In This Issue
Dobbies to open Garden Cafe in Dundee Tesco Extra
Home & Garden group buy eighth centre at Ferndown
Record numbers sign up for 2015 Rising Stars
Classiflora at its spring best on busy open days
Monkton Elm's new restaurant nears completion
Will the mild weather give sales a boost this weekend?
Hambrooks relaunch Titchfield site as garden design showcase
Bents look for new general manager
Hands up...Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day is closer than you think...
Crest recruit two experienced marketeers
Solar eclipse will get Edible Garden Show off to an eerie start...
Gardening celebs get their Glovies ready for 2015 Greenfingers Garden Re‐Leaf Quiz
Crowd funding helps bring Christmas tree stand manufacturing back to UK
My new designs will make digging easier, claims inventor
Thieves steal trees worth £3k from centre next to M4
Horticultural Buyer - Suffolk
Nursery Operations Manager - Northumberland
Deputy Manager - Warwickshire
Home & Leisure Manager - Leicestershire
The Glovies have landed
Sinclair appoint new chief executive
Signs encouraging for great tomato-growing year
STV launches Live Pest-Free TV
White Stores pledge support for Greenfingers on Garden Re-Leaf Day
Mr Fothergill’s Seeds provides support to Love the Plot You’ve Got
Gift card and voucher sales continue strong growth
Growing media sales take a dip
BHETA's meet-the-buyer day with Argos hits the spot
Don't forget propagators say Stewarts
Love the Plot campaign ready for the road
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Dobbies to open Garden Cafe in Dundee Tesco Extra


Dobbies are nearing completion of a Garden Cafe at one of the Tesco Extra sites in Dundee...
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Home & Garden group buy eighth centre at Ferndown


Paul Chessum’s Home & Garden group has acquired its eighth garden centre -  Plowmans at Ferndown in Dorset...
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Record numbers sign up for 2015 Rising Stars
The Rising Stars 2015 Programme has received a record number of entries from garden centre staff looking to get ahead in the world of horticultural retailing...



Above: Rising Star Hannah Mason, one of the five finalists who presented at the GCA conference in January.
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Classiflora at its spring best on busy open days
Waltham Abbey-based plant wholesalers Classiflora Zelari attracted hordes of buyers from across the country this week on two cold but generally sun-soaked open days...

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Monkton Elm's new restaurant nears completion


The new restaurant at Monkton Elm Garden & Pet Centre is on schedule to open in April with the internal fit-out well underway...
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Will the mild weather give sales a boost this weekend?
Garden centres throughout the UK will be hoping that this weekend's forecasted mild weather will help to boost sales. 



“It’s going to be 15 degrees this weekend,” were the optimistic words from new Scotts UK General Manager Sheila Hill, pictured above right on a visit to Van Hage Peterborough where she met up with manager Chrissie Hills.
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Hambrooks relaunch Titchfield site as garden design showcase
Landscapers Hambrooks have re-launched their Titchfield site as a design-driven Destination Garden Centre featuring what will almost certainly be the biggest display of show gardens in UK garden retailing...

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Bents look for new general manager



Warrington-based Bents Garden & Home is looking for a new general manager to take on day-to-day responsibility for the £20m turnover business...

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Hands up...Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day is closer than you think...
'Glovies' have been helping staff and customers at Bosworths Garden Centre in Northants and Baytree Garden Centre in Spalding get in the mood for Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day on Friday 27 March, along with hundreds of other garden centres across the UK...

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Crest recruit two experienced marketeers

Crest Garden announced two new marketing appointments this week....

  

Above: Marie Williams (left) and Natalie Serle

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Solar eclipse will get Edible Garden Show off to an eerie start...




The 2015 Edible Garden Show opens at Alexandra Palace on Friday 20 March - the day of a solar eclipse, which is due to plunge much of the UK into eerie darkness...

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Gardening celebs get their Glovies ready for 2015 Greenfingers Garden Re‐Leaf Quiz

Horticultural celebrities from TV and radio are busy recording questions, wearing Glovies of course, for the 2015 Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day Quiz...
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Crowd funding helps bring Christmas tree stand manufacturing back to UK

Garden Pride Marketing have successfully used crowd funding to bring manufacturing of their Christmas tree stands back to Sussex...

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My new designs will make digging easier, claims inventor
Colourful new garden spades and forks with a difference designed by Safe-n-Easy inventor Graham Smith are due to arrive in garden centres later this spring...




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Thieves steal trees worth £3k from centre next to M4
Burglars stole 30 trees worth more than £3,000 in a daring break-in at a garden centre in Cardiff...



Above: Jap Deen, owner of The Dutch Garden Centre, with the pots the thieves left behind. 
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