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Rising to the Challenge
Garden centres across the country are rising to the challenges of Coronavirus, making sure their customers are safe and selling a lot of gardening products too...
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Trading update from this weekend - UPDATED
As garden centres trade through the first weekend after the move to the Delay Phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, GTN Xtra has been asking garden centre managers and owners how trading has been this weekend and about their thoughts for the coming weeks...
Read comments from Bents, Longacres, Planters, Dobbies, Blue Diamond, British Garden Centres, Stewarts, Bosworths, Fron Goch, Langlands, Poplars and Caulders
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Casual Dining show postponed until July
Following increasing concern about the developing coronavirus situation, Casual Dining organiser Diversified Communications UK has consulted with the industry and decided to postpone the ExCeL London event until July...
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Best week of the year so far for Primula
Plant sales recovered at the start of March after 3 weeks of sales being down year on year thanks to the wet and cold weather...
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Call for stories for Greenfingers book
Hannah Powell, Director at Perrywood Garden Centres, is writing a book and all money from it will go to GREENFINGERS. But she needs your help...
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Shoots of growth for garden product sales
Everything in the garden is growing all of a sudden and that’s reflected in significant shoots of growth in the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products Chart...
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11,000 Mr Fothergill's Seeds Packets to Help Refugees in Kurdistan
Mr Fothergill’s Seeds, with support from the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), has supplied over 11,000 packets of seed to Lemon Tree Trust (LTT) projects in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq...
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Young strawberry plant sales on the rise
Young veg plants made their first appearance in garden centres last week and strawberry plants in particular sold through well...
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Upward trend for Wild Bird Care
Wild Bird Care sales fared well at the start of March, up on the last week of February and up 22% on the same week last year...
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Keukenhof will not open on March 21
Keukenhof Flower Exhibition cannot open on March 21...
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Peat-free compost sales on the up
Peat-free compost sales steal the headlines in the year's GTN Bestsellers first Growing Media chart of March. Westland New Horizon All Purpose Compost moves up to No 2, the highest ever ranking for a peat free compost.
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Christmas Grotto Gift Books
View the catalogue in pdf form
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Rain kept shoppers away in February says BRC
Strictly Embargoed until 00.01 hrs – Monday 16th March 2020
UK Total Footfall decreased by 2% in February year on year, which was below both the 3-month and 12-month average increases of 0.8% and 0.3% respectively, says the British Retail Consortium.
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DCF to fund plant health studentship
The David Colegrave Foundation is to support the Royal Society of Biology’s plant health undergraduate summer studentship programme for 2020 with funding for one of the ten places available...
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Still struggling with GDPR? Try this new book for 'dummies'
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The best of last week's
If you missed last week's GTN Xtra, below are the most-read stories...
Worcester centre extension project beats February weather
Construction work has been completed on an extension at Laylocks Garden Centre near Worcester...
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Work starts on £1.5m Fron Goch expansion after MSC planning win
Work has begun on a £1.5million extension at Fron Goch garden centre after planners at Malcolm Scott Consultants secured permission to extend the centre and increase its parking facilities...
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Melcourt Bag for Life wins New Product Award
The Melcourt Bag for Life won the Best New Product Award at the Garden Press Event held at the Business Design Centre in London on Wednesday...
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Garden Centre Photo Tours
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