If it’s the smoke you dislike then the ALL NEW Crop Candle Fire Pit is the perfect solution to warm up your evenings and increasing outdoor social events...

After two weeks trading affected by the nationwide petrol availability problems, garden centre trading got back to normal last week. And that was back to the ‘new normal’ with sales 18% up on 2019 levels...

Customers got back into plant buying mode last week with sales matching 2020 levels for the first week of October and were 38% up on 2019 levels...

With 55% of Latvia covered in forest, producing sustainable firewood comes naturally to Latvian manufacturer, Dizmezs...

Poundbury Gardens near Dorchester has donated many plants, bulbs and bags of compost to Craig’s Courtyard, a planting project taking shape at Cerne Abbas Surgery in memory of the late Dr Craig Wakeham, who led the practice for 30 years before dying from COVID-19 in April 2020...

A trial scheme for the collection of used compost packaging will see the material turned into recycled plastic furniture from Plaswood, a Berry Global product...

Dalefoot Composts has won the Sustainability and Environmental Impact Award at the Rural Business Awards North for its pioneering work restoring damaged peatlands as well as its peat-free compost making...

In this Glee Review issue of GTN:

• Vitax increases range and capacity
• Remembering Eddie Topping MBE
• Capturing the essence of Autumn at Chelsea
• Get Grilling with Traeger
• Glee 2021 – a special return
• Glee Buyers Power List
• Glee New Product Awards
• Sustainability Award – Southern Trident
• Glee 2021 Gallery
• Floral Thursday for Greenfingers Charity
• GTN Bestsellers Subscription Offer
• GTN Bestsellers – September garden centre sales analysis and charts
• Garden Centre Books
• HTA Column – Tales of the unexpected
• GIMA Column – The future is looking bright.

Following a year of uncertainty and disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Notcutts has now resumed their programme of garden centre improvements and redevelopments. The 2020/21 financial year ending in February saw Notcutts Group Ltd make capital improvements of just £835k, which was largely for completion works on restaurant projects in Ditchling (East Sussex) and Woodbridge (Suffolk), compared to £9.2m in the previous year...

The Horticultural Trades Association has called for an extension to the Seasonal Workers Pilot Scheme (SWP) to include plant and tree growers to support the industry in the short term, as longer-term solutions to the labour crisis in the sector are developed...

A new world record time for running the 2021 Virgin Money London Marathon in wellington boots has been set by Peter Butler-Jones, who completed the epic dash wearing Leon Boots’ lightweight unisex Explorer boots in aid of mental health charity, Mind.

Prompted by the discussion regarding the levy for generic promotion should still be collected by Royal FloraHolland, the Flower Council of Holland has decided to carry out consumer research in order to demonstrate the effect of generic promotion...

Dobbies has announced 69 winners across the UK for Helping Your Community Grow, who will all receive support from their local store. Noadswood School Community from Cadnam received the most votes out of all 69 projects taking the title of National Winner...

Johnsons has re-launched its website johnsons-seeds.com to provide more information and advice to gardening consumers and to direct them to their local garden retailer...