini orchard...

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Gardeners urged to help beetles
 

Beetles are the unsung heroes of the garden and need our support urge the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and The Wildlife Trusts, as they launch 2021’s Wild About Gardens campaign...

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Dobbies teams up with the RSPB for latest podcast episode

Dobbies Garden Centres has teamed up with the UK’s largest nature conservation charity, the RSPB, to release its latest podcast episode. The podcast is available to listen to now and takes a look at how we can all protect and care for our local garden wildlife...

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Inside Outside... A New Beginning for the garden market - Read GTN's March Issue on-line now

Inside Outside... a New Beginning. How the 5th room is changing the garden centre retailing market in the March 2021 issue of GTN.  Read on-line here.

  • Next Generation to lead the way at GCA, interview with Tammy Woodhouse and Will Blake.
  • Inside Outside… A New Beginning for the garden market.
  • Empowering Change for a brighter future, LOFA team up with Planet Mark.
  • HTA Column, Tales of the unexpected.
  • GIMA Column, Somewhere over the rainbow, a ‘New Normal’ exists.

 

Read GTN's March 2021 Issue on-line here
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