Plants sales shine – 5.6% up on last year
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Plants led the way at the end of May with our GTN Bestsellers All Plants Index the only one to be up year on year – 5.6% up to be precise.
The Top 50 Bestselling plants were 23% up on last week with Pelargoniums, including all those bedding and pot ‘geraniums’, up by 22% to outsell the total of Petunias and Begonias at No 2 and 3 in the popularity stakes.
Here is this weeks Top 20:
| The UK Garden Centre Plants Bestsellers Chart | | | | | | | Week Ending Sunday 28th May 2017 | | | | | | | This Week | Last week | Plant genus | Volume Sales Change | | 1 | 1 | Pelargonium (inc "bedding geraniums") | Increase | | 2 | 2 | Petunia | +50% Increase | | 3 | 3 | Begonia | Increase | | 4 | 4 | Fuchsia | Increase | | 5 | 8 | Alyssum | Increase | | 6 | 7 | Lobelia | Increase | | 7 | 5 | Osteospermum | | | 8 | 6 | Impatiens | | | 9 | 10 | Dianthus | Increase | | 10 | 9 | Bacopa | Increase | | 11 | 12 | Nemesia | Increase | | 12 | 11 | Verbena | Increase | | 13 | 14 | Dahlia | Increase | | 14 | 16 | Cosmos | Increase | | 15 | 13 | Antirrhinum | | | 16 | 25 | Salvia | +100% Increase | | 17 | 15 | Lavandula | Increase | | 18 | 24 | Rose | +50% Increase | | 19 | 17 | Argyranthemum | Increase | | 20 | 20 | Tagetes | Increase |
To see the full GTN Bestsellers Top 50 Plants chart every week subscribe to GTN Bestsellers using this link or email karen.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk
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