Garden Centre Association members in Scotland and Northern Ireland are celebrating after picking up awards during a presentation evening on Tuesday at Simpsons Garden Centre in Inverness. In Scotland, Klondyke Mortonhall Garden Centre (above) was awarded Garden Centre of the Year in the Destination Garden Centre (DGC) category and Klondyke Garden Wise, Dumfries in the Garden Centre (GC) category. In Northern Ireland, Creative Gardens, Bushmills received the GC accolade.

A Milton Keynes-based garden centre and landscaping materials supplier has acquired its fourth centre with the support of a £1.9m funding package from Lloyds Bank...

Thirty tree and plant growers from across the UK came together at the Horticultural Trades Association’s Nursery Network Peat-Free event this week to exchange views, experience and knowledge on growing peat-free...

For another year, Cultivation Street wants to recognise and celebrate all the hard work garden centres do with their local schools and the community...

With hundreds of entries and innovation creating new conversations ahead of the 2024 season, this year’s GIMA Awards have once again proved to be a fiercely fought competition. With the judging having now taken place and the winners selected, the garden retail industry now holds its breath as it waits to find out who will be crowned winners this year...

Highfield Garden World (above) has picked up the Best Garden Centre Retailer of Greeting Cards (Independent) at the prestigious RETAS Greeting Card Retail Awards. Longacres (right) took the award for the Best Garden Centre Retailer of Greeting Cards (Multiple or Group)

The Colegrave Seabrook Foundation is pleased to be awarding their Horticultural Research Scholarship by supporting two Plant Health Undergraduate Studentships 2023 through the Royal Society of Biology...

Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) and Writtle University College have announced a proposal to merge the two institutions. The proposed merger will secure a long-term, sustainable future for Writtle, and unlock significant opportunities for growth and development by bringing together the two institutions’ strengths across education and research...

To support retailers with driving sales of firebaskets, chimeneas and firepits this summer, La Hacienda – part of the AMES Companies – has launched a special Easy Log sales promotion...

Perrywood Garden Centres won multiple awards at the Garden Centre Association (GCA) North Thames Regional Awards and walked away with both top accolades. Perrywood Tiptree was named Best Destination Garden Centre in the region for the seventh time. Perrywood Sudbury picked up the title Garden Centre of the Year for the second time.

The GCA unveiled its winners for the North Thames region during a presentation at Poplars Garden Centre in Bedfordshire...

Wyevale Nurseries is this month offering a free downloadable peat free PDF advisory leaflet to trade customers seeking assistance with the changes to the law around peat usage.

The GCA Garden Retail Online Workshops (GROW) e-Learning platform has introduced five new compliance-based e-Learning courses covering food safety and health & safety. The GCA’s Instructional Designer for GROW, Antony Snow, says: “We are excited to be working on this with Opus Safety – one of the UK’s leading providers of safety training...

There’s still time to get a heads up and see more than 200 new annuals and perennials at the Ball Summer Showcase that could be gracing planterias in 2024.

Wyevale Nurseries is sponsoring five of the ‘Sensory Long Border’ designs at the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) Flower Show at Tatton Park this year...

EGO Power Plus, a technology leader in high-performance cordless outdoor power equipment, has further extended its telescopic tool range...