Green Magic’s specialised POS display products are still very much in demand by garden centres 20 years after the company first invented them...

Plant sales led the way as garden centres experienced huge swings for the first week of March compared to last year. Remember the snow from The Beast from the East saw GTN Bestsellers recording the worst ever weekly sales for garden centres this time last year...

Garden centre plant buyers were out in force and in positive mood at the Classiflora Open Days last week....

Brechin Castle Garden Centre is seeking a Chief Executive to take full day to day responsibility for running the family-owned two unit catering/retail/ destination business – the garden centre and Peggy Scotts Restaurant, which jointly turns over in excess of £3m and employs 90 full and part time staff...

Jane Lawler has joined the GCA’s team of inspectors. Jane, who has more than 35 years’ experience in marketing and business development, will be responsible for inspecting member garden centres in North Thames, Scotland and Northern Ireland...

Vitax Limited has announced it will be marching forward with its support for a national charity – ABF The Soldiers’ Charity  – for a second consecutive year.

Mark Butler – national sales manager at Vitax; Paul Gooding – chairman at Vitax; Robin Bacon - Chief of Staff at ABF The Soldiers’ Charity and Charlie Strawa – ABF The Soldiers’ Charity.

The funeral of Michael Cooling, son of the founder of Coolings Nurseries, will take place on Tuesday 26 March in Chislehurst...

Pictured: Michael and Miriam Cooling.

Cardwell Garden Centre in Scotland has come up with a Grow Your Own Brexit Survival Kit  to help customers avoid food shortages in the event of a no-deal Brexit...

Bridport-based Groves Nurseries has received another accolade for its award-winning violets...

Hillier Nurseries divisional director Hossein Arshadi says existing initiatives to halt the spread of plant pests and diseases will not work in practice and could lead to a “very costly breakdown in bio security”.

The Plant Pyramid, supported by Peter Seabrook, returns to the Floral Marquee at BBC Gardeners’ World Live 2019, with four new satellite pyramids. The Pyramids will play host to a monumental display of up to four thousand plants, all new introductions for either 2018 or 2019...

One of the world’s leading pet product suppliers, the German based Trixie, has confirmed it will be exhibiting at Pets at Glee in 2019, further cementing the show’s value for pet and garden retailers...

Bird food supplier CJ Wildlife has introduced a range of  flower, herb and vegetable seeds for gardeners...

Garden Re-Leaf Day (22 March), which has raised more than £600,000 since Boyd Douglas-Davies launched the first one in 2011, will help the completion this year of four more much-needed garden transformations at UK children's hospices...

Above: The garden Greenfingers created at Robin House children's hospice at Balloch.

Garden Re-Leaf Day, a 'Monte Carlo Rally', bi-plane wing-walking, a coast-to-coast cycle ride, golf days - and lots of supplier special promotions- are proof of the garden industry's undiminished commitment to the Greenfingers charity...