In This Issue
Half-year report revealed by GTN Bestsellers
Double celebration for Clematis ‘Beautiful Bride’
12 golds handed out at the New Plant Awards
Parker’s Nurseries win Best Plant Display
Get ready to Plan it, Plant it again this Autumn!
Outstanding Support for GIMA Awards
Enormous deck chair is the focal point for Frosts' summer activities
Bents works hard to attract gardeners of tomorrow
Growing media volumes move in the right direction
Floramedia develops ‘Live Life in your Garden’ concept
Slug control products still selling well
Woman driver fined for crashing into Aylsham Garden Centre
Gardeners Kitchen and Quantil dominate veg sales
Wasps are the most hated garden bug
New Plant of the Month calendar for 2014
Chris retires after 25 years at Millbrook Garden Centre
Slug pellet warning to dog owners
Monkton Elm donates seeds to university project
GTN Bestsellers - garden centre sales data every week
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
 

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Half-year report revealed by GTN Bestsellers


We've reached the half-year point and the GTN Bestsellers 'professor' has issued his report on garden centre retail sales...
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Double celebration for Clematis ‘Beautiful Bride’


Clematis ‘Beautiful Bride’ from New Leaf Plants, with its stunning large white flowers, won two major awards at the HTA National Plant Show, which took place at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, this week...
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12 golds handed out at the New Plant Awards
 
This year’s New Plant Awards awards, sponsored by the RHS, attracted over 90 entries with the judges awarding 12 gold, 8 silver and 3 bronze. Find out who won what....
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Parker’s Nurseries win Best Plant Display


The award for Best Plant Display at the HTA National Plant Show went to Parker’s Nurseries for their innovative display of plants and takeaway ideas for garden retailers...
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Get ready to Plan it, Plant it again this Autumn!
 
The Horticultural Trades Association will be running its Autumn PR campaign ‘Plan it, Plant it this Autumn’ again this year...
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Outstanding Support for GIMA Awards

Entries to the GIMA Awards for products and marketing are up on 2012 levels...

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Enormous deck chair is the focal point for Frosts' summer activities


Frosts Garden Centre at Woburn Sands is launching the start of its summer activities with a seaside beach weekend, and the focal point will be an enormous deck chair measuring 20ft by 4ft...
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Bents works hard to attract gardeners of tomorrow
 
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Through its 'Ready Steady Dig' initiative, Bents Garden & Home is trying hard to attract young people at primary school age in the hope of encouraging a life-long love of gardening...
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Growing media volumes move in the right direction
We’ve now had nine out of the last 10 weeks where Growing Media Top 50 sales volumes were up on last year...
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Floramedia develops ‘Live Life in your Garden’ concept


Floramedia, one of the UK’s leading horticultural design and print companies has developed a new concept for retailers called ‘Live Life in your Garden’...
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