Planning permission has now been granted, so Perrywood can now move ahead with their £8-10m investment in an inspirational new Garden Centre at their existing site in Newton Road, Sudbury. Existing buildings will be repurposed with the potential to be leased out to other rural businesses and organisations...

Mr Fothergill’s Seeds announces a new partnership with Italian seed brand, Franchi Sementi and UK based Italian goods supplier, Seeds of Italy for the coming 2022 gardening season...

Marking the return of in-person events, the 11th annual GIMA Charity Golf Day was a fun-filled day of friendly competition, reunions, networking, fundraising, and glorious summer sunshine...

The Zest 4 Leisure team was crowned 2021 Golf Day champions with 96 points.

Summer 2021 sales are bucking the trends of past years. Usually, sales start falling during the first week of June but this year the reverse has happened with sales increasing to the highest volume sales level of the year and almost matching the post Lockdown#1 closure peak of 2020...

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales returned to Rainbarrow Farm on Wednesday to formally open the next exciting development that will contribute further to the site's overall sustainability. He originally opened the UK's first commercial biomethane anaerobic digestor (AD) plant on the site in October 2012...

Plant sales in the last two weeks have been enormous, with last week’s plant volumes in the GTN Bestsellers Epos data beating the first week of June 2020 by an incredible 38%...

Squire’s Garden Centres celebrates its 85^th Anniversary this year. The company was incorporated on the 8^th July 1936 and the original certificate of incorporation, though faded over time, still hangs on the boardroom wall alongside the first handwritten bank statement. Sarah Squire is now Chairman, and she tells us a bit about the changes in gardening and garden centres over the last 85 years.

A new name in wellington boots is helping to drive year-round sales, whilst also showcasing new material innovation to mix up the gardener’s favourite footwear category. Introducing Leon Boots Co Ltd – the name behind the all-new ‘revolutionary’ ULTRALIGHT garden ankle boot, the lightest and most comfortable wellington boot to ever hit the UK market...

Thousands of keen gardeners headed to the brand-new BBC Gardeners’ World Spring Fair last bank holiday weekend. The beautiful grounds of Beaulieu in Hampshire were the stunning backdrop to the latest event from Immediate Live, which was officially opened by Beaulieu’s Lord Montagu with BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine editors Lucy Hall and Kevin Smith....

Since launching in May, the Spring & Autumn Fair Online Marketplace has seen astonishing growth and response with the first trade taking pace within 48 hours of going live...

Gardeners and pond lovers are being offered the chance to create an attractive, easy to maintain and cost-effective solar-powered water feature or fountain without the need of electrical cables...

Leaders from the horticulture sector have come together to write to the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) backing the principles of the recently announced Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) consultation on packaging, but tempered by concerns around the short timescales and lack of detail. If introduced, the scheme would see packaging producers liable for the full cost of managing packaging once it becomes waste...

Stewarts Garden Centres are nearing completion of a £3 million agritech glasshouse and education facility at Broomhill, made possible thanks to funding from Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and Low Carbon Dorset...

Farplants Garden your way to Wellbeing range is now heading to UK garden centres. The launch of the range was impacted by last year’s lockdown restrictions but can now make its debut in 2021. The range has been carefully crafted to promote plants that can give a mood boost and create a sense experience...

A garden, originally intended to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Florence Nightingale in 2020, will be built by award-winning landscape company Bowles & Wyer and unveiled at RHS Chelsea 2021 to celebrate the importance of nursing in the 21st century...

Whartons has unveiled a genuine innovation in the world of roses called Zepeti (Meibenbino). At its peak it looks quite unreal, a mass of fire engine-red blooms over neat glossy foliage. This is one for the urban or starter gardener and anyone with limited space...

Choosing the right food and drink packaging for your garden centre catering operation adds value for your customers while building your brand’s reputation. Tri-Star’s range of stackable quick-serve foodservice packaging is not only convenient, hygienic and fit for purpose, but also easy to store and use, therefore speeding up service...