In This Issue
Amazing August sales
Don’t miss out – registration for Glee 2021 now live!
The Alternative Hose
Come and see a stand full of new ideas at Glee!
Exciting opportunity at Creative Products
Dobbies announces ‘Not Your Average Gardener’ award winners
GCA announces regional awards meetings
Torrential rainfall delays autumn bulb harvest
Dobbies launches nationwide votes for community garden funding
Time to adjust to online sales trend says furniture supplier EKJU
Why does Hobby & Handmade have the WoW Factor? Find out at Glee
Ecommerce ready garden furniture from EKJU
Autumn Fair launches official app
Darlac helps Chelsea Pensioners do a spot of gardening
Smart LEDs add touch of brilliance to Elho's pure range of pots
Chelsea garden promotes GYO and stylish new Muck Boot range
Yule love this!
Antony Harker to launch Altico at Glee - Read GTN's August issue on-line now
Video, video. Watch the SOLEX SUN video showreel from SOLEX On-Line 2021
Get your copy of GTN Xtra
GCA adds 'poisonous plants' module to e-learning system
RHS and Hug Rug partner on a range of eco-friendly, British-made mats
No Plantarium…but new plant awards go ahead at GROEN-Direkt trade show
Beverley wins week-end beak for 2 in SOLEX ONLINE draw
SOLEX 2021 On-Line remains open for buyers looking for next seasons bestsellers
The best of last week's
Bill Bickerdike, one of "the gang", has died
T&M for sale with up to £200m price tag say city sources
Impact of Brexit sees horticultural business export almost 40% fewer plants to EU markets so far this year
Last chance to nominate the best buyers of the past eighteen months?
August starts with sales uplift!
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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RECOUP highlights need for plastics films and flexibles recycling solutions
Situations Vacant
Exciting opportunity at Creative Products
 

This is an exciting opportunity to join the team at Creative Products, who are seeking a hard-working, dedicated full time merchandiser/area representative to look after the company's accounts across London, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Surrey....

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Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
 

Every week GTN receives and analyses epos data from a number of UK garden centres to produce the GTN Bestsellers charts...

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Amazing August sales

Garden Centre sales keep bucking “normal” trends this summer with sales volumes reported in the GTN Bestsellers aggregated garden centre Epos data staying at the high level of the first week in August when normally we’d all be expecting sales to be tailing off before the start of an increase for Autumn gardening...

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Don’t miss out – registration for Glee 2021 now live!

Online registration for Glee (12th – 14th September, NEC Birmingham) is now live, enabling buyers and retailers to get online and book their free ticket to the first in-person garden trade exhibition anywhere in Europe within the last 18 months...

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The Alternative Hose
GTN Xtra Promotion

 

 

Today’s gardeners are looking to get more out of their garden hose; from length to kink-resistance and durability, as well as manoeuvrability and ease of storage. The solution is Hozelock’s Tuffhoze...

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Come and see a stand full of new ideas at Glee!
GTN Xtra Promotion

After a fantastic GLEE 2019, the team at Treadstone Products is looking forward to being back at the NEC this September...

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Exciting opportunity at Creative Products
 

This is an exciting opportunity to join the team at Creative Products, who are seeking a hard-working, dedicated full time merchandiser/area representative to look after the company's accounts across London, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Surrey....

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Dobbies announces ‘Not Your Average Gardener’ award winners

Dobbies has announced the winners of its first-ever ‘Not Your Average Gardener’ awards.  With the aim to find the best and most dedicated gardeners from across the UK, the awards showcase those with creativity, commitment and passion in gardening, the 2021 Not Your Average Gardener winners are...

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GCA announces regional awards meetings

Garden Centre Association members will find out who has come out on top in its annual inspections this year at regional award meetings taking place over the week ahead...

 

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Torrential rainfall delays autumn bulb harvest

Taylors Bulbs are gearing up for what promises to be a busy season with high consumer demand for spring flowering bulbs. But, with the dual impacts of a cold, dry spring giving a late growing cycle and then heavy rain just before harvest was due to begin, the bulb harvesting programme is currently running two weeks behind what would be considered a normal season...

 

 

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Dobbies launches nationwide votes for community garden funding

Residents in communities across the UK are being asked to vote for their favourite local community gardening project to receive support from Dobbies, the UK’s largest garden centre retailer...

 

 

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Time to adjust to online sales trend says furniture supplier EKJU

Garden furniture manufacturer EKJU is offering a range of home delivery-ready products to help retailers with online sales as well as traditional in-store sales...

 

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Why does Hobby & Handmade have the WoW Factor? Find out at Glee
Ahead of a range launch, Sammy Holman, managing director of gifts company Hobby & Handmade, tells us why his company sets out to make a life-changing difference to people suffering from autism and those with learning difficulties.
 

When the pandemic hit, it rocked all our lives - but for some people, life was already a challenge before coronavirus. Enter Hobby and Handmade, a company dedicated to giving them a helping hand while supplying retailers with a refreshingly different product range...

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Ecommerce ready garden furniture from EKJU

Manufacturer of sustainable Garden Furniture, EKJU is now offering a range of products to help retailers with their online sales, as well as providing stock for traditional in-store sales. The Ecommerce range is packaged ready for home delivery meaning they can supply the same quality EKJU products already prepared for customer home deliveries...

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Autumn Fair launches official app
NEC Birmingham 5-8 September

Autumn Fair opens in two weeks’ time, offering this year’s most spectacular opportunity for retailers to see so many new and exclusive Gift brands, discover the hottest trends, and do business in person. There is also a new official app...

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Darlac helps Chelsea Pensioners do a spot of gardening

 

 

 

 

 

Darlac has donated tools worth more than £1,300 to the Chelsea Pensioners for a summer programme that encourages veterans at The Royal Hospital Chelsea to enjoy a spot of gardening...

 

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Smart LEDs add touch of brilliance to Elho's pure range of pots

Plant pot producer elho, has expanded the possibilities of technology at home with its range of illuminated plant pots that can be controlled remotely through its app...

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Chelsea garden promotes GYO and stylish new Muck Boot range

The Original Muck Boot Company and My Little Allotment have partnered to create a unique garden at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show that focuses on the importance of growing your own plants, vegetables and the therapeutic benefit of gardening...

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Yule love this!

Smart’s band of Singing Elves, a.k.a. The Wrappers, are already despatching seasonal deliveries to the UK’s garden centres…and, as in previous years, it is impossible to miss their distinctive pallet-wraps...

 

 

 

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Antony Harker to launch Altico at Glee - Read GTN's August issue on-line now
 

In this issue of news and information for garden centre professionals:

  • Patio Black Spot - Bloomin Marvellous on Patios.
  • Antony Harker launches Altico at Glee.
  • Made to measure merchandising from Primeur.
  • Meadow View Stone Delivers.
  • Miss Marple Afternoon Tea – Alan Roper’s new dining concept.
  • Blue Diamond Springfields, GTN Photo Tour.    
  • Downtown Grantham, GTN Photo Tour.
  • Glee 2021 is ready to refuel retail.
  • HTA Column – Job for life?
  • LOFA Member profile – Traeger.
  • GIMA Column – A Celebration of newness.
Read GTN's August 2021 Issue on-line here
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Video, video. Watch the SOLEX SUN video showreel from SOLEX On-Line 2021

As there will now be a break with no live football on TV until Sunday, it's coming home, how about gorging yourself on a smörgåsbord board of SOLEX videos.  Here's the SOLEX SUN video showreel...

Watch videos from SOLEX 2021 On-Line "Exhibitors
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