Bridge Farm, Spalding, has been bought by Canadian Cannabis grower Sundial Growers Inc. with plans to produce and sell high-quality CBD products globally...

Vegepod believes sustainability is a question of the product’s overall effect on the environment – not just on the initial footprint. So, are the company's plastic pods user-friendly, durable AND eco-friendly? You bet they are...

Primeur won the Sword of Excellence at the GIMA Awards on Thursday night with their Tierra Verde Recycled Rubber Planters. Other winners on a spectacular night of celebration at Celtic Manor in Wales included: Smart Garden Products, Hozelock, Gardena,  EP Barrus, Chesneys, Farplants, Forest Garden, Treadstone, RSW International, Vitax and Westland…

It's already that time of year again when the creative minds and practical brains get together to design and manufacture our 2020 ranges. Garden Pride is working hard to add new and improved products to each of its 10 core categories: Pot care, rusty range, plant supports, climbers, growing, brackets, patio planters, accessories and gift ware, Autumn and Christmas.

Smart Garden Products were voted GCA Supplier of the Year at the GIMA Awards....

Here's our picture special from Thursday's glitzy GIMA Awards evening, hosted by TV  celebrity Vernon Kay. Pictures taken by Steve Burden and Trevor Pfeiffer...

A cheque for £8,000 was presented to Greenfingers Charity at the GIMA Awards. The money was raised at the GIMA Golf & Activity Day in June...

Hillier is to stop distributing plants outside its own garden centre group unless they are grown on a contract basis...

Three more garden centres have joined Choice Marketing. Highfield Garden World (Whitminster) joined from the 1 July,  while existing member Blackbrooks of Sedlescombe has added its new garden centres at Hastings and Lower Dicker...

After all that rain we wanted the sunshine, but not the heat. Sales for the last week dropped by 4% and that meant June overall sales volumes, as measured by the GTN Bestsellers Epos data, were down by 12% on June 2018...

In November 2016 Newspan shared the industry’s shock at seeing Ansell Garden Centre destroyed by a devastating fire.  “There couldn’t have been a worse time to suffer such a blow to our business,” said Ansell’s MD Paresh Raithatha. “We were holding more stock than at any other time of year and looking forward to a busy run up to Christmas. All our stock was lost to fire and water damage, six weeks before Christmas”. Fortunately, nobody was injured in the blaze, although the damage to the garden centre and all its stock was catastrophic. This is what happened next...

Dobbies is seeking permission to extend its 10-year-old Dunfermline garden centre to provide more retail space and improve the farm shop and food hall...

After last year’s brilliant May and June for plant sales everyone said we should wait until the end of June 2019 to make real year-on-year comparisons. And the results are in:  Year to date plant sales volumes are down by 6% on 2018 but up by 2% on 2017...

Fryer’s Roses, part of the Blue Diamond Group, launched two new roses at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival, which closes today (Sunday 7 July)...

All 15 members attending the HTA Ornamentals Committee meeting last week reported they were ahead of budget with strong demand for UK grown stock across amenity and retail sectors...

Squire’s Garden Centres have announced a clutch of appointments, including promotion to garden centre manager roles for two members of staff...

Next week the GTN team are at Solex this week, where we will be publishing the SOLEX SUN during the show...