Gloucestershire garden centre Trioscape is fighting a proposal by Severn Trent Water to close a 2.6k section of the main road outside for five months...
Storm Deirdre may have had devastating effects on high street retail footfall but it didn’t stop garden centres selling as much in total as the snow of last year. Top line volume sales analysis from GTN Bestsellers shows that volume sales for last week were up by 12% on the same week last year and on a par with the week after Easter earlier this year.
The popular garden centre based in Crawley has announced plans for a £15 million redevelopment, with a revamped centre due to open in spring 2020. The work is expected to create up to 70 new jobs...
Christmas sales only held their own with last year as Storm Deirdre crossed the country, leaving total GTN Top 50 sales volumes at 4.8% down on last year. However with a whole week still to go before Christmas Eve there’s still plenty of scope to get sales back up to record levels...
Grovewell Garden Centres confirmed the acquisition of their fourth Centre at Hamstreet near Ashford, previously a Wyevale store, on Thursday and they’re open for business...
Since its launch in 2014, the ‘new’ 350 cover restaurant at Highfield Garden World in Gloucestershire has seen turnover grow every month – that’s 54 months on the trot. That success story looks set to continue apace judging by the aspirations of Head of Catering Andrew Hamilton-Rhodes...
‘Bents equals family and family equals Bents’; one of the main messages to come from recent customer focus groups held by Warrington based Bents Garden & Home and designed to gain a deeper understanding of its customer base and awareness of its popular be inspired privilege club...
A new RSPB TV advert will showcase personal stories from its supporters showing their love of wildlife as the charity celebrates 40 years of its world famous Big Garden Birdwatch. The advert will first air on Boxing Day and features TV gardener David Domoney...
Outdoor plant sales continued to grow at garden centres for the second month running in November according to the Garden Centre Association’s Barometer of Trade report. Sales were up 11.69% compared to the same month last year (2017).
Perennial wants to reach more people in horticulture than ever before. To make this vision a reality, new jobs have been created to support the Marketing & Fundraising team forge links with even more companies and individuals who can help spread the word...
Garden decorations, particularly robins, made all the difference to garden product sales last week, delivering a 25% increase on last year despite the effects of Storm Deirdre...
Storm Deirdre provided a welcome boost for Wild Bird Care sales but not enough to catch up on last year’s snow induced sales levels. With all the decorative Robins being bought, see the Garden Products chart, surely there must be a linked sales promotion for Robin feeds!
Gardening activity dropped off as expected last week but the lack of snow meant sales held their own at 2016 levels rather than the bleak mid winter volumes of 2017. Kelkay RHS Horticultural Alpine Grit Large Pack was the highest re-entry at No 17 in the GTN bestsellers chart.
The leading garden centre group has donated cuddly toy reindeers to a selection of charities and organisations for Christmas. It is hoped that the reindeers will help spread joy to those in need over the festive period...
Following the successful reintroduction of the Bees brand in 2017, G Plants has appointed Adam Pindus as sales manager to help develop the brand further...
Pictured: Adam Pindus with GPlants director Alex Reihl.
Committed staff from North Yorkshire nursery, Johnsons of Whixley, are celebrating a major milestone – after achieving more than 100 years of service combined for the company...
Former Channel 4 News Economics Editor Paul Mason will be joining the star-studded roster of guest speakers at the Garden Centre Association’s annual conference next month (January 20-23)...
With 39 centres out of 145 sold as we approach Christmas, Wyevale Garden Centres appear to be streamlining their staffing levels as they prepare what's left of the UK's biggest Garden Centre group for trading in 2019...
It is with great sadness that the Austin family announces the passing of David C. H. Austin Snr OBE VMH, rosarian and founder of David Austin Roses Ltd. David Snr died peacefully at his home in Shropshire on Tuesday 18thDecember, surrounded by his family. He was 92...
The Daily Mail had some online festive fun at the expense of Bents Garden & Home, in a report by Jan Moir sending up its “wagtastic Christmas decorations”...
Corby & Fellas are delighted to announce that, yet another prestigious garden centre - The Old Railway Line Garden Centre in Brecon, Powys - has installed WinRetail, the powerful, comprehensive and fully integrated Retail Management EPoS, E-commerce and Retail Management System...
Dobbies has apologised to a three-year-old boy who was turned away from a Santa's grotto at its Gailey centre in Staffordshire because he wasn't on Father Christmas's list...
