In This Issue
May sales boom sets us on course for 10% up on last year
Weeding, planting and pruning means it's all change at the top
It's a Gardeners Kitchen versus Quantil shootout
Record ‘Golds’ tally a tribute to growers, say RHS
Turning Chelsea delights into sales
Rolawn celebrate with Chelsea winners
Hozelock's Flexi Spray wins Chelsea Product of the Year
TV Gardener David Domoney’s search for Britain’s Best Street
Launch of The Greatest Awards 2013
Register your entry today and win Greatest Awards Party tickets
Tee off for the GIMA Golf Day and raise money for charity
Alexander Rose focus on Portofino collection
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Is there still a growing media peak to come
Put on a Chelsea Planteria Display now!
National Trust accused of using 'bully-boy' tactics over garden centre
Raking rated the most hated garden task
Fire blazes through garden centre
South Cumbria garden centre boss faces court trial
GTN Bestsellers - garden centre sales data every week
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
 
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May sales boom sets us on course for 10% up on last year


The boom of May sales continues despite the weather being not that great and the GTN Bestsellers All Products Index now shows a 6.7% increase on garden centre volume sales year on year...
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Weeding, planting and pruning means it's all change at the top
 
It’s all change at the top of the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products Top 50 this week as gardeners get really active in their gardens and the power of TV advertising kicks in...
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It's a Gardeners Kitchen versus Quantil shootout


This week's GTN Bestsellers Veg-2-Gro chart is dominated by two growers...Gardeners Kitchen and Quantil...
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Record ‘Golds’ tally a tribute to growers, say RHS
 
Her Majesty the Queen drops by on the Hillier exhibit
Her Majesty the Queen drops by on the Hillier exhibit
The Royal Horticultural Society has paid tribute to the growers who helped garden designers and pavilion exhibitors to a record 92 Gold Medals at this week’s Chelsea Flower
Show, despite the late spring.
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Turning Chelsea delights into sales


Chelsea 2013 was a horticultural delight – just as you’d expect after 100 years of practice, so there will be plenty of media coverage to stimulate more gardening activity. The trick is to turn that into garden centre visits and sales...
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Rolawn celebrate with Chelsea winners



Rolawn supplied products to 28 of the country’s leading garden designers and exhibitors at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show – including 10 gold medal winners, Best Show Garden and Best Fresh Garden...

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Hozelock's Flexi Spray wins Chelsea Product of the Year


The new Flexi Spray from Hozelock has won the prestigious RHS Chelsea Flower Show ‘Product of the Year’ 2013...
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TV Gardener David Domoney’s search for Britain’s Best Street


Cultivation Street is launching at the end of May to find Britain’s best turned out street. Whether you live on a terrace in Todmorden, or avenue in Abergavenny – TV gardener David Domoney wants to see your street and judge who has the best gardens, plants and green spaces in the whole of the UK...
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Launch of The Greatest Awards 2013
New award celebrates 100 years of the Chelsea Flower Show

In the RHS Chelsea Flower Show's Centenary Year, the search is on for garden centre planteria teams with a touch of gold...
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Register your entry today and win Greatest Awards Party tickets
 
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Tee off for the GIMA Golf Day and raise money for charity


Members of the gardening trade are working on their swings for the GIMA golf day at Staverton Park in Daventry, Northants, on June 6...and there's still time to enter a team and raise money for great causes...
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Alexander Rose focus on Portofino collection


A key product focus for Alexander Rose at this year’s SOLEX is the Portofino collection....
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