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Join in #FloralFriday today, celebrate re-opening and say thank you!
Orderly queues form as garden centres in England re-open
“Stay Alert” - make sure your customers and staff have a safe and enjoyable garden centre experience
Making garden centres friendly, safe and accessible again
Green light for garden centres to re-open on Wednesday in England - UPDATED - Comment from James Barnes at HTA and Alan Titchmarsh MBE
Dobbies’ Swansea reopened
Wales - Monday, England - Wednesday or June 1st?, Scotland and Northern Ireland?
St Peters staff in tears after council serves Prohibition Notice
Getting ready for business - feedback from Coolings, Planters, The Gardens Group, Blue Diamond, Green Pastures, Fron Goch and more
GrowNation Secures Free Social Distancing Help and Advice for Garden Centres
It was a Red, White and Blue #FloralFriday
Reopening your retail store: Step two – sanitation & portable hand washing/sanitisation stations
RHS Chelsea Garden Product of the Year to be judged during Virtual RHS Chelsea
GrowNation and Industry Partners Provide Click & Collect to Garden Centres
Violinist Rosanne Philippens embraces the sun in Keukenhof
Promising Digitalis Panther available now
Fiskars’ annual Happiness and Wellbeing Study
Free use of 16 different Covid-19 safety measure/social distancing posters
New online garden retailer Lockdown Gardener launches for home delivery
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We need centres re-opened, says Sun legend Peter Seabrook
Tricia Cox co-founder of Glendoick Garden Centre dies
Safe Trading Guidance for all garden centres published by HTA
Reopening your retail store: Step one - signage & screening
James Stamp to the rescue
Record Number of Suppliers and Garden Centres Spread a little Floral Cheer on #FloralFriday
Garden Centre Photo Tours
Haskins Snowhill re-opens after £15m re-vamp
Pets Corner in garden centres re-opened
Dobbies’ podcast explores gardening for beginners
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Tricia Cox co-founder of Glendoick Garden Centre dies

Tricia Cox (née Sherrard), founder/owner of Glendoick Garden Centre with her husband Peter Cox, died peacefully at Glendoick on 2nd May 2020.

 

Born in Cork, Ireland in 1933 she was educated in Ireland and England, studying horticulture and running an apple orchard in Douglas, Cork. Her uncle, Professor Geo Sherrard, was a well-known figure in Irish horticulture and the family home at Maryborough House had a collection of rhododendrons, which brought Tricia to Glendoick in the early 1960s, in search of plants and advice. Here, she met her husband to be Peter Cox, who ran the Glendoick Nursery with his father Euan. Tricia married Peter and moved to Scotland 1963, and their sons Kenneth (1964) and Raymond (1966), completed the family. 

 

In the early 1970s, Peter and Tricia began to research the idea of opening one of Scotland’s first garden centres and in 1973 Glendoick Garden Centre opened with a tiny shop, which has expanded over the years.   Tricia ran the garden centre for the next 20 years, alongside a career advising and designing gardens all over eastern Scotland.

 

Tricia was a founder member of the Leisuregrow Garden Centre buying group and later became its chairperson. She accompanied husband Peter on several plant hunting expeditions to India (1965), China (1990), Chile (1996) and India (2004). Semi-retiring in the late 1980s, handing over to her son Kenneth, Tricia carried on designing gardens including the Pagoda Garden at Glendoick Garden Centre.

 

She is survived by her husband Peter, brothers Ken and Anthony, sons Kenneth and Raymond and 5 grandchildren.

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