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New from Global Journey, these new cool lunch bags for kids are ideal for back to school, picnics and days out...

Burleydam and Rosebourne garden centres sing the praises of Woodmansterne’s W-Select Service as they increase customer satisfaction and card sales...

Increasingly popular with the British public, Halloween continues to take a higher chunk of consumer spending in categories like costumes, confectionery and of course, home décor...

Royal Canin is introducing a new a feline wet range - Sensory - with three new sensorial stimulations of Smell, Taste and Feel developed to excite cats’ senses. The new range will launch throughout August and September...

Retail giant Selfridges has introduced garden centres into its London, Manchester and Birmingham stores as it attempts to capitalise on the gardening boom that grew during the lockdowns...

Waste-aware gardeners will now be able to recycle compost packaging thanks to a trial scheme from Dobbies, the country’s biggest garden retailer. 

Two more popular Virtual Meet the Buyers events organised by Gardenex will be held in July, featuring buyers from a South African garden centre chain and a leading Canadian garden product retailer...

Planning officers have recommended that proposals for what’s been described as the UK’s largest garden centre be approved by local councillors...

Farm shops and houseplant sales dominated at garden centres this May (2021) according to the Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) recent Barometer of Trade (BoT) report...

Sustainable plant pot producer, elho, recognises the importance of creating beautiful outdoor spaces, and has designed a new range of pots to give customers the ability to reflect their own style throughout their outdoor areas...

The Royal Horticultural Society is embarking on its largest scale plant collecting exercise to date as it sets out to record all 400,000 thought to be growing in UK gardens and in the process discover those never before recorded or which were thought lost to cultivation...

The UK’s leading brand of sustainable composite decking and cladding, Composite Prime, has launched an exclusive online stockist training programme. Following a huge surge in demand for composite decking products experienced by stockists during the pandemic the brand has invested in a free to use, virtual training platform...

The Flower Power range from Richard Jackson Garden has everything needed to get gardens ready for summer, and to keep them beautiful and productive all year round...

The Eden Project’s indoor South Africa garden is being transformed with new planting and a walking trail, highlighting the country’s incredible biodiversity...

Discount retail group QD, which includes QD stores and Cherry Lane Garden Centres, has introduced food bank collection points to help generate more donations for local food banks. 24 of its stores are taking part so far, including nine Cherry Lanes...

The Peat Issue – Retailer Comment from Alan Roper - Blue Diamond, Adam Wigglesworth - Aylett Nurseries, Paul Cooling - Coolings, Marcus Eyles and Graeme Jenkins - Dobbies, Justin Williams - Fron Goch, Charlie Groves - Groves Nurseries & Garden Centre, Martin Breddy - Squires, Matthew Bent - Bents Garden & Home, Mike Burks - The Gardens Group, Roger Crookes, Tammy Woodhouse - Millbrook Garden Centres, Andy Bunker - Alton Garden Centre

The Peat Issue – What about the alternatives

The Peat Issue – Responsible sourcing for the future    
The Peat Issue – Seabrook on Peat

The Peat Issue – How does Peat emit Carbon?  

Dobbies Boston – Before and After

M42 Garden Centre Photo Tour – Planters, Melbicks, Rosebourne Solihull, Notcutts Solihull, BGC Studley

The Berkshire Gardener Photo Tour

Westland Driving Growth

Woodmansterne – A fresh approach to card sales

HTA Column – Solutions please…

GIMA Column – We have achieved so much