In This Issue
Blue Diamond scoop the Peoples Choice award at Chelsea
Floralsilk’s stunning showroom is a must-see part of your buying journey
Meadow View Stones Case Study – Planters Brookfields
Handy announces its largest ever garden machinery dealer event: Handy LIVE 2024
The Octavia Hill Garden by Blue Diamond with the National Trust wins coveted People’s Choice Award
Garden centre sales poised for recovery
Clothing & catering serve up good GCA BoT figures in April
Perrywood Garden Centre gets expansion back on track
Burgon & Ball wins four stars at Chelsea
HTA webinar highlights demand for CITES rules reform for plant trade
Yorkshire Children's Charity is named Garden Centre Group's Charity of the Year
The Greenfingers Wing Walk is back
Andrew Baker appointed MD of Zest as Steve Morgan becomes Chair
50 years of Glee: Vote now for your half-century champions!
LifestyleGarden gets set for SOLEX 2024
Celebrating National Children’s Gardening Week
GARDENA unveils interactive Chelsea Flower Show Garden
How Apta’s Planting Bench is changing the face of garden pot retailing
Registration is live for Autumn Fair
STIGA's handheld battery pruner wins renowned award
Summer Showrooms Directory and Plant Sales Vox-Pop in GTN's May issue, read on-line here
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London blooms with Botanical Shakespeare
QVC UK to sponsor Beautiful Borders at BBC Gardeners’ World Live
Grower of the Year Awards 2024 now open for entries
Three Green Cities Shortlisted for the AIPH Youth Award 2024
The best of last week's
Find out who won what as RHS medals are revealed
Taylors Bulbs awarded 31st gold medal
Ornamental cherry wins RHS Chelsea Plant of the Year
Self-watering pot cover wins Sustainable Garden Product of the Year
Peter Beales Roses scoops its 29th Chelsea gold
Flood Re unveils the Flood Resilient Garden
'Let’s aspire to fantastic urban spaces'
David Austin reveals Emma Bridgewater English shrub rose
World Child Cancer Nurturing Garden receives first RHS Environmental Innovation Award
HTA and APL members bring home top awards
SOLEX Exhibition to kick off festivities with Awards Ceremony and Afterparty
Whisk out your tongs: SOLEX's Fire Food & Outdoor Living Evening returns for its second sizzling year
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Blue Diamond scoop the Peoples Choice award at Chelsea

 

As the National Trust and Blue Diamond Octavia Hill Garden, designed by Anne-Marie Powell and the Blue Diamond Team, were presented with the Peoples Choice Award at Chelsea Flower show on Friday, Alan Roper spoke to GTN Xtra about winning the biggest accolade of the show...

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Floralsilk’s stunning showroom is a must-see part of your buying journey
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The leading destination for buyers looking for exceptional Floral, Autumn and Christmas ranges, Floralsilk’s showroom has something to meet even the most discerning buyer’s requirements...

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Meadow View Stones Case Study – Planters Brookfields
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The Planters Group have been longstanding stockists of Meadow View Stones decorative aggregates and paving at their Tamworth, Bretby and Garden King stores...

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Handy announces its largest ever garden machinery dealer event: Handy LIVE 2024
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British garden machinery company Handy will be showcasing its extensive product ranges and highlighting its support for dealers in its biggest-ever garden machinery event, Handy LIVE 2024, which will be held at the prestigious Moulton Grange Country Estate in Northamptonshire on Thursday 5th September...

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The Octavia Hill Garden by Blue Diamond with the National Trust wins coveted People’s Choice Award

The Octavia Hill Garden by Blue Diamond with the National Trust has been awarded The People’s Choice Award at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024...

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Garden centre sales poised for recovery

As the RHS Chelsea Flower Show captured the nation's attention, the Horticultural Trades Association released its Market Update for May, reflecting on the performance of garden centres in April 2024...

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Clothing & catering serve up good GCA BoT figures in April
 

The Garden Centre Association’s Barometer of Trade for April shows clothing and catering leading the way when compared to the same month last year...

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Perrywood Garden Centre gets expansion back on track

The expansion of Perrywood Garden Centre is back on track, after amended plans to make the development more feasible were approved...

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Burgon & Ball wins four stars at Chelsea

Burgon & Ball, creator of beautiful garden tools since 1730, has won four stars from the Royal Horticultural Society for its stand at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024

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HTA webinar highlights demand for CITES rules reform for plant trade
 

The Horticultural Trades Association hosted a webinar on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in collaboration with APHA, Defra, and Border Force officials...

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Yorkshire Children's Charity is named Garden Centre Group's Charity of the Year

The Yorkshire Garden Centres group has announced that Yorkshire Children's Charity will be its Charity of the Year for 2024 following a unanimous team vote...

