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The Benefits of Automatic Watering
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First week of July 24% up on 9-year average
GIMA judging complete – find out who wins on Nov 11
Sales Manager/Sales Agent to cover Southern Region of England
Environment Minister visits Dobbies Woodcote Green
Ever Given container ship leaves the Suez Canal 106 days late
Long fruitful summer for plant sales
Garden centre group supports local travel agency
First London little dobbies opens
Focus on reducing contamination in food and garden waste
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Seiont Nurseries partners with Joy of Plants
Zest to sponsor hot-air balloon
Cobra gives back to community by donating lawncare kit
Children call on nation to help ‘Save our Planet’
Cancer Research UK Legacy Garden wins Best in Show
Nicholas Marshall interview live on-line now
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Obituary: Colin Read, co-founder of Podington Garden Centre
New manager at Squire's Garden Centre in Chertsey
Ants, bees and slugs
Community gardeners set to join hall of heroes
Record demand for growing media
RECOUP Continue to crusade to improve plastics packaging recycling
Casual Dining reveals world-class line-up
Enter the prestigious Grower of the Year Awards
Wild Bird Care gains energy
Buckingham Palace Garden opens to visitors
The best of last week's
June sets new records, warm feelings for the future
Local garden centre decorates BBC set
YouGarden completes acquisition of Gardening Direct
Plant health agreement could turn £multi-billion horticulture industry into Brexit success story, claims HTA
The Petface Emporium – Showrooms Reinvented!
New garden centre for well-known Norwegian Hageland
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Barton Grange Christmas 2020 - Exclusive GTN Xtra Photo Tour
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First week of July 24% up on 9-year average

 

Garden centre sales volumes, as measured in the GTN Bestsellers Epos data, nearly got back to parity with last year for the first week if July, missing by only 2%.

 

Compared to the average for the same week every year from 2011 to 2019 sales were 24% up, keeping up with our suggestion there is at least a quarter more gardening going on this summer.

 

Now, with the Met Office long range forecast saying “there is a greater chance of warmer and drier than average conditions overall” next week, and then for the rest of July and August “there is a chance of conditions being warmer and drier than average overall” we could be in for a bumper summer as people make the most of their outdoor spaces.

 

GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week in 2020: week 27.

  • Garden Products Top 50 – down 22%
  • Growing Media Top 50 – down 16%
  • Veg 2 Gro Top 50 – down 64%
  • Wild Bird & Wildlife Care Top 50 – down 14%

 

GTN Bestsellers All Sales volumes compared to the same week in 2020: week 27.

  • All Plants with Barcode index – down 2%
  • All Items with Barcode index – down 2%

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