GTN Xtra - GTN Xtra – Issue 30 2022

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Perrywood Tiptree and Perrywood Sudbury claim top GCA North Thames honours

GCA Midlands top awards go to Pacific Nurseries and Fairways

GTN Bestsellers: Lighting sales heat up

Technological advances in DIY pest control

Bestselling Bloomin Amazing invests in new technology

Tong Garden Centre group acquires further centres

Making a ‘beeline’ to newly relaunched ‘Queen Bee’ rose

Dobbies and Waitrose partnership launches in Edinburgh

Three mountains in 24 hours – it’s the Deco-Pak for Greenfingers challenge!

Support blooms for Forever Flowers at Pugh's

Poundbury Gardens donates gardening supplies for Kingfisher Ward sunflower growers

Bents judged best in the North West

After Glee its SOLEX at the NEC - Full Preview in GTN July Issue - Read on-line here

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HTA President's video message from the Ball Colegrave Summer Spectacular

Geraniums back to No 1 bestselling plant

Rainy June affects garden centre sales

Lighting up sales

More ornamental growers critical to achieving biosecurity goals

Strawberry movers

GCA members to discuss sustainability and hear from experts during webinar

Heating up growing media sales

Advising customers about best way to revive dried-up lawns

Wild Bird Care hit by heat

The best of last week's

Webbs take over at Millets Farm

Petface partners with Greenfingers charity

Cowell’s, Klondyke Stokesley, Bents and Klondyke High Legh pick up top awards in GCA’s North East and North West regions

Ruxley Manor and Coolings Wych Cross win in GCA South Thames regional awards

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Perrywood Tiptree and Perrywood Sudbury claim top GCA North Thames honours

Perrywood Garden Centre, Tiptree (above left) won Garden Centre of the Year in the Destination Garden Centre (DGC) category in the GCA North Thames region while Perrywood, Sudbury (above right) picked up the accolade in the Garden Centre (GC) category...

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GCA Midlands top awards go to Pacific Nurseries and Fairways

GCA Midlands region Garden Centre of the Year in the Destination Garden Centre (DGC) category was awarded to Pacific Nurseries (above) and the Garden Centre (GC) category award went to Fairways Garden Centre, Ashbourne..

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GTN Bestsellers: Lighting sales heat up
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After weeks bemoaning not having a sustained period of good warm weather and that being blamed for the lack of garden furniture and garden decoration sales, temperatures started to soar during the second week of July and as a result garden decoration, lighting in particular, roared back into the GTN Bestsellers charts...

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Technological advances in DIY pest control
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The market for DIY pest control is growing strongly and most consumers go first to their laptop, phone or tablet for advice. And sales of DIY pest control through online retailers have been growing much more strongly than traditional bricks and mortar. STV want to make sure traditional retailers benefit from this strong category growth in DIY pest control – even if they don’t have a ready-made online solution...

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Bestselling Bloomin Amazing invests in new technology
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To maintain their impressive growth, award-winning Bloomin Amazing have recently invested significantly in new technology for their filling and bagging line with the aim of making the whole process even faster and more efficient...

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Tong Garden Centre group acquires further centres

YGC Group, the parent company of Tong Garden Centre, are taking over the two Stephen H Smith garden centres in Otley and Harden, near Bingley. All of the 100 strong Stephen H Smith’s team are transferring to YGC Group...

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Making a ‘beeline’ to newly relaunched ‘Queen Bee’ rose

Fryer’s Roses, owned by the Blue Diamond Group of Garden Centres, relaunched the ‘Queen Bee’ rose at RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival on behalf of their charity partner, the Soil Association...

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Dobbies and Waitrose partnership launches in Edinburgh

Dobbies Garden Centres has marked its partnership with Waitrose by opening its first foodhall in Edinburgh...

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Three mountains in 24 hours – it’s the Deco-Pak for Greenfingers challenge!

This weekend a group of brave adventurers from Deco-Pak is tackling the Three-Peaks Challenge, all with the aim of raising funds for the Greenfingers charity...

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News from Glee: June 2023 is in our sights!

Glee's organising team looks at key trends emerging from this year’s show and ahead to 27th-29th June 2023 for an early glimpse of what’s in store for the UK’s most important garden centre trade exhibition.

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The first episode of Glee TV is now live!

As Glee 2022 came to a close, GTN's Trevor Pfeiffer interviewed Glee Show Director Matthew Mein for Glee TV. They talk about what was different this year, the great range of products at the show and the impact of young people in the industry...

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Support blooms for Forever Flowers at Pugh's

Pugh’s Garden Village is supporting the award-winning Forever Flowers campaign this year...

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Poundbury Gardens donates gardening supplies for Kingfisher Ward sunflower growers

Poundbury Gardens near Dorchester has donated 30 plant pots, peat-free soil, fertiliser, bamboo sticks and two watering cans to Dorset County Hospital’s Kingfisher Ward, which is growing its own sunflowers to tie in with this year’s Dorset Sunflower Trail at Maiden Castle Farm...

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Bents judged best in the North West

Glazebury based Bents Garden & Home has been named as the Best Destination Garden Centre in the North West at this year’s Garden Centre Association regional awards. The announcement comes in a year when the family owned and run business celebrates its 85th anniversary..

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After Glee its SOLEX at the NEC - Full Preview in GTN July Issue - Read on-line here

GTN July 2022 SOLEX SHOW PREVIEW ISSUE - Inside this issue:

Welcome to SOLEX 2022
New date and new look for SOLEX 2023
It’s all about the plants at National Plant Show
Boosting sales at Gardeners World Live
Alfresco dining with Glencrest
SOLEX 2022 Exhibitor News
Innovations from Sipcam
Trends from spoga+gafa
LOFA Column – An exhibition organisers diary
HTA Column – Words fail Boyd!

Read GTN's July 2022 Issue on-line here

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GTN June 2022 Glee Preview Issue. To view a digital version click here

GTN Sustainability Directory 2022. To view a digital version click here

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HTA President's video message from the Ball Colegrave Summer Spectacular

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Geraniums back to No 1 bestselling plant

As temperatures heated up last week high volume sales of Zonal Geraniums took them back to the number one bestselling plant position...

Rainy June affects garden centre sales

Wet weather throughout June affected sales in garden centres across the country according to the latest Garden Centre Association’s Barometer of Trade report...

Lighting up sales

Garden lighting came to the fore last week as four garden lighting lines re-entered and eight lines were new entries into the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products chart...

More ornamental growers critical to achieving biosecurity goals

The Horticultural Trade Association is urging government to recognise the need to boost the number of ornamental growers if they are to achieve their ambitious biosecurity goals...

Strawberry movers

Strawberry plants, herbs and Christmas spuds were the big movers in Veg-2-Gro sales in the week before the record heatwave...

GCA members to discuss sustainability and hear from experts during webinar

Garden Centre Association members will have the opportunity to discuss their centre’s approach to sustainability with other members and experts from the industry during a webinar taking place this month (July 2022)...

Heating up growing media sales

Even in the build up to the heatwave, growing media sales were 10% higher than they were for the same week in 2019...

Advising customers about best way to revive dried-up lawns

One brand that has the perfect solution – and plenty of stock available for quick delivery – is DJ Turfcare with its RHS-endorsed Recovery...

Wild Bird Care hit by heat

Wild Bird Care sales slipped below 2021 levels year to date for the first-time last week as temperatures started to rise...

The best of last week's

If you missed last week's GTN Xtra, below are the most-read stories...

Webbs take over at Millets Farm

Webbs have completed the acquisition of Millets Farm garden centre from Frosts with the centre opening today at 9:00am under new ownership...

Petface partners with Greenfingers charity

Petface, the pet product experts, have partnered with Greenfingers, the national charity that supports children across the UK by creating inspiring gardens at hospices...

Cowell’s, Klondyke Stokesley, Bents and Klondyke High Legh pick up top awards in GCA’s North East and North West regions

The North East’s Garden Centre of the Year in the Destination Garden Centre (DGC) category was Cowell’s Garden Centre (pictured above) and Klondyke Stokesley Garden Centre in the Garden Centre (GC) category. In the North West, Bents Garden and Home (DGC) and Klondyke High Legh Garden Centre (GC) received the accolade...

Ruxley Manor and Coolings Wych Cross win in GCA South Thames regional awards

The title of Garden Centre of the Year in the Destination Garden Centre (DGC) category in the South Thames region went to Ruxley Manor Garden Centre and the Garden Centre (GC) category award went to Coolings Wych Cross...

PP8 Marketing - Your seed to marketing growth
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PP8 Marketing’s Paula Parker is no stranger to Glee. This year was in fact her 15th attendance. Whether running projects for Scotts Miracle-Gro (now Evergreen Garden Care), Southern Trident or the Retail Lab @Glee for Hyve and the HTA, she’s been there. It’s safe to say Paula lives and breathes the horticultural sector!