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GTN October issue - Christmas Awards, Glee Review, Greenfingers garden openings, Christmas Tree advice -read on-line here
GTN October 2025, In this issue
- RocketGro celebrate 5 years
- GTN’s Greatest Christmas Awards 2025 are launched
- Successful Choices – Choice Marketing Conference report
- Greeting cards and gift packaging in full bloom
- Glee 2025 Review starts here
- GTN’s Greatest Food & Drink Awards at Glee 2025
- Floral Thursday at Glee sets new records for Greenfingers
- Glee 2025 New Product Award winners
- T&M – Investing in Retail
- Greenfingers Garden Openings
- The Big Christmas Show kicks off Christmas promotions
- Christmas Tree advice from the British Christmas Tree Growers Association
- Begonias turning heads and changing minds – GTN Planteria
- Horticulture highlights from The Conference 2025
- Your business values and your people – HTA Viewpoint
Read the issue on-line here
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GIMA Buyers Guide & New Product Digest Autumn 2025 - read on-line here
GIMA Buyers Guide & New Product Digest Autumn 2025 - A valuable source of reference for the UK Garden Trade
New Products for the UK Garden Trade for 2025 from GIMA Members: Altico, Auto Pot Global, Avocet Hardware – Greenman Tools, Bees Seeds, Big Cheese (STV), Biohort , Burgon & Ball, Charles Bentley, Countrywide Bird Food (AE James), Durstons, elho, Evergreen Garden Care, Fandango Fire Tools, Fargro, Feathersnap, Formbar, Gardena, Greenkey, Glee 2026, Handy, Harvest Pet Products, Hex Living, Hortiwool, Hunter Stoves, Johnsons Lawn Seeds, Lava-Lite, Meadow View Stone, Melcourt, Mercia Garden Products, Museums & Galleries, Patio Black Spot Removal Company, Phoenox Textiles, PlantWorks, Primeur, RocketGro, SBM Life Science, SealStop, Sipcam, Smart Garden Products, UK Greetings, Vitavia, Vitax, Westland Horticulture, WHM Pet Foods, Woodmansterne, Zest Outdoor Living, GIMA Member Directory, Garden Press Event.
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ecofective® Nourish & Bloom - a New Era of Plant Nutrition
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Sipcam Home & Garden are taking the ecofective® story to the next exciting chapter by launching its latest innovation - Nourish & Bloom, an organic plant feed range powered by natural ingredients...
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Perrywood opens new £8.5 million garden centre

Perrywood Garden Centres has opened its brand new £8.5 million garden centre in Sudbury, Suffolk...
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Downton Abbey star and Greenfingers patron Jim Carter to attend LOFA Charity Christmas Lunch
The Leisure and Outdoor Furniture Association has announced that Jim Carter, acclaimed actor and beloved star of stage and screen, will be attending the LOFA Charity Christmas Lunch in aid of Greenfingers Charity, which takes place on take place on 28 November at The Dorchester Hotel, London...
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Henry Bell Anniversary Dinner

Henry Bell & Co celebrated its 200th anniversary in style with guests from across the animal and bird feeds industry gathering at the Belton Woods Hotel in Grantham, Lincolnshire, for a special drinks reception and dinner to mark this extraordinary milestone...
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Greenfingered gardeners help raise £10,000 from Vitax Q4 sales

Greenfingered gardeners from across the UK have helped to raise £10,000 for national children’s charity Greenfingers, thanks to a popular fundraising initiative driven by Vitax Limited...
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September’s GCA BoT figures show ‘strong start to Christmas sales’
September's Garden Centre Association Barometer of Trade shows a ‘strong start to Christmas sales’ and some ‘encouraging’ figures. From the 13 categories logged by member garden centres, 10 were positive, when compared to 2024, with clothing in the top spot at +12.89%.
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Charles Bentley celebrates 165 years in business with new generation at the helm

One of Leicestershire’s oldest family-run businesses, Charles Bentley & Son Ltd, is celebrating a remarkable milestone in 2025 as it marks 165 years of trading...
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Garden centre group reaches final of business award

Yorkshire Garden Centres – owner of Tong, Tingley, Bingley, Otley and Pennine Garden Centres, plus Dean’s York and Scarborough – is celebrating after reaching the final of the Yorkshire Post Business Awards.
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Latest HTA grower workshop boosts learning and knowledge on peat-free

The Horticultural Trades Association continues to lead work to support and share member knowledge on the transition to a peat-free horticulture. A grower workshop, ‘Optimising nutrition and nutrient delivery in peat-free crops’, was the latest in the HTA’s technical workshop programme, aimed at helping growers with their peat-free journey, sharing both their challenges and successes...
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TV gardener visits J. Parker’s Daisy Nook Garden Centre

Manchester-based garden retailer J. Parker’s welcomed renowned garden presenter Frances Tophill to its recently acquired Daisy Nook Garden Centre in Failsworth to hold a community fundraising event in support of local homelessness charity Petrus, while also inspiring the next generation of gardeners with a free workshop for local school children...
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Tiger marks milestone 20th site with new franchise opening

Woodlands Home & Garden Group’s consumer retail brand Tiger has launched its 20th UK show site, located at Dobbies Garden Centre, Andover...
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Leicestershire tree growers crowned champions

Cadeby Tree Trust from Leicestershire has won the accolade of providing the Christmas tree for display outside 10 Downing Street after being crowned Champion Christmas Tree Grower of the Year 2025...
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Grimsby Garden Centre celebrates 10 years of growth with Navigo

Grimsby Garden Centre is celebrating 10 years of growth, community, and wellbeing under Navigo’s ownership, a decade of nurturing minds and gardens alike through plants, training, and therapeutic activities...
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Bents announces new board member
Bents Garden & Home has announced the promotion of Jo Derbyshire to Finance Director, a move which further strengthens the management structure at the Warrington-based business...
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RHS calls for greater provision of gardens
The Royal Horticultural Society has published a new report that for the first time maps the UK’s gardens – domestic, public and private – and the people inspired to grow in them...
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RHS ‘Bringing Nature Home’ will promote plants as foundation for all biodiversity
Over 2026 the RHS will be calling on the nation to join the charity in ‘Bringing Nature Home’, an initiative that will highlight how plants are the foundation for all biodiversity and how our nation of gardeners is at the frontline in protecting biodiversity and fighting climate change...
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The Fragrance House Group launches new trade website to simplify multi-brand ordering for retailers
The Fragrance House Group has launched its new trade website, designed to make it faster and simpler for retailers to discover, order and restock across the group’s portfolio of home-fragrance and skincare brands...
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Shoplifting soars 13% as independent retailers bear brunt of retail crime crisis
A leading trade association has said the latest Office for National Statistics figures showing a 13% increase in shoplifting offences to 529,994 incidents confirm the retail crime crisis that independent retailers across Britain have been experiencing daily...
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Bring a beautiful border to life with BBC Gardeners’ World events
Got a great idea for a gorgeous garden? Why not bring your design to life at next year’s BBC Gardeners’ World events. Applications for the 2026 Beautiful Borders competition are now open...
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MPS continues as Headline Sponsor for the AIPH International Grower of the Year Awards 2026
The International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH) is delighted to announce that MPS will continue as headline sponsor for the AIPH International Grower of the Year (IGOTY) Awards 2026...
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Snowdrop and spring flower gardens 2026
Enjoy a wonderful early wellbeing boost with the National Garden Scheme. With 175 gardens set to open from January to March 2026 the National Garden Scheme is well placed to offer that wonderful early wellbeing boost...
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The GIMA Awards are SOLD OUT!
450 guests will attend the event of the season at Celtic Manor next month
The 2025 GIMA Awards have now officially SOLD OUT! Tickets for the sumptuous event, which will take place on the evening of 6 November at the five-star Celtic Manor resort in South Wales, have been snapped up by 450 guests from all corners of the gardening industry...
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HTA Market Update: Steady September for garden centres
The Horticultural Trades Association October Market Update shows that garden centres recorded modest but steady sales growth in September 2025, with overall sales by value up +3% on September 2024 and +7% on September 2023...
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The Greenfingers Charity celebrates the opening of ‘The Centred Garden’ at Acorns Children’s Hospice
The Greenfingers Charity has celebrated the opening of The Centred Garden at Acorns Children’s Hospice in Walsall. This joyful, inclusive outdoor space was thoughtfully designed to offer comfort, connection, and inspiration to the children and families who spend time at the hospice...
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Another two garden centres make the right ‘choice’
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Corby+Fellas are delighted to announce that not only did Jacob and Jamie have the pleasure of installing WinRetail at Thirsk Garden Centre this week, but they also welcomed Bay View Garden Centre to our ever-growing portfolio of Choice Marketing customers...
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RocketGro release first TV advert!
RocketGro continues to push industry boundaries embracing clever marketing strategies with the launch of their first TV quality advert...
Watch the 2026 TV advert here
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