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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Rainer Schubert has been appointed as Burgon & Ball UK Managing Director...

Whilst buying plants may not be as high on the agenda as usual, the great growing weather and people spending time enjoying their gardens is driving record high levels of garden product sales.  Last week’s Garden Products sales volumes was the highest for any of the past six years...

Waste management company Veolia who claim to be the largest peat-free composter in the UK have called for the total ban of peat...

Growing activity continues up year on year. As plant sales are significantly down, a lot of this activity must be preparation for Autumn veg planting, growing from seed and taking cuttings for next year..

Wild Bird Care sales continue to hold up well during the Summer with seed mixes and fat snax making the bulk of the volume sales...

Charlotte seed potatoes have taken the lead when it comes to seed potato planting for Christmas cropping. This week six of the Top 10 Veg-2-Gro bestsellers are Christmas seed potato lines with sales running at 34% up on the same week last year....

Award-winning ‘Angel Wings’ plant now available at Yorkshire nursery, Johnsons of Whixley expands its offering...

Mid-August plant sales dipped to a 4-year low last week with total sales volumes reported in the GTN Bestsellers Epos data analysis more akin to sales levels in either February or November...

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If you missed last week's GTN Xtra, below are the most-read stories...

Wyevale Garden Centres announce today the sale of John Browns Garden Centre. John Browns Garden Centre will be sold to Hillier Garden Centres, the second transaction with the group following the sale of four centres in April. Wyevale has also announced the closure of a leasehold centre, Thatcham Garden Centre...

Thieves used a recovery truck to steal an employee’s car in broad daylight from Wentworth Garden Centre’s car park at Rotherham last week...

The first week of August sees the fifth week in a row where garden centre sales have been up on last year, an average of 18% up, according to GTN Bestsellers...

A West London garden centre based under a railway arch is to open one of the capital's biggest houseplant departments...

The former Wyevale on the High Street in Podington officially started trading as Podington Garden Centre by Cherry Lane last week as the retained team of 40 staff geared up to make big changes...

Squire’s has bought Heathlands Garden Centre in Wokingham from Wyevale Garden Centres, taking the group total to 16...

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If you've missed one of our popular photo tours of garden centres then click on the links below:

• Aylett Nurseries
• Dobbies Edinburgh
• Groves of Bridport
• In-Excess Ringwood
• Kings Garden & Leisure, Sidmouth
• N1 Garden Centre
• Notcutts Norwich
• Perrywood
• Plymouth Garden Centre
• Squires Badshot Lea
• St Johns Ashford
• St Johns Barnstaple
• Stewarts Christchurch
• Whitehall Lacock

RHS Retail Director, Damian Powell, took GTN's Trevor Pfeiffer on a guided tour of the new plant centre and retail areas at RHS Wisley last month...

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