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Pennells and Fairways are tops in the Midlands
GCA announces top-scoring regional centres
Discover next year’s bestsellers at Glee
Discount retailer reaches 100 garden centres milestone
Wyevale Garden Centres join forces with radio presenter
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Tong invests in extension to award-winning playground
Carol Klein opens winter border in memory of Geoff Hamilton
New Mr Fothergill sweet pea to raise funds for Greenfingers
Safe stolen from Scottish Garden Centre
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Cyclamen topple Pelargoniums as bestselling plant
Gardeners rush to buy plant supports in windy weather
Downturn in the sale of garden compost
Happiness is a garden shed, says survey
Posh sheds are thriving
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Pennells and Fairways are tops in the Midlands




Pennells Lincoln (top) and Fairways Ashbourne are the cream of the GCA crop in the Midlands picking up the 2016 Area Awards for Best Destination Garden Centre and Best Garden Centre...
Full Midlands results and pictures
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GCA announces top-scoring regional centres
The Garden Centre Association has recently revealed its area award winners during presentations held at member garden centres...

See the winners from the GCA Regions
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Discover next year’s bestsellers at Glee


As garden centre sales volumes tail off during August, attention is turned to preparations for Glee next month and new product launches in particular...
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Discount retailer reaches 100 garden centres milestone
 
Leading discount retailer B&M has opened its 100th garden centre in Salisbury and has plans to open a further 10 centres before the end of the year...
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Wyevale Garden Centres join forces with radio presenter


Wyevale Garden Centres have partnered with Radio 2 presenter Jo Whiley to produce their top tips for creating a musical garden. Gardening is one of Jo’s real passions so it was a pleasant task putting together a guide on how to encourage British wildlife into your garden and create the sounds of summer.
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The team from GTN are proud once again to be the official media partners for Glee producing the Glee Planner, the Glee Show Catalogue and the Glee Daily News.
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Tong invests in extension to award-winning playground


Just a year after opening, Tong Garden Centre has extended its children's play area. The adventure playground Grass Hoppers welcomed over 22,000 children over the course of the summer holidays last year and Tong's owners are hoping that the investment in the extension will see this double in 2016...
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Carol Klein opens winter border in memory of Geoff Hamilton






A  'winter border' planted in memory of the late Geoff Hamilton was opened by celebrity gardener Carol Klein this week at the Rutland gardens he created for BBC2's 'Gardener's World' programme...
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Cotswold Fayre highlights the importance of stocking premium snacking products
As the nation continues its love affair with snacking, fine food distributor, Cotswold Fayre, highlights the importance of stocking an array of premium snacking products...
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New Mr Fothergill sweet pea to raise funds for Greenfingers
Mr Fothergill's Seeds has pledged its support for  Greenfingers by naming a new sweet after the charity for the 2017 season...



Above (left to right): Greenfingers chairman John Ashley, the charity's head of fundraising Linda Petrons and Mr Fothergill's general manager Tim Jefferies with Sweet Pea 'Greenfingers'

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Safe stolen from Scottish Garden Centre


The Daily Record is reporting that a safe containing a four-figure sum was stolen from Castle Douglas Garden Centre in Dumfries & Galloway last weekend...
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