With Easter less than a week away, the HTA is continuing to lobby government to change the Sunday Trading Laws which prevent garden centres from opening at all on Easter Sunday.
A GTN Xtra survey has revealed that up to 20% of UK garden centres plan to work their way around the Sunday Trading laws and open their plant areas and coffee shops on Easter Sunday in an attempt to pull back sales after the cold spell...
A record number of visitors attended this year’s PATS Sandown, making it the biggest and busiest show in the event’s five-year history, and there was a strong garden centre buying presence over both days...
Tomato varieties are the big movers in the GTN Bestsellers Veg-2-Gro chart, taking the highest climber, highest re-entry and highest new entry accolades this week...
The owner of Redbridge Garden Centre in north-east London, which has been burgled 15 times in 13 years, says he is worried sick after the latest break-in devastated his business...
Haskins Chief Executive Julian Winfield has hailed the Garden Centre Association’s e-learning scheme Garden Retail Online Workshops (GROW) as one of the industry's best ever initiatives...
It has been a tough week for growing media sales as gardeners accept that it’s now better to wait for warmer weather before embarking on any major tasks...
