In This Issue
Drive sales this Garden Re-Leaf Day with a Greenfingers product display - over 100 garden centres already signed up for a FUNdraising event
More names sign up to the 2020 Garden Re-Leaf Sponsored Walk & Cycle Challenge
February sales down by 22% - GTN Bestsellers EPOS data analysis
Work starts on £1.5m Fron Goch expansion after MSC planning win
Melcourt Bag for Life wins New Product Award
Notcutts St Albans celebrates official opening of new-look garden centre and restaurant
Christmas comes early for Greenfingers thanks to Primeur’s latest fundraising donation
Taylors Bulbs make donation to The Greenfingers Charity
Sandy Powell's star-signed suit will help save Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage and garden for the nation
Worcester centre extension project beats February weather
Cobra commits to cordless evolution
New HTA campaign revives autumn planting message
Squire's donates 300 silver birches for local green spaces
Fun plans for Children's Gardening Week
TV's Katie teams up with Tong for fourth year
Quality audience shines through at Classiflora Open Days
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Mairi Devlin joins British Garden Centres
Growing Media 5% higher than average for February
Business Person of the Year Award for Hillmount's Robin Mercer
Wyevale Nurseries granted licence to propagate Lomandra ‘White Sands’
Better than Beast from the East...just!
Ex-Miracle-Gro man cancels early retirement to back Natural Grower's sales drive
Garden Products down by 18% on last year
Darlac appoints JBM Sales to cover south-west
Wet February sends veg sales down by 20%
Dobbies sign up with SmartPlant
February Wild Bird Care sales down again
HTA launches industry e-learning app
More emphasis on growers' role at next Plantarium
The best of last week's
Tackling the big garden industry issue: growing media and peat...what happens next?
Garden centre boss who stole almost half a million pounds has hearing adjourned
Gina and John heading to Monte Carlo in £500 banger
Great start to a new season for Durstons
Garden Centre Photo Tours
Christmas Grotto Gift Books
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Buy your subscription to GTN Bestsellers
Woodworks Garden Centre Cafe wins prestigious award
Tasty opportunity for garden centre catering teams
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Drive sales this Garden Re-Leaf Day with a Greenfingers product display - over 100 garden centres already signed up for a FUNdraising event

With Garden Re-Leaf Day only 5 days away (Friday, 13th March) now is the perfect time for garden retailers to think about how they’ll be supporting the annual fundraising event. Over 100 garden centres and have so far confirmed their involvement in the FUNdraising day...

 

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More names sign up to the 2020 Garden Re-Leaf Sponsored Walk & Cycle Challenge

The 2020 Garden Re-Leaf Sponsored Walk and Cycle Challenge on Friday (13th March) is hotting up with several new names signing up to take part in the event, including some fabulous brands supporting with sponsorship...

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February sales down by 22% - GTN Bestsellers EPOS data analysis

The wettest February on record across the country dented garden centre sales but they weren’t as bad as February 2018 when The Beast from the East hit the UK...

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Work starts on £1.5m Fron Goch expansion after MSC planning win

Work has begun on a £1.5million extension at Fron Goch garden centre after planners at Malcolm Scott Consultants secured permission to extend the centre and increase its parking facilities...

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Melcourt Bag for Life wins New Product Award

The Melcourt Bag for Life won the Best New Product Award at the Garden Press Event held at the Business Design Centre in London on Wednesday...

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Notcutts St Albans celebrates official opening of new-look garden centre and restaurant

 

Notcutts St Albans Garden Centre in Smallford has hosted a grand opening event to celebrate its new restaurant and improved look following an extensive refurbishment project...

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Christmas comes early for Greenfingers thanks to Primeur’s latest fundraising donation

Primeur presented the Greenfingers team with a special fundraising cheque for a phenomenal £4,000 at the annual Garden Press Event on Wednesday, after raising money from the sales of the company’s Christmas Glitter Coir Doormat...

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Taylors Bulbs make donation to The Greenfingers Charity
 

As part of their Centenary celebrations in 2019, Taylors donated £5 for every bag of daffodils supplied as part of the "Little Daffodils" initiative and this has resulted in a magnificent £4,595 being raised for The Greenfingers Charity...

 

Pictured: George Gruitt, who planted his "Little Daffodils" with the help of Langlands Garden Centre in Shiptonthorpe, North Yorkshire.

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Sandy Powell's star-signed suit will help save Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage and garden for the nation

British costume designer and three-times Oscar winner Sandy Powell is to donate the cream calico suit she wore to the 2020 Critics’ Circle, Bafta and Oscar ceremonies to raise funds for Art Fund’s £3.5million campaign to save Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage for the nation...

 

Pictured: Tilda Swinton and Sandy Powell at the launch of the auction.

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Worcester centre extension project beats February weather

Construction work has been completed on an extension at Laylocks Garden Centre near Worcester...

 

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Woodworks Garden Centre Cafe wins prestigious award

The Woodworks Garden Centre Café has been announced as Café of the Year 2019 by the Chester and North Wales Cyclists’ Touring Club...

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Tasty opportunity for garden centre catering teams

Garden centre restaurant teams are expected to be among the 5,000 attendees at the Casual Dining show at ExCeL London later this month (25-26 March)...

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Cobra commits to cordless evolution

Cobra has announced the first step towards a more sustainable future by pledging to phase out petrol power in favour of cordless technology...

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New HTA campaign revives autumn planting message
 

The HTA will aim to get the nation planting this Autumn with its ‘million planting moments’ campaign...

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Squire's donates 300 silver birches for local green spaces

Squire’s Garden Centres has donated 300 silver birch trees to local parks and green spaces as part of its ‘Love Where You Live’ campaign...

 

 

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Fun plans for Children's Gardening Week
 

Preparations are under way for this year’s National Children’s Gardening Week in May, which promotes gardening and encourages garden centres across the UK to hold events...

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TV's Katie teams up with Tong for fourth year

Tong Garden Centre at Bradford has partnered with Leeds based garden designer and ITV's Love Your Garden presenter Katie Rushworth for a fourth consecutive year...

 

 

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Quality audience shines through at Classiflora Open Days

The wind, rain and fears over Coronavirus didn't deter buyers from attending and spending at the Classiflora Open Days last week...

 

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