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HTA Study Tour is a Dutch Sensation
The HTA Study Tour to Holland last week was a huge success with inspirational visits to Dutch garden centres and the unique Garden Retail Experience event...
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Westland/GCA Rising Stars 2016 deadline extended
There have been so many entries right up to the end of the deadline announced at GCA Conference that its been extended until midnight on Wednesday 24th February...
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Garden Retail Experience - Netherlands 2016 Briers go Dutch!
Briers were the sole UK Company exhibiting as part of the Garden Retail Experience in Holland last week...
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Closed garden centre site could be turned into housing
The site of the recently closed Ingatestone Garden Centre in Essex could be sold off to developers to provide 60 homes under the Brentwood Draft Local Plan. Last week GTN Xtra carried a story in which the owner claimed he could not afford to keep the doors open...
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Colour and rotation are key ingredients
 Colour and stock rotation were the factors that helped Cowells’ Sam Clark become a finalist in the Westland Rising Stars at the GCA Conference last month...
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Sales at garden centres bursting out all over
Garden centre sales in the second week of February saw a timely boost, up 7% on last year, according to EPoS data provided for GTN Bestsellers. Highlights were another good week for growing media sales and Veg-2-Grow plants, indicating plenty of gardening activity for the year ahead.
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Flower Show Forum will sow seeds of change for gardening clubs around the UK
Representatives from the Royal Horticultural Society’s Affiliated Societies team, Britain’s largest network of gardening clubs and horticultural societies, will join a Flower Show Forum at Castle Gardens in Sherborne, Dorset on Thursday, March 17 from 2pm-4pm...
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Wyevale Garden Centres raise record-breaking donations for community hospice
Christmas grottos at Birchencliffe and Pennine, both Wyevale Garden Centres, have raised a record-breaking £10,656 for Kirkwood Hospice over the festive period, providing a welcome New-Year boost to the charity’s fundraising efforts.
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
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Snack dispensers ideal for garden centres, says firm
Cranberry Enterprise, one of the UK’s leading specialist manufacturers of dried fruit and nut snacks, is to launch its own “Twist & Taste” dispenser system to the UK market. According to the company, the new self-serve dispensers are suitable for garden centres...
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New Board appointment for Blue Diamond
Blue Diamond has appointed Patricia Alford-Burnett, the former CEO of The White Company, as a non-executive director...
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Sales of garden products slow to pick up
Volumes for the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products chart are slightly ahead of the same week last year but are still slow to pick up this year. The highest climber is Brintons Patio Magic (2.5 litres)...
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Shallots and veg seeds selling well
Veg-2-Gro sales have grown slightly on the previous week with gardeners buying shallots and packets of seeds in good numbers ahead of the sowing season...
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Growing media sales are the star performers
Growing media sales have shot back up and are way ahead of the same week in 2015 (+88.4%) and 2014 (+121.4%)...
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Long Service Award celebrations at Forest Garden
Forest Garden, a company which prides in offering its staff the opportunity to develop a long term career, has handed several members of staff with Long Serve Awards...
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Nurseries certified for Environmental Management
Staff at Wyevale Nurseries in Hereford are celebrating this month after being awarded with a certificate of registration for the Environmental Management System – ISO 14001.
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MEP's keynote speech to plant-health conference
West Midlands MEP Anthea McIntyre delivered the keynote speech on Wednesday at a national conference on plant health organised by the Horticultural Trades Association...
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Buttacup partners with Buglife to promote invertebrate sustainability
The charity devoted to the protection of all invertebrates, Buglife, has teamed up with Buttacup, as a partnership, to work together to encourage bug populations and prevent extinction...
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Allensmore increase their creative team with new appointments
Following another strong year of Added Value products sales growth in 2015, leading plant producers, Allensmore Nurseries have announced the appointment of two new members to their creative team...
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APL Avenue at BBC Gardeners’ World Live winners announced
Last year, the APL launched a competition in conjunction with BBC Gardeners’ World Live to give the opportunity for Contractors and Designers to feature five gardens, which are inspirational, aspirational and relatable, at BBC Gardeners’ World Live 2016...
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Pictures from The Greatest Christmas Gold-winning Teams
Garden centre teams excelled with their Christmas displays in 2015. Below we reveal galleries from the gold-winning teams. The galleries are sponsored by Kaemingk...
Brookside Garden Centre
Winners of both The Greatest Christmas Garden Team and The Greatest Grotto Team...
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Haskins West End
Haskins West End picked up the gold award in The Greatest Festive Plants Team category...
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Hillmount Garden Centre
The Greatest Christmas Sizzle was won by Hillmount Garden Centre...
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Mains of Drum
Mains of Drum were winners of The Greatest Festive Catering Team...
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Premier Decorations
The Greatest Christmas Supplier gold went to Premier Decorations...
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Bents and Le Friquet
Golds in The Greatest Pet Christmas Team category have been won by Bents Garden & Home and Le Friquet Garden Centre...
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Silverbirch (Small Garden Centre Gold)
Silverbirch won gold in small garden centre category of The Greatest Christmas Display Team...
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Old Railway Line (Mid-sized Garden Centre Gold)
Old Railway Line Garden Centre won gold in mid-sized garden centre category of The Greatest Christmas Display Team...
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Barton Grange (Large Garden Centre Gold)
Barton Grange Garden Centre won gold in large garden centre category of The Greatest Christmas Display Team...
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Le Friquet (Group Garden Centre Gold)
Le Friquet won gold in group garden centre category of The Greatest Christmas Display Team...
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The casual dining sector is big business in the UK and next week it’s set to get even bigger, when Casual Dining returns to the Business Design Centre in Islington, London, on 24-25 February.
