Woof! Newshound here…back and straining at the leash. So what’s cooking? The boss says people who’ve have had their ears to the walls at Wyevale GCs HQ reckon there’s something interesting about to break...
Poinsettia are poised for bumper sales right through to Christmas. GTN Bestsellers has seen the homegrown crop at Aylett Nurseries (pictured above) that are looking their best ever according to the Ayletts growing team, and Wyevale Garden Centres have announced their J’Adore pink poinsettia that is outselling the traditional red varieties...
Residents at Great Sutton near Ellesmere Port in Cheshire have launched a campaign designed to prevent their local garden centre - the Klondyke Group’s Sycamore Park – from closing...
The new autumn/winter season saw garden centre customers stocking up on warm clothing and accessories during September, according to the Garden Centre Association’s Barometer of Trade report.
Buyers from a specialist German online retailer and mail order company that specialises in British products, as well as garden distributors from Germany and Romania (each with an online presence too) will be travelling to the UK on 30 November 2017 to meet with UK suppliers...
London-based SmartPlant, whose digital app helps users to identify and care for their plants, has raised more than £200,000 in a crowd-funding campaign designed to help it further develop the technology - and is attracting interest from garden retailers...
The payment gateway at Stewarts Garden Centres crashed as 10,000 customers tried to book a visit to Santa – forcing chairman Martin Stewart to issue an apology in the local press...
A new £1 million botanical-style restaurant at Groves Garden Centre at Bridport, Dorset in a designated AONB is now just a few months away from completion...
The Kent & Stowe Lawn Care silent sales assistant display unit sited alongside fertilisers and seed provides clear pictorial guidance on selecting the right tools for the right job...
Bonnetts Garden Village at Brentwood, Essex – the first bricks-and-mortar garden centre from the owner of online retailer Gardening Express – was due to open its main store this week-end (11 November).
A historic Christmas tradition is returning to Burford House Garden Store as they welcome back the UK’s largest and most popular Holly and Mistletoe Auctions for the third year...
At Squire’s in Cobham, Hersham, Long Ditton, Reigate, Windsor and West Horsley entry to the grotto is free, and visitors can donate as much as they like to the local charities that Squire’s support...
A retired couple spotted a lorry with a seemingly suggestive slogan on its side as they shopped for Christmas trees at Wyevale’s Barnett Hill garden centre near Stourbridge....
Helen MacDonald of Merryhatton Garden Centre in East Lothian, near Edinburgh, has been appointed to the role of HTA Council Representative for Scotland. Helen replaces Simon Fraser who stepped down at the last meeting following his appointment to the Board...
After four weeks of plant sales being down year on year, the first week of November changed all that with a 14% upturn. ‘Christmas’ plants featured amongst the big movers with Hellebores, Poinsettia and Amaryllis all seeing sizeable increases...
The European Commission and the 27 EU member states failed yet again last week to agree on the proposal for a five-year extension for glyphosate...and a UK company proposes thermal weeding as the ideal solution in a post-glyphosate world...
There was a wonderful boost for vertical gardening with USP’s Wonderwall product re-entering the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products Chart at No 2, only being outsold in volume terms by Fito Orchid Drip Feeders...
Haskins is encouraging gardeners to make the most of National Tree Week with a new competition to win a tree for the garden, school or local community...
Surrey garden centre Woodcote Green Nurseries, acquired by Wyevale Garden Centres in January 2016 but run by its former management on a semi-autonomous basis, increased turnover by 3.5% last year to £16.18m. Pre-tax profits rose to £1.55m...
Briers have announced that James Worby, who has been an agent for them in the South East for 7 years, has decided to leave the Company to concentrate on his other agencies...
Oldrids & Downtown have submitted plans that include the development of a 107 unit Designer Outlet Centre; a purpose-built Downtown@Home store; a reconfigured "Garden Centre of the Future"; an indoor leisure complex; a high-tech hub / managed office space for start-up businesses; a tourist information & visitor centre and a new training academy alongside the existing Downtown and Boundary Mill stores at Gonerby Moor on the A1...
Kelkay’s highly successful licensing arrangement with the Royal Horticultural Society on the company’s range of horticultural grits and gravels has prompted both parties to explore other opportunities. As a result, that Kelkay has announcing the introduction of a range of wildlife themed stepping stones for 2018. We asked Kelkay’s MD, Antony Harker, to tell us more.
"Pied piper, plant enthusiast, retail doyen. Whichever label you chose for Nicholas the UK Garden Centre industry is certainly more colourful with Nicholas back on the scene." Read GTN's interview with Nicholas Marshall in the November 2017 issue...
