In This Issue
Cheer yourself up from the "Lockdown Slump" today by joining in with #FloralFriday for Greenfingers
Year on year sales deficit halved in four weeks
Man dies at Westland factory in Dungannon
Socially Distanced plant sales up by 40%
Marlows , Bury St Edmunds, to close due to Coronavirus trading conditions
Adam, Alliums and Princess Leia joined the #FloralFriday Fun!
It’s Time to Grow Your Autumn Plant Sales!
Aquatic firms boosted by rise in popularity of garden ponds
Fire at Cooks Garden Centre
Designing ways to reduce plastic waste: apply for funding
Recoup Conference 2020 postponement
A speedy solution for queuing in comfort
Harness the power of Neudorff’s natural gardening range in time for peak season, says DLF Seeds
BBC Gardeners’ World Live online celebrations start tomorrow
Tuffgrass and Quick Lawn top Johnsons Lawn Seed’s best-sellers as strong demand drives growth
Dobbies supports virtual Rose Festival 2020
ICL puts support behind Perennial & ‘You’re Not Alone’ initiative
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Plant Area General Assistant
Merchandiser/ Area representative
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
New June record for growing media
GIMA announces first virtual Buyer Connect session with Homebase
Pots of Garden Product Sales
Keter Group to manufacture high-quality face masks to help keyworkers stay safe
Double bubble for Grow your Own Veg
The best of last week's
It’s a sell out!
It’s like Christmas, only bigger!
Fire at Millbrook Gravesend destroys compost and furniture
Dobbies sign up on new site that will be the biggest Dobbies in the South West
The biggest week for Growing Media sales, ever!
Garden Centre Photo Tours
Haskins Snowhill re-opens after £15m re-vamp
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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The popular restaurant at Cardwell Garden Centre has re-opened for takeaway orders!
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Cheer yourself up from the "Lockdown Slump" today by joining in with #FloralFriday for Greenfingers

With radio stations reporting on many people suffering from "Lockdown Slump" today Greenfingers supporters across the country have a great way to spread some cheer by taking a #FloralFriday picture and posting on social media just as Trevor from GTN and Adam from Taylors Bulbs have already this morning...

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Year on year sales deficit halved in four weeks

The wetter and cooler weather at the start of June took some of the heat out of overall garden centre sales, not quite setting a new record for the first week of June.  Garden Product volume sales were up by 43% on the same week last year and that means on a year to date basis the garden product deficit has halved from 52% just before re-opening to 26% after the first week of June...

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Man dies at Westland factory in Dungannon

A tragic accident has happened at Westland's Dungannon factory resulting in a mans death...

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Socially Distanced plant sales up by 40%
 

Plant sales were up by 40% compared to the same week last year for the start of June.  That’s great news considering the weather wasn’t so good and that stocks of bedding plants were running out.  Instead gardeners appear to have bought other plants, especially veg plants and plants to grow in pots and containers including herbs...

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Marlows , Bury St Edmunds, to close due to Coronavirus trading conditions

After re-opening on May 20th with a 40 minute appointment only shopping system, Marlows Home and Garden in Bury St Edmunds announced on June 9th that it will be closing down...

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Adam, Alliums and Princess Leia joined the #FloralFriday Fun!

As this week is British Flowers Week, a national celebration of the wealth and variety of British cut flowers, plants and foliage, Greenfingers Charity invites you to join the fun of #FloralFriday this Friday (19th June), by posting photos of your favourite British flowers or dressed in your favourite floral British attire – a great way to celebrate the fantastic work that is being done by our British growers, seed suppliers and designers and at the same time ensuring the work of the charity continues into 2021 and beyond...

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It’s Time to Grow Your Autumn Plant Sales!

Looking for a Pansy which will cascade over the sides of hanging baskets and planters providing colour even in the dullest days of winter? Well look no further…

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Aquatic firms boosted by rise in popularity of garden ponds

The UK’s aquatics and water-gardening industry has been boosted by a huge surge of interest in garden ponds during the coronavirus lockdown.  With the country forced to ‘stay at home’ at the peak of the Covid-19 crisis, it seems many households turned their attentions to building a wildlife or fishpond in the garden...

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Fire at Cooks Garden Centre
 

Award winning Cooks Garden Centre in Stourbridge is open as normal following a fire at their Bewdley Road Nursery on June 5th.

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Designing ways to reduce plastic waste: apply for funding
Businesses can apply for a share of £800,000 to look at innovative designs for products, services or business models that make plastic use more sustainable.
 

The UK Government has published details of a fund that garden product manufacturers could apply to for business projects that seek to better understand the behaviour of customers and users and use that understanding to create innovative design concepts...

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Recoup Conference 2020 postponement

Plastics Recycling Charity RECOUP’S eagerly awaited Conference has become another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic...

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The popular restaurant at Cardwell Garden Centre has re-opened for takeaway orders!

The Patio Restaurant at Cardwell Garden Centre is now providing a range of baking, including its famed scones, strawberry tarts and meringues, as well as takeaway teas, coffees, sandwiches, toasties, paninis, baguettes and ice cream cones...

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A speedy solution for queuing in comfort

Industry construction experts Fordingbridge have introduced their latest product designed specifically to aid the Garden Centre industry...

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Harness the power of Neudorff’s natural gardening range in time for peak season, says DLF Seeds

 

DLF Seeds, the UK distributor for Neudorff’s portfolio of environmentally conscious gardening products, is urging retailers to leverage the full sales potential of the company’s innovative fertilisers and pest controls as peak season approaches...

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BBC Gardeners’ World Live online celebrations start tomorrow

We can’t go to BBC Gardeners’ World Live this year, so it’s going to come to us, tomorrow and Friday...

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Tuffgrass and Quick Lawn top Johnsons Lawn Seed’s best-sellers as strong demand drives growth

Johnsons Lawn Seed, the UK’s oldest lawn seed brand, is reporting healthy sales of two of its most iconic consumer brands, despite the nationwide lockdown that gripped the garden trade during peak season...

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Dobbies supports virtual Rose Festival 2020

Dobbies Garden Centres are supporting Sun Gardening’s virtual Rose Festival. Running from 20 to 28 June, the Rose Festival will celebrate the nation’s favourite flower online with growers, gardeners and kids encouraged to get involved...

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ICL puts support behind Perennial & ‘You’re Not Alone’ initiative
 

Partnering with Big White Wall - Perennial has launched a new initiative ‘You’re Not Alone’ - providing access to free mental health support...

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Sorry it's late...

Sorry we missed an issue of GTN Xtra last week.

 

An accident with a circular saw and a right thumb, followed by a thunderstorm which took out our Internet and IT systems for a week, means we've been peddling hard this week to catch up...

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