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Radio 2 Gardens steal the show - and provide great themes for retail displays
Great success for HTA 40 Sunbury Road exhibit at Chelsea following a busy press day
Crocus buys its first bricks and mortar garden centre - and it won't be the last - Chelsea update
24th Gold for Johnny Walkers, Guy Hands with Gemma Arterton, Scotts win Best Discovery Exhibit and other show highlights
Sales explosion of local wine at Green Pastures GC
Exclusively Shows focus on future trends and kitchen needs
Terra Firma props up Wyevale Garden Centres
Woodstock Chimes – excellent quality at a reasonable price
Hopes for footfall to rise in the warmer weather
Evergreen Enterprises lights up homes with Night Garden
BBQs are for life, not just for Summer
Notcutts Garden Centres and Shrek’s Adventure! London strike up ‘green’ partnership
Wyevale Nurseries unveils 5 new plants in Chelsea garden
RHS Chelsea Garden Product of the Year finalists
Kelling Estate acquires North Norfolk garden centre
Rising Stars ready for world famous flower show
Growth Technology Orchid Days are true crowd pleasers
Pets at Glee: an unrivalled profit opportunity
Durstons work hand-in-hand with local schools
GIMA wins silver at the inaugural Awards Awards
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New Senior Executive Director for HTA
Spring ‘hibernation’ hits product sales
Briers invests in new systems for improved customer service
Multifunctional city comfort - these are the outdoor trends of 2017/2018
Cucumbers and courgettes up year on year
There’s still lots of growing potential in May
Businesses urged to get behind community farms & gardens
New route planner on FlowerTrials® website
Bedding Geraniums are 10% of all plants sold
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
Celebrity chef Vivek Singh confirmed for Commercial Kitchen Keynote Q&A
Cotswold Fayre’s Christmas Roadshows are coming to Town
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Durstons work hand-in-hand with local schools


Somerset-based Durston Garden Products has a reputation for working closely with local schools in an effort to instil gardening skills in children as early as five years old and  their latest project involves working in partnership with All-Hallows Catholic Prep-School in East Cranmore.

Durston’s has donated the much needed bags of compost to All-Hallows School so that students along with the guidance and assistance of their teachers can plant and grow flowers as well as vegetables.

“Planting seeds and watching them grow is a basic life skill which I believe all children should be taught” say’s National Sales Manager, Dan Durston of Durston Garden Products. “As a young boy myself, I remember spending time with my Father and Grandfather In the vegetable garden, and being so excited when a flower suddenly appeared or a tomato started to ripen and I was able to pick it and eat it.

With technology in the form of tablets and TV’s, stealing the minds of so any of our children these days, it is truly critical that as part of their education that they learn about the environment and our impact on it,  and if we here at Durstons can do anything to assist in  that process then we are only too happy to assist.”.

In addition to donating compost to local schools Durstons often host school visits to its facilities in Somerset also, so that students can witness first hand how peat is extracted from the ground and then processed, before being bagged and sent off to garden centres and retail outlets around the country.
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