Renowned hospitality professional, Robert Cook, has joined Dobbies as a board advisor to support the strategic development of its restaurant business...

Corby + Fellas are delighted with the successful launch of Yorkshire Garden Centre Group's Green Card Loyalty App. Both YGC and C+F have worked incredibly hard to design, develop and deploy this fantastic App! As you can see from YGC Managing Director Mark Farnsworth comments below, their launch has been very impressive indeed.

From bats to worms right through to weed control and tree planting, the 11 GCA and Westland Rising Stars for 2024 are already making headway into their retail projects. All have a focus on sustainability and regeneration and, for the first time, they unveiled their ideas to the group at a meeting held at NIAB, in Cambridgeshire.

The Barometer of Trade figures from the Garden Centre Association for March 2024 have been revealed today (April 19, 2024) and are ‘very strong’ when compared with the same month last year...

As the Greenfingers Dragon Boat Race fast approaches, the team has revealed more about what paddlers – and spectators – can expect from this adrenaline fuelled day!

When: Join in the fun on Sunday 23rd June 2024, with the first race earmarked to start at 10:30am

Where: Grendon Lakes, Northamptonshire.

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The Horticultural Trade Association (HTA) released its April 2024 Market Update, showing that despite another wet and rainy month in March, garden centre sales surged by +22% compared to March 2023, helped by the earlier Easter. Catering sales were also up by +17%. Consumer confidence also remained stable from February, showing a +15-point increase over March 2023...

Another year and another fantastic Garden Re-Leaf Day complete!  Taking place on 15th March, individuals, brands, companies and Greenfingers supporters all came together to ensure that this year’s FUNdraising event was bigger and better than ever...

A shift in consumer behaviour over the past few years now means many gardeners are increasingly searching for ways to rewild their outdoor spaces and make them beneficial for nature. As part of Hedgehog Awareness Week, taking place from 5-11 May, Gardman, part of Westland Horticulture, is urging garden centres to ensure they have a varied range of products in store that inspire consumers to provide nature with a home...

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...

In its 30th year of awarding scholarships to students studying horticulture in the UK or Ireland, the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation bursaries are always sought after, but a record breaking number of applications made the task of selecting this year’s Colegrave Seabrook Foundation scholarships a particularly difficult one...

Haskins Snowhill Garden Centre, Crawley, is celebrating the success of restaurant supervisor, Adam Kelly, who recently won the regional heats of Costa Coffee UK’s Barista of the Year competition to progress to the UK and Ireland final...

The team at a Bradford-headquartered garden centre group is celebrating after winning a national HR award for the second consecutive year...

Members of the Scottish Gardening and Horticulture Cross-Party Group (CPG) have written a joint letter to three Ministers advocating for the health benefits of horticulture and gardening in healthcare settings. The letter emphasises the role of environmental horticulture in enhancing health outcomes and urges policymakers to provide sustained funding for therapeutic horticulture initiatives...

The Pelargonium for Europe (PfE) marketing initiative aims to improve the image of geraniums and promote their sale. To achieve this, PfE combines consumer campaigns with offers specifically for the garden retail trade...

The UK’s largest retail marketplace for Home, Gift & Fashion, Autumn Fair returns on the 1-4 September at NEC Birmingham offering retailers the opportunity to elevate their gifting game with over 800 quality exhibitors...

Leading battery-powered outdoor power equipment specialist, EGO Power Plus, is launching a new product range aimed at landscaping and groundscare professionals...

New Products for the UK Garden Trade for 2024 from GIMA Members: AMES Apta, AMES Home Delivery, AMES Tools, Auto Pot Global, Azpects, Bulldog Tools, CJS Display, Coir Products, Durstons, Edelman, elho, Evergreen Garden Care, Fargro, Forest Garden, Gardena, Handy Distribution, Glee, Hortiwool, Hozelock, Johnsons Lawn Seeds, Leon Boots, Museums & Galleries, PlantWorks, Primeur, Pot Mate, SharkNinja, The Solar Centre, Treadstone, UK Greetings, Vitavia, Westland Horticulture, Witt UK & Ireland, Woodmansterne, Zest Outdoor Living & GIMA Member Directory.