Just one week after the devastating fire at Blooms Cardiff, the garden centre has opened its gates to customers from this weekend and will be selling real Christmas trees and wreaths...
Volume sales in garden centres are on track to end the year 15% up, as predicted by GTN Bestsellers three weeks ago. This week’s volume increase of 20%, coupled with a weather forecast that doesn’t mention snow at all through to Christmas, puts us in the best possible place to end the year on a really big high...
Diners and early Christmas shoppers turned to garden centres for their refreshments and festive purchases in October with sales in both categories up on the same month last year. That's according to the GCA Barometer of Trade...
Garden centres and nurseries have just days left to register their concerns with MEPs about new plant-naming proposals that many believe could devastate ornamantal horticulture...
Entries for The Greatest Garden Centre Team at Christmas are starting to arrive at the GTN offices. The first entry to be received – unfortunately there are no prizes for this accolade – was for Langlands Garden Centre in York Road, Leeds...
Notcutts Garden Centres announced yesterday they are to buy Sussex garden centre Garden Pride and one of The Greatest Christmas Awards Experts visited the teams this week to collect information for their Greatest Christmas Awards entry...
Tickets are selling fast for The Greatest Christmas Awards Party on Sunday, January 12, 2014 at the Majestic Hotel in Harrogate...so make sure you don't miss out!
Sales of Christmas products have been boosted by customers getting into the party spirit with the Premier Plush Santa Hat being the highest re-entry in the GTN Bestsellers chart...
During the darker months of winter when the garden is dormant, plants with vibrant coloured bark come into their own making Winter Stem the perfect choice for HTA’s Plant of the Month for December...
HSBC’S Head of Economics Mark Berrisford-Smith will be speaking at the GCA annual conference in January about the outlook for garden centres and their suppliers...
More pictures of Garden Centre Christmas displays than have ever been published before
The GTN team and Greatest Awards Experts have already been out and about visiting garden centres throughout the country and have seen some brilliant Christmas displays. Here's a selection of the 2013 displays that are selling through now. Just click on the garden centre name to take you to their picture gallery:
Vote on-line for The Greatest Christmas Supplier of the Year.
Every year we ask garden centres across the country to vote for their Greatest Christmas Supplier of the Year. We count one vote per garden centre and the winners are announced at The Greatest Awards Christmas Party in January.
Gardman’s January sale flew off the shelves earlier this year that the provider of garden sundries and wild bird care products is making the forthcoming campaign even bigger...
Path Weedkiller is the only product on the market with Chemicals Regulation Directorate approval to state it keeps paths clear of weeds for up to six months...
