In This Issue
So when does summer start this year...?
Good news...if the weather had been 'normal'...
Plant food plus weed and pest products in high demand
Devon centre woos gardeners of the future
Bank Holiday doesn't clear growing media blues
Award-winning garden centre up for sale
Veg sales up 33% for Bank Holiday
Wrexham centre wins Bayer display competition
Is Britain's best turned out street down your way?
Town & Country sponsor Greenfingers video
Centre hosts vintage car rally
Top 10 most read GTN Xtra stories of the last month
Coolings share centenary with Chelsea show
Developing a star team
Tim Yeo MP joins GIMA's golf team
The Greatest Awards are open for entries
Register your entry today and win Greatest Awards Party tickets
Planners say no to Sainsburys on Wiltshire garden centre
One hundred plant suppliers under one roof...
GTN Bestsellers - garden centre sales data every week
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
 

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So when does summer start this year...?


Sales volumes over first part of the late May Bank Holiday held their own against last year, but now we need  summer to start...
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Good news...if the weather had been 'normal'...
Despite everything the weather and the economy can throw at it, garden retailing is proving amazingly resilient, as new analysis by GTN Bestsellers demonstrates...

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Plant food plus weed and pest products in high demand
 
Levington Tomorite has jumped to No 1 spot in the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products chart as plant foods together with weed and pest products dominate the Top 10...
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Devon centre woos gardeners of the future
The strong links developed with local schools by Devon garden centre Fermoys are paying off...



 Children from Landscove School celebrating their win
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Bank Holiday doesn't clear growing media blues
 
The Bank Holiday weekend helped growing media sales but volumes still lag behind 2011 and 2012...
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Award-winning garden centre up for sale
Worcester garden centre owners David and Sarah Beauchamp are to retire and put their award-winning business up for sale…
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Veg sales up 33% for Bank Holiday
 

This week’s GTN Bestsellers Veg-2-Gro chart is again dominated by veg plant sales as volumes are 33% up on the same week last year with cucumber plants amongst the biggest movers...

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Wrexham centre wins Bayer display competition
Bellis Brothers Farm Shop and Garden Centre in Wrexham has been named the winner of the Baby Bio/EPIC merchandising competition... 
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Is Britain's best turned out street down your way?
 
Cultivation Street POS at Gordale Nurseries
Cultivation Street POS at Gordale Nurseries
Cultivation Street, launched last month in The Sunday People with the support of the HTA, is a new competition to find Britain’s best turned out street.  Special POS is available to garden centres...
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Town & Country sponsor Greenfingers video

Town & Country are sponsoring the production of a video for the Greenfingers charity's Rosy Cheeks Appeal...

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Centre hosts vintage car rally
 
An Essex garden centre hosted a vintage car rally over the Bank Holiday weekend...
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Top 10 most read GTN Xtra stories of the last month
1.€12m turnover for new garden centre with no outside planteria
2.Waitrose Garden Centre - picture exclusive
3.Ex-Waitrose executive in charge of the UK's biggest gardening club
4.Work starts on £2 million garden centre
5.Fire blazes through garden centre
6.New products are a hit as sales double
7.South Cumbria garden centre boss faces court trial
8.Book-keeper denies £55k garden centre theft
9.There's light at the end of the tunnel
10.Greenbrook Garden Centre features on peak-time BBC News)
See Top 20 most read GTN Xtra stories here
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