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The Greenfingers Wing Walk is back

To date, 15 brave souls have strapped themselves atop a biplane to swoop across the Cotswold countryside in aid of the Greenfingers Charity. Now, with 3rd September earmarked for the 2024 Greenfingers Wing Walk, the charity is issuing a rallying call to the industry not to miss out on the chance to wing walk into the Greenfingers Hall of Fame!

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Andrew Baker appointed MD of Zest as Steve Morgan becomes Chair

Andrew Baker, the former Financial Director of timber outdoor decorative structures, garden furniture and GYO specialist Zest, has been appointed as the new Managing Director, and Steve Morgan will serve as the company Chairman...

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SOLEX Exhibition to kick off festivities with Awards Ceremony and Afterparty
SOLEX Afterparty | Tuesday 9 July | 1830 -2230 | Hilton Metropole | NEC, Birmingham

SOLEX Exhibition, the premier event that gathers the best and brightest of the outdoor leisure industry, has announced an Awards Ceremony & Afterparty to kick off the excitement of the summer event on the Tuesday 9 July. Marking its 16th year, SOLEX Exhibition has curated a night of celebration, networking, and a thrilling football-themed evening to coincide with the highly anticipated UEFA Euro 2024 semi-finals...

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Whisk out your tongs: SOLEX's Fire Food & Outdoor Living Evening returns for its second sizzling year
Fire Food & Outdoor Living Event | Wednesday 10 July | 1800 -2000 | Hall 5 | NEC, Birmingham

Ready your grills, sharpen your knives, and stoke the fires! SOLEX Exhibition 2024 is about to welcome back the crowd-pleasing, taste-bud-teasing Fire Food and Outdoor Living Evening incorporating our BBQ Competition, which is set to light up the evening with charm and flavour...

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50 years of Glee: Vote now for your half-century champions!
 

As the Glee exhibition gets set to celebrate half a century at the heart of the garden retail sector, the organising team is looking for your input. In the past 50 years, Glee has seen thousands of exhibitors pass through its doors, with hundreds of thousands of new products launched since the show’s humble beginnings in 1974. To celebrate the newness and passion that have shaped Glee and the broader garden centre market during this time, the hunt is now on to find the people and product that have driven the most change over the past five decades...

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LifestyleGarden gets set for SOLEX 2024

As outdoor leisure buyers get ready to secure 2025 stock at the forthcoming SOLEX exhibition, the team at LifestyleGarden – the brand behind ground-breaking material innovation and a commitment to bringing to market responsible furniture solutions – is making final preparations for what is set to be its busiest show yet!

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Celebrating National Children’s Gardening Week

Garden retailers across the UK have lined up an exciting series of events for National Children’s Gardening Week to encourage families out into the garden and to Grow with Peter Rabbit this May half term from 25 May to 2 June 2024.  

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GARDENA unveils interactive Chelsea Flower Show Garden

GARDENA unveiled its interactive 2024 Chelsea Flower Show Garden, which focuses on growth and resilience, showcasing the importance of native planting, water harvesting and clever watering solutions.

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How Apta’s Planting Bench is changing the face of garden pot retailing
 

The team at Apta has introduced the groundbreaking Apta Planting Bench, poised to revolutionise retail spaces this season...

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Registration is live for Autumn Fair

Registration is now live for Autumn Fair, the UK’s largest seasonal showcase for Home, Gift & Fashion with over 800 brands confirmed and ready to sell. The show, which takes place on the 1st – 4th September at NEC Birmingham, has also announced that over 25% of the exhibitor line-up is new..

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STIGA's handheld battery pruner wins renowned award

The STIGA team have done it again! Thanks to their green-fingered designers, the garden tool manufacturer is celebrating a WIN with these rather nifty and jolly addictive, SC 100e Kit Cordless pruning shears! 

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Summer Showrooms Directory and Plant Sales Vox-Pop in GTN's May issue, read on-line here

GTN May 2024 - Summer Showroom Directory - In this issue:

  • AMES Tools – the success story so far
  • One to watch – GTN visits the new Rutland Nursery
  • Altico celebrates 3 years
  • Getting wise with wool - gardening products made from sheep’s wool
  • On your marks – GTN’s guide to this summer’s shows
  • SOLEX – outdoor living at its best
  • Summer Showroom Directory – GTN’s guide to supplier showrooms open for business this summer
  • STV on the road
  • Creativity with Floralsilk
  • Smart’s showroom visit
  • Planteria Vox-Pops from: Gates, Newquay, Cooks, Bosworths, Coblands, Carpenters, Highfields, Pughs, Barton Grange, Cowells, Perrywood, Munros and Fron Goch
  • Hoping for sunshine – HTA Column
  • What’s driving future gardening? – GIMA Column.
Read the issue on-line here
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