In This Issue
Roller coaster ride for Christmas 2022
Surprise in store for Hogewoning customers at Harrogate Christmas & Gifts show
Restaurant re-opens after blaze at Alton Garden Centre
GCA announces Christmas display competition winners
Notcutts officially opens new-look Brampton Garden Centre
STV continues price freeze on more than 250 products
Celebrating triple graduation from leadership scheme 
Economist announced as key speaker at GCA conference
Brimsmore Gardens wins national Christmas competition
Show garden inspires gardeners at Notcutts garden centre
How to raise funds for Greenfingers this Christmas
Houseplant care range Plantsmith stars in Oxford Street
Colegrave Seabrook Foundation receives support from The Worshipful Company of Gardeners
GCA members to vote for Associate Member of the Year
Consumers divided over expected purchasing power
Book your place in front of the garden media
Gardena supports Manchester airport’s eco-garden contest
Applications open for BBC Gardeners’ World Events Beautiful Borders 
Dobbies donates 300 Christmas trees to charities
Dobbies CEO interview in GTN's November GIMA Roll of Honour issue, read on-line here
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Stark challenges ahead as 750,000 tonnes of household plastic packaging goes uncaptured
Swapping L’Oréal for a top finance role at nursery
DJ Turfcare invests in new sales force
AIPH and GYBN partner to launch Youth Award
Commercial Horticultural Association offers prime meeting opportunities at Fruit Logistica
The best of last week's
Dobbies records its best trading performance
New look for Glee – the international festival of garden, leisure & pet
British Garden Centres welcomes Group Buying Director
Greenfingers celebrates another superb fundraising dinner
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Roller coaster ride for Christmas 2022
GTN Bestsellers weekly garden centre Epos data analysis

It has been a roller coaster ride over the past six weeks for the Christmas Top 50 Bestsellers sales volume, with weeks alternating between up and down year on year.  Week 43 saw the biggest variance, up by 42% and week 45 the biggest year on year deficit at minus 8%...

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Surprise in store for Hogewoning customers at Harrogate Christmas & Gifts show
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Hogewoning is known for many years for his wide variety for products made of natural materials like wreaths and garlands made with cones in different styles and colours...

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Restaurant re-opens after blaze at Alton Garden Centre

Alton Garden Centre had to close its Digby’s Restaurant after firefighters battled a blaze at the store on the night of Wednesday, December 7. The restaurant has since re-opened, serving a menu of hot drinks and light snacks, and the rest of the centre continued to be fully operational...

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GCA announces Christmas display competition winners

Brimsmore Gardens (GC) and Garsons Garden Centre Esher (DGC - above) have been announced as the national winners of the 2022 Garden Association’s annual Christmas competition...

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Notcutts officially opens new-look Brampton Garden Centre

Notcutts has been celebrating the official opening of its new-look Brampton Garden Centre at a community event. Since acquiring the garden centre from Frosts in August 2022, Notcutts has refreshed the look, introduced new gardening, homeware and gift ranges...

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STV continues price freeze on more than 250 products

Counter to overwhelming inflationary trends, STV is continuing to hold 2021 prices on more than 250 core products until the end of February 2023...

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Celebrating triple graduation from leadership scheme 

Commercial nursery, Johnsons of Whixley, has seen three key staff members graduate from its Rising Stars programme, which aims to provide development opportunities to boost the teams’ skillset and progression within the Yorkshire firm...

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Economist announced as key speaker at GCA conference
 

The Garden Centre Association has announced that leading economist Roger Martin-Fagg will be speaking at its 56th annual conference in Blackburn in 2023 (22-25 January)...

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Brimsmore Gardens wins national Christmas competition

Described by the judges as “a joy to visit and experience, with bags of character, atmosphere and terrific staff”, Brimsmore Gardens’ Christmas displays have scooped first prize in the Garden Centre Association’s national Christmas Competition...

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Show garden inspires gardeners at Notcutts garden centre

A new show garden is bringing creative planting ideas and inspiration to gardeners in Peterborough. Horticultural experts at Notcutts Garden Centre, on Ham Lane in Orton Waterville, have unveiled the garden at a community ribbon cutting event...

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How to raise funds for Greenfingers this Christmas
 

Whether you’re one to put your tree up in November or like to wait for the month of December to roll around, there is no doubt that the festive season is best known for the joy of giving gifts. But did you know that whilst buying for friends, family and colleagues you can also help raise much needed funds for the Greenfingers Charity?

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Houseplant care range Plantsmith stars in Oxford Street

Plantsmith, the multiple award winning Houseplant care range, has received another accolade, being featured in the John Lewis Oxford Street Christmas window displays...

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Colegrave Seabrook Foundation receives support from The Worshipful Company of Gardeners
 

The Colegrave Seabrook Foundation has received support from The Worshipful Company of Gardeners for their HortTech Award. This scholarship, worth up to £5,000, is designed to support work in developing cutting edge technologies in the field of horticulture...

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GCA members to vote for Associate Member of the Year

Members of the Garden Centre Association are being asked to vote for their Associate Member of the Year for 2022 – with the winner announced at the GCA’s annual conference in Blackburn in January...

The team at Farplants, who were voted Associate Member of the Year for 2019, with their trophy presented during the 2020 GCA conference, when members were last able to meet for an in person awards ceremony.

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Consumers divided over expected purchasing power

Nearly 30 percent of consumers expect to spend less on flowers and plants in the next six months. In contrast to a comparable survey conducted in May of this year, flower and plant buyers now also appear to be more pessimistic about their financial situation and are adapting their choices accordingly...

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Book your place in front of the garden media
 

The Garden Press Event, taking place on Tuesday 21 February 2023 at the Business Design Centre in London, provides an unrivalled opportunity for suppliers and garden industry companies to exhibit and showcase new products, themes, and stories to the garden media at the start of the gardening season...

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Gardena supports Manchester airport’s eco-garden contest

A group of pupils from Cheadle Catholic Infant & Junior School were crowned winners of Manchester Airport’s eco-garden competition at an event under the Concorde’s wings...

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Applications open for BBC Gardeners’ World Events Beautiful Borders 
 

Would you like to showcase your garden design talent and horticultural skills to thousands and thousands of gardeners, horticultural experts, media and influencers? Applications for the BBC Gardeners’ World Events 2023 Beautiful Borders competition are open until January 2023...

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Dobbies donates 300 Christmas trees to charities

Dobbies Garden Centres is currently donating 300 Christmas trees to charities, schools and community groups across the UK, as part of its Not Your Average Community campaign...

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Dobbies CEO interview in GTN's November GIMA Roll of Honour issue, read on-line here

GTN November 2022: GIMA Awards 2022 Roll of Honour Issue

 

  • Dobbies Tewkesbury opens – GTN Interview with CEO Graeme Jenkins
  • Judging is underway – GTN’s Greatest Christmas Awards update
  • A Greenfingers greeting from Woodmansterne
  • GIMA Awards 2022 Roll of Honour
  • Learning from each other on a HTA BIS Study Tour
  • Choice Marketing celebrate 20 years, Vitavia – a ‘way of life
  • Illumination Street 2022
  • LOFA Column – Making a difference together
  • HTA Column – Filling some big shoes! 
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