Following on from past Best Buy recommendations on the ClipGlove brand in consumer gardening magazines, Treadstone Garden (Treadstone) have been recognised by BBC Gardeners World magazine for two of their new products for 2023...

Flowerland Home and Garden are one of Buckinghamshire's largest and most popular garden centres, with over 60 years of experience in growing plants and now so much more. They have just implemented WinRetail, the acclaimed Stock Control and Retail Management System from Corby + Fellas, at their centres in Bourne End and Iver...

Taylors Bulbs has presented Royal Horticultural Society Long Service Awards to four staff members. The RHS award is to recognise working in the horticultural industry for 40-plus years. Recipients each receive a RHS engraved medal and a certificate.

British Garden Centres is supporting Garden Re-Leaf Day (Friday 24th March) yet again with the family-run group hosting several special events nationwide to raise funds for this wonderful charity...

The Garden Centre Association has announced that the location of its 2024 annual conference will be Cirencester in Gloucestershire. The event will be held at the De Vere Cotswold Water Park Hotel near Cirencester from January 28 until 31, 2024.

A group of intrepid Bramblecrest walkers, joggers and runners are collectively aiming to overcome at least 400 kilometres of undulating Cotswold countryside in a 'RambleFest' on 2 April 2023...

The countdown is on for the INDX Toy & Gift Show, brought to you by Associated Independent Stores (AIS) – the UK and Ireland’s leading buying group for fashion, home, and leisure for independent retailers...

UK companies are being urged to utilise the many advantages available to exhibitors within the Gardenex-organised UK group at spoga+gafa, which will take place in Cologne, Germany, from 18-20 June 2023...

The Horticultural Trades Association marked International Women’s Day with the launch of its drive to improve equality and inclusion in the UK’s horticulture sector...

TV gardener Danny Clarke will be helping to launch a Rose for Hope at a Hertfordshire garden centre which is raising vital funds for a cause close to his heart – brain tumour research...

Momentum is building behind Water Alive, the new consumer show for fishkeepers, which will run alongside trade exhibition AQUA 2023 in October. News of the event was announced last month and the aquatic and watergardening world has been buzzing with excitement – already over half of the available stand space has been reserv

Mr Fothergill’s is gearing for growth in 2023, targeting new gardeners. David Carey, CEO of Mr Fothergill’s, led a buyout backed by private equity in 2022 and is targeting to double the size of the business in five years...

FPM has won the prestigious Stanley Lord Bowl Award for its exhibit of Autumn Fruits at the Malvern Show 2022. The award is presented for the best display of fruit shown to the RHS during the year at any of its shows...

Garden centres are being reminded to get their orders in for eight new varieties including four award-winners that were launched at the Horticultural Trades Association National Plant Show last year...

Plastics resource efficiency and recycling charity, RECOUP, expands its service provisions by introducing a new Life Cycle Assessment (LCA ) service and its own state-of-the-art laboratory to complement its recognised RecyClass certification service and facilities...

Tong Garden Centre in Bradford has relaunched its butchery offering following feedback from customers. Hearty's Food Hall has introduced a new butchery department in partnership with East Yorkshire-based Yorkshire Wold butchery...

The team at a Bradford garden centre is celebrating after being shortlisted for a national HR award...

In this issue:

• Hillier grows – Interview with Chris Francis,
• GCA Conference 2023 – Big, bold, sustainable and £100k raised for Greenfingers,
• GCA Winners – All the winners from the GCA Conference,
• PATS Sandown Show preview,
• BeefEater – LOFA Member profile,
• Beautiful stonework from The Patio Black Spot Company,
• GTN’s Greatest Christmas Awards Presentations at Spring Fair,
• Pictures from all The Greatest Christmas Award winning centres: Barton Grange, Rosebourne, The Old Railway Line, Pughs, Gates, Longacres, Gouldings, Alton, Groves, Meadowcroft, Brimsmore and Poundbury, British Garden Centres, Pengelly, Blue Diamond, Klondyke, Gordale, Silverbirch, Woodlands, Little Dobbies, Azure, Stratford    , Chessington, Chacewater, Coolings, Sapcote, Wentworth, Perrywood, Garsons Titchfield, Keydell, The Grange, Tingley, St Peters, Garden King, Fron Goch, Ellerker Lodge, Chepstow, Birkacre, Bennybeg,
• Thank you to the judges and sponsors of The Greatest Christmas Awards 2022,
• Encouraging signs for Spring – HTA Column,
• Cash is king – GIMA Column.