In This Issue
Barton Grange's £6m leisure complex gets the go-ahead
Greenhouse at Loch Lomond GC to grow veg for foodbank
spoga+gafa promises to deliver top international innovation show
Stewarts set to expand following £11m in funding from Santander
Plant sales are the greatest for years
‘Must buy’ plants are key to success
Salvia Love & Wishes takes Best in Show title at New Plant Awards
Double success for Salvia Love & Wishes at HTA National Plant Show
TV presenter launches the ‘Time to Live’ Breast Cancer Now rose
Key Essentials take home Best ‘Plantie’
The Greatest Plant Retailing Teams are at Scotsdales, Cowells and The Old Railway Line
Hillier Nurseries voted The Greatest Plant Supplier of the Year
Coolings are the masters of linked sales in the planteria, closely followed by Percy Throwers Wyevale, Van Hage Great Amwell and Cowells
Bents are "Top of the Pots"
Fron Goch scoop The Greatest Plant Advice Team Gold
The Greatest Outdoor Living Sales gold winners to be presented at spoga+gafa
HTA Futures is the venue for The Greatest Garden Centre Team Awards 2015
Garden Centre Manager - South London - Newly Developed Site
Plantarea Manager - Hertfordshire - Group Centre
Assistant Commercial E-Commerce Manager - Worcestershire
Landscape Project Manager - East of England
Next plans £6m home and garden store in Plymouth
Squire’s Garden Centres grow their own
Director to face trial over garden centre deaths
New Glee website provides 365 resource
Rufus Hound to host GIMA Awards
Slugs and snails products on the move
Veg-2-Gro chart reveals variety of bestsellers
Farmyard manure is still a top seller
Crest Garden delivers autumn value
Orchids raise £1,000 for students
Drive up sales: ‘Grow to Show’ with Baby Bio Vitality
New seeds in a tin from Johnsons
Wyevale Nurseries win Best Plant Display Award at HTA National Plant Show
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Buy your subscription to GTN Bestsellers
All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
Catering Design Group helps Raemoir with restaurant makeover
Nordic Organic Food Fair opens visitor registration for 2015
Northampton garden centre opens Garden Kitchen restaurant
Top 10 do’s & don’ts to optimise catering in a garden retail environment
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Drive up sales: ‘Grow to Show’ with Baby Bio Vitality

Retailers can drive up sales by showing gardeners how to ‘grow to show’ with Baby Bio Vitality.  

“Retailers can create an in-store display focused on the Baby Bio® Vitality 2-step feeding programme that shows gardeners how to ‘grow to show’.  It’s a great way to drive up fertiliser sales,” explained Bayer Garden Product Manager, Alison Mulvaney.   

“County and village shows are now only a few weeks away.  Gardeners have been carefully nurturing their prized vegetables and flowering plants for a few months.  Garden centres that show customers how to grow award winning fruit, vegetables and flowers with Top Taste or Top Bloom will see sales increase.”

The Baby Bio Vitality range combines bio-stimulants and nutrients in one product.  Designed to optimise a plant’s development, this mix creates the Activator Effect, unleashing nature’s full potential by ensuring the plant absorbs the right nutrients at the right time in its life cycle.  

For accelerated, balanced growth gardeners should use Top Growth Flowers for plants and flowers or Top Growth Edibles for fruit and vegetables from the beginning of the growing season.  As the flowers begin to form adding Top Bloom to the feeding regime will result in long lasting, bright petals.  Top Taste added to the feeding regime as the fruit and vegetables begin to form will improve ripening and flavour.   

The Baby Bio Vitality Range

Top Growth Flowers encourages fast and balanced growth and plants fed with it produce up to 70% more flowers*.  

Top Bloom, has a special blend of micronutrients that produces bright, colourful and long lasting blooms with thick petals and a more uniform colour*. 

Top Growth Edibles encourages fast and balanced growth.  In Bayer’s own trials yields were up to 35% higher than crops fed with standard NPK fertilisers.

Top Taste is specifically formulated to improve ripening, produce better flavoured, nourishing vegetables and sweeter, tastier fruit**. 

Top Defence is perfect for those moments in the season when your plants need a little extra boost.  With preventative and curative actions and usable indoors and out, Top Defence keeps plants in tip top condition, guarding against the negative effects of cold, drought and transplanting. 

* compared to not feeding.

** compared to feeding with a standard NPK formula.  

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