You almost detect a tear in his eye as Scotts Miracle-Gro’s CEO Jim Hagedorn, admitting that the garden industry in the UK was more competititve than the US, told investors after last week's sell-off announcement: “This is a bit of a bittersweet moment for us...”
Just in case you missed it, yesterday was Wolrd Naked Gardening Day and the scots in the UK garden retailing sector were the most prolific of partcipants...
As predicted the cold winds blew garden centre sales off course. Volume sales for the last week of April in the GTN Bestsellers charts ending the month up 9.5% on April last year but nowhere near the record high of 2011 or the recent high of 2015...
Brightly coloured osteospermums and begonias that are looking good were among the big movers in terms of increased volume sales reported by GTN Bestsellers last week ...
Garden tools and accessories manufacturer Burgon & Ball helped world-famous Champagne house Taittinger make history last week by providing spades to break first ground at its new vineyard in Kent...
A stunning conference centre built by Smiemans, who have provided many UK garden centres with new buildings, was opened recently at Baarn in the Netherlands.
The Kelkay sales team’s commitment to servicing garden centres has enabled the company to expand deliveries to hundreds of businesses the length and breadth of the UK...
Sally van der Horst, secretary of Fleuroselect in Noordwijk was taken by surprise last week when she learned that a new pelargonium had been named after her...
Thrive’s new chair of trustees, Faith Ramsay, gave up a lucrative banking career and became a garden designer in the interests of her phyiscal and mental health...
Sales of coco lioners accelerated in April, which proved a better month than the same month last year for garden product sales, with the GTN Bestsellers Top 50 index finishing up 4.7% on 2016...
Despite a week-on-week fall, volume sales of growing media were still up by 22% on the same week last year, to reach a record high in the GTN Bestsellers Top 50 Index...
Following reports of genetically modified petunias being sold in Finland, the HTA has alerted the UK authorities to their existence in the UK supply chain for these bedding plants. The orange-coloured petunias pose no threat to people, animals or the environment...
The HTA has announced a special event for the ornamentals sector in July to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the British Ornamental Plant Producers’ certification scheme...
