Over the past couple of years, an increasing number of people have embraced gardening in small spaces, whether it is a courtyard, terrace garden or a balcony, to create a green retreat out of the space they have available...

Sniffe & Likkit, the fast-growing British dog grooming and treats firm, has created two new SKUs to maximise gifting opportunities for retailers across all categories...

After Mother’s Day set a new record March week for volume sales, cooler weather at the start and end of the month meant the GTN Bestsellers volume sales index closed 18% down for March, but year to date up 15% on 2021 and 23% up on 2019...

Plant sales so far this year have matched 2021 levels, despite the poor weather weeks of March which led to the month being 23% down on 2021.

Last weekend (Sunday April 3rd) 11 runners tackled the London Landmarks Half Marathon all in the name of Greenfingers, together raising over £11,000 for the children’s hospice garden charity...

Hannah Powell’s memoir The Cactus Surgeon has been awarded the winner of the Selfies UK Book Awards in the memoir/autobiography category. These national awards recognise the UK’s best indie-published books...

The Blue Diamond Group of Garden Centres are donating 100% of the sale proceeds for the ‘Peace’ rose to the Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal, amounting to more than £10,000 in donations which will be paid to the British Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal and supporting the effort by paying £3,500 for the costs of fuelling 8 aircraft that departed this weekend from Southend Airport full of medical supplies...

With gardening booming and the value of exhibitions stronger than ever, it will come as no surprise that Glee 2022 – taking place in late June 28th – 30th – at the NEC Birmingham – will be a hotbed of new and emerging brands, all ready and willing to build new retail partnerships with buyers from across the UK garden centre network. Here, these new names at Glee introduce themselves and tell us what they’ll have in store for the show this summer...

The Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs Committee has published its Labour shortages in the food and farming sector report highlighting growing concerns for the significant number of roles going unfilled in the farming industry...

A team of 18 employees and members of its key Polish product supply partner from Zest, the garden furniture, grow your own and decorative garden structure specialist ran the Manchester Marathon on 3^rd April in support of the company’s 2022 chosen charity, the British Heart Foundation (BHF)...

Cian Lynch has this month been appointed as Senior Business Support Administrator for the Transplant team at Wyevale Nurseries in Herefordshire...

LAVA-LITE, manufacturer of 100% natural, non-toxic and sustainable horticultural products, supplying garden centres and retailers throughout the UK, is looking to recruit for its team of national sales agents...

Made from 3.5kgs of recycled ropes and nets from the maritime industry, fully recyclable, and having helped to recycle 240,000kgs (240 tonnes) of ocean plastic to-date, it may come as no surprise that the ground-breaking DuraOcean® from LifestyleGarden®, and created in partnership with the Eden Project, has scooped a coveted finalist status at the forthcoming Brand & Lifestyle Licensing Awards (B&LLA) on 24th April...

Two weeks after the opening of the registration of exhibitors for the PLANTARIUM|GROEN-Direkt trade fair a quarter of the available floor space has already been sold. Exhibitors have a choice of three presentation concepts: Basic, Comfort and Premium, of which the Comfort version is proving particularly popular...

Due to COVID-19, GROEN-Direkt could not organize seasonal fairs in the desired form with exhibitors for two years. On Monday 4 and Tuesday 5 April, this was broken and the first major seasonal fair with exhibitors took place: the GROEN-Direkt Spring Days.

Leading woodcare brand, Ronseal, has announced the launch of Ultimate Fence Life Concentrate, its most ground-breaking fence care product yet. ..

GTN’s Greatest Christmas Awards Special Issue - 36 pages of Garden Centre Christmas Greatness.

In this issue:

• Peter Seabrook “Mr Gardening”.
• A record year for Choice Marketing.
• Thinking outside of the box 4 – Pughs Garden Kitchen.
• GCA Awards for 2021. Cultivation Street 2022.
• GTN’s Greatest Christmas Awards. 
  Christmas at: Altons, Aylett Nurseries, Barton Grange, Bents, Blue Diamond, British Garden Centres, Cherry Lane Podington, Downtown, Fron Goch, Garsons Esher, Gates Garden Centre, Hillmount Cheshire, Little Dobbies Richmond, Millbrook Gravesend, Newquay Garden Centre, Pengelly, Planters, Pughs, Rosebourne, Sapcote Garden Centre, Silverbirch, Squires Badshot Lea, The Old Railway Line, Webbs of Wychbold, Woodlands, Kent.
• The Greatest Christmas Awards judges and sponsors.
• BBQ Gourmet – LOFA Member Profile.
• HTA Column – Christmas is here to stay.
• Garden Re-Leaf Day 2022-What are your plans for the Big Day